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"And why not, old saltwater?" inquired Ben, turning a quid in his mouth. "'Cos there's a gale a-getting up as'll perwent you, young freshwater," replied the tar. "It must look sharp then, or I shall give it the slip," laughed Ben: "the gale never yet blowed as could perwent my crossing the Thames. The weather's been foul enough for the last fortnight, but I've never turned my back upon it."
The tune crept into Ned's blood and his hand beat time on the stone sill. But the music increased his longing for liberty. His thoughts passed away from the narrow street and the marching regiment to the North, to the wild free plains beyond the Rio Grande. It was there that his heart was, and it was there that his body would be. "It is General Cos who leads them," said Austin.
In the course of time huge caverns had been hollowed out by the slaves, in which they lived and slept, never seeing the light of day. Cruel overseers with whips stood over these poor people, who had been captured in many countries by the raiding parties of King Cos, and the overseers were quite willing to lash the slaves with their whips if they faltered a moment in their work.
"I'd understood yesterday as she was going to the openin' of a bazaar this afternoon openin' by royalty; but I got my orders this morning to fill up the tank and come along at once, 'cos she was going out into the country. 'Ow's that ferret of mine going on?" "First class," said the gardener.
They sailed into the Ægean, took Rhodes, plundered Cos, and returned loaded with booty. Muaviah, elated with these successes, planned a great combined land and water expedition against the Christian capital. At this point it is worth pausing to consider what the fighting ship of this period was like. As we have seen in the preceding chapter the Roman navy sank into complete decay.
Finally, after some discursive remarks about the crops and politics, he asked, in an offhand, disinterested manner, as though the thought had just occurred to him: "Mistah Wright, w'ile's we 're talkin' 'bout law matters, what do it cos' ter git a defoce?" "That depends upon circumstances. It is n't altogether a matter of expense. Have you and aunt Milly been having trouble?"
A considerable force of mounted Mexicans was coming into view, and Smith's opinion was formed at once. "It's reinforcements for Cos," he cried. "We heard that Ugartchea was going to bring fresh troops from Laredo, and that he would also have with him mule loads of silver to pay off Cos' men. We'll just cut off this force and take their silver. We'll ride to Bowie!"
"For it's got to be well done," he says, "and even when you're fagged out, you must keep on rubbing hard." You'll say to me, 'Why don't they have electricity that lights itself? It's 'cos that costs money and they get paraffin for next to nothing, it seems, through a big firm 'at they're in with up yonder.
At the door of a small room in one of the houses stood a girl of some ten or eleven years old, looking out anxiously as if in expectation of some one, turning every now and then to address a word to her mother, who lay in the small room on a bed in the corner. "He baint a-comin' yet," she said, "'cos I knows his step; but he'll be 'long soon ye see if he don't!
"Why not?" said Sam, regarding him with glassy eyes. "We came out fin' 'im!" "Cos it's dark, for one thing," said the cook. Sam laughed scornfully. "Come on!" said Dick, catching him by the arm again. "I come out fin' cap'n, cap'n fin' 'im," said Sam. "I'm not goin' back 'thout 'im."
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