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Before I could answer, a shutter opened overhead and a voice came sifting down. "O Chad! Mix me a julep. And, Chad, bring an extra one for the colonel. I reckon he'll be yer d'reckly." "Yes, sah," replied Chad, without lifting his eyes from the pan. Then glancing up and finding the blind closed again, he said to me in a half-whisper: "Colonel get his julep when he ax fur it.
Then Thornton let his whisper go out to her with an utterness of caution: "Don't say nothin', Sally.... Walk back inter ther woods ... outen sight of the house ... it's me ... it's yore brother, Ken." For an instant she stood as tremulous as though she had seen or heard a ghost, while in her thin and shrunken bosom her heart pounded. Then she said: "I'll be thar d'reckly.
It was lighted by a skylight directly over the bath. It had no other window whatever. After examining the bath, wishing that I had known of it before eating, I went back to the dining room, where the servant was clearing away the food. "I hope you enjoyed your breakfast, sir," she said. "Yes, thank you, very much indeed," I answered. "Squire will be down d'reckly, sir," she said.
Him an' me come ter an' understandin' then an' thar but he swore ter hold his hand twell we could meet man ter man, jest ther two of us." A bitter laugh came with his pause, then he went on: "I 'lowed you trusted him an' I didn't seek ter rouse up no needless fears in yore heart but now we both knows ther truth, an' I'm startin' out d'reckly ter sottle ther score fer all time."
They do say, though, that school-teachers feels mighty bad when their scholars misses any p'int in public. Well, sir, he took so long that d'reckly everybody begin to git wo'e out, an' at last Sonny, why, he got tired, too, an' he up an' says, says he, "Ef you can't make up your mind what to ask me, teacher, why 'n't you let me ask myself questions?
"That's what I say," replied Evans; "that's what I keep telling myself, but it don't seem to bring much comfort. I'm too soft-'earted where wimmen is concerned, Bill, an' that's the truth of it. D'reckly I get alongside of a nice gal my arm goes creeping round her before I know what it's doing." "What on earth made you bring the girl on the ship?" inquired the mate.
On hearing this the crowd began to diminish rapidly; but the man with the red moustache set a good example by giving his name loudly and promptly as "Oscar B. Mecutchen, tobacconist, d'reckly opposite the City Hall." So three or four other men allowed Mrs. Tarbell to set them down as observers of the disaster.
As they looked in they saw some sailors boozing in a dirty tap-room, and enveloped in tobacco-smoke. The side-door was opened, and a cunning wicked-looking man held up a light to see who they were. "Hollo, Billy," said Wildney, confidentially, "all serene; give us two bottles of beer on tick, you know." "Yessir d'reckly," said the man, with a hateful twinkle of the eyes.
"Ay, he've hed nice games in his time here, lads!" said Dave, grinning with pleasure. "I'm straange and glad you've caught him. Many's the time I've sin him chase the fish and tak' down the water-rats. One day he hed howd of a big duck. He got it by its legs as I was going along, and the poor thing quacked and tried to fly, but down it went d'reckly. Big pike like this un'll yeat owt."
"Row, Bob, row!" panted Dexter, "as soon as we're out in the river we shall be safe." "But he'll be down upon us d'reckly," whispered Bob. "Go on rowing, I tell you, he daren't jump." "You won't stop, then, won't yer?" cried the man. "If yer don't stop I'll drive a hole through the bottom, and sink yer both." "No, he won't," whispered Dexter. "Row, Bob, row!
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