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"All right, Capp'n," answered the imp, "I'll go to Guy's Hospital d'rectly and 'ave three-fourths of it ampitated." "Do," said the Captain, somewhat sternly, "an' ask 'em to attach a brake to the bit that's left. "Now, lad," he continued, "you've got a very dirty face." Gillie nodded, with his lips tightly compressed to check utterance. "And a very ragged head of hair," he added.
"Um," mused the colonel. "Too bad it isn't the trout season. That passage from Walton just naturally makes me hungry for the speckled beauties. But I can wait. Meanwhile we'll see what else the stream holds. Shag, are you coming?" "Yes, sah! Comm' right d'rectly, sah! Yes, sah, Colonel!" and Shag shuffled along the porch with the fishing tackle.
They especially warned her against stopping anywhere near Island 37. "They're bad there and mean." Despard shook his head, gravely. "I won't stop in there," Nelia promised. "River folks anybody can get along with, but those Up-the-Bankers!" "Hit's seo," Jet cried. "They don't have no feelings for nobody." "You'll be dropping on down?" Nelia asked. "D'rectly!" Cope admitted.
"One night we cum onto half a dozen fellows skulkin' in de woods, an' at fust dey made fight, but d'rectly dey know'd we was friends, fur dey was some more Linkum sojers, an' dey'd lost dere way, or ruther, dey know'd where dey was, but dey didn't know how to git way from dere.
I've got to make Leonville before two." The girl gave a final angry flick at an imaginary crumb and flounced off in the direction of the kitchen. The next moment her shrill voice was heard addressing the cook. "Mr. Grey wants his breakfast sharp, Molly. Dish it up. If it ain't done it's his look-out. There's no pleasing some folks. I s'pose Mr. Chillingwood'll be along d'rectly.
Fred that's her American aunt was regular pestered with 'em coming beggin' of her for their churches and their windows and their schools and their infants and their poor, lame, blind, sick of all sorts, as well as for theirselves. D'rectly they knew she was a millionaire lady' they 'adn't got but one thought how to get some of the millions out of her.
"Prudence, my girl," went on the farm-wife, as soon as Alice's back was turned, "just open that other," pointing to a blue envelope. "The postmark reads Ainsley. I take it, it's from young Robb Chillingwood. Maybe it's to say as he'll be along d'rectly." Prudence picked the last letter up. "It is hot in here, mother; I wonder you can stand it." Her mother looked up over her spectacles.
"There seems to be somebody moving below; and if the skipper sees you, you're done. He's a regular Tartar, and he's got a brother what's a sergeant-major in the army. He'd give you up d'rectly if he spotted you." "I'm off," said Smith; and with long, cat-like strides he disappeared swiftly below.
"We'll have done d'rectly, darling," said the clown tenderly; "only one more turn, and then we'll leave you to rest quietly for some hours. Now, then, here we are again!" he added, bounding into the middle of the room with a wild laugh. "Come along, Jim, try that jump once more."
"I'll settle with you directly. Groundhog, have you got a nigger in the wagon?" "No, sir," replied the teamster. "Didn't you have' one?" Groundhog looked up and caught Shorty's eye fixed unflinchingly on him. "I b'lieve that one did git on," he stammered, "but he got off agin d'rectly. I didn't notice much about him. My mules wuz very bothersome all the time.
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