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Captain Shelvocke afterwards came on board the Success, accompanied by Mr Dod, his lieutenant of marines, who proposed to remain in the Success, having been very ill used by the other crew for his attachment to the interest of the owners, at least so he said, and was credited by Captain Clipperton and his officers.
"I'd go my death for that gal, or any other female woman in the settlement, any day of my life. And as she wants me to swaller them words, that was born with me, dod I mean, I wish I may be indeed, I'll be starved to death if I don't do it! only when I'm raven mad at something, and then I can't help it." "Very well," said Boone. "Now I have a request of my own to make."
"I declare I can hardly hold my head up!" said he still holding on to the rope, and keeping pace with the rest, though his head hung down. "Possomin' dod I mean he's jest 'possomin'," said Sneak. "No indeed I ain't plague it, don't you say any thing, Sneak," Joe, added, in an undertone. "I am something of a physician," said Boone, whose quick ear had caught the words addressed to Sneak.
In his new-found philosophy the fact that the interest of his hostess seemed to be excited only by the names of his companions, that he himself was carelessly, and even deprecatingly, alluded to as the "stranger from Eagle's" by the ostler, and completely overlooked by the old woman, gave him no concern. "You'll have to talk to Zenobia yourself. Dod rot ef I'm gine to interfere.
Dod: it's a depairture in poachin'." And as the sight of Mr. Byles burst on his view, surrounded by trustful birds, and the two Dowbiggins trying very feebly to drop the net on a specially venturesome one, the head keeper almost lost the power of speech. "Dinna let us interrupt you," and Mr.
All this time the Doctor created no sensation; even his witty oath, Dod og Pinsel, no longer had any effect. But when Edwarda was speaking, he was always on the spot, correcting her language, embarrassing her with little shades of meaning, keeping her down with calm superiority. She said: "... until I go over the valley of death." And the Doctor asked: "Over what?" "The valley of death.
I expect you've eaten a lot of 'em in your time, haven't you, Mis' Portheris? Now, Mr. Mafferton, you sit here, and you, Mis' Wick, you sit here. That's right, Mr. Wick, you hold up the wall. I ain't proud, I'll sit on the floor there now, we're every one fixed. No, Mr. Dod, none of us ladies object to smoking Mis' Portheris smokes herself, don't you, Mis' Portheris?"
"Thank Heaven, it's you!" exclaimed the mysterious object, coming forward fearlessly, on hearing the men's voices. "Dod rot your cowardly skin!" said Sneak, after looking at the approaching form and turning to Joe, "how dare you to be frightened at sich a thing as that a female woman!" "It was not me it was my pony, you great "
"I cannot possibly wait to be looked for. I must be restored to my daughter! You must make an effort, Mr. Dod. And, now that I think of it, I have left the key of our boxes in the drawer of the dressing-table, and the key of that is in it, and the housemaid has the key of the room. It is absolutely necessary that I should go back to the hotel at once."
Next morning walked round the whole of the cleared and cultivated land, with the Rev. Mr. Johnson, who is the best farmer in the country. Edward Dod, one of the governor's household, who conducts everything here in the agricultural line, accompanied us part of the way, and afforded all the information he could. He estimates the quantity of cleared and cultivated land at 200 acres.
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