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To see the very spot where Moses stood and talked to the Almighty face to face. It is only three hundred milds from Suez. We sailed directly over the place where the Israelites passed over dry shod whilst their enemies, the Egyptians, wuz overwhelmed by the waters. The persecuted triumphant and walkin' a-foot into safety, while Tyranny and Oppression wuz drownded.
"Just fill that mug up with lukewarm water, William, will you?" "To the wery top, sir? Why the milk will be drownded!" "Serve it right for being so dear!" Squeers adding with a chuckle, as he pounded away at his own coffee and viands, "Conquer your passions, boys, and don't be eager after wittles."
"An' ef ye do," said Jim, "there'll be an accident, an' two men'll get wet, an' one on 'em'll stan' a chance to be drownded." "Well, have your own way," said Yates. It was not yet noon, and Jim hurried off his visitor. Yates bade good-bye to Benedict, jumped into Jim's boat, and was soon out of sight down the stream.
When he's ridin' a log near the falls at high water, or cuttin' the key-log in a jam, he ain't in no place for blasphemious swearin'; jest a little easy, perlite 'damn' is 'bout all he can resk, if he don't want to git drownded an' hev his ghost walkin' the river-banks till kingdom come. "There was folks on the bridge," Long answered, "but we was the only ones near enough to see an' hear.
Sometimes we'd practice for a hour or so and he begun to get on right well. We visited that way several days, usual of mornings. "Don't the lady ever come down to the boats no more?" says he one time. "No," says I. "Her pa's afraid she'll get drownded." "Does she ever talk about saving the life of anybody?" he ast. "No," I says; "she's used to such things.
I locked it in the pantry, as it seemed frightened and was scurrying about the cuddy; and when we went on deck, I didn't think to take it out, so there it'll be starved to death, or drownded!" "It was my fault as well," interposed Kate, looking quite as unhappy as her sister and the stewardess. "I told Mary to lock it up." "Be jabers!" ejaculated the first mate, "it'll never do to lave it there.
"Yas, suh, yas, suh," Peter went on, "an' 'member dat time you an' young Mars Jim Wilson went huntin' and fishin' up de country tergether, an' got ti'ed er waitin' on yo'se'ves an' writ back fer me ter come up ter wait on yer and cook fer yer, an' ole Marster say he did n' dare ter let me go 'way off yander wid two keerliss boys lak you-all, wid guns an' boats fer fear I mought git shot, er drownded?"
I shall be very glad to remain and see what is to be seen here, and learn Spanish from Manuela." "Or teach her Angleesh," suggested the girl, bashfully. "Certainly. Whichever pleases you best, Manuela," returned Lawrence. "But s'pose," said Quashy, with a look of awful solemnity at Pedro "s'pose you nebber comes back at all! S'pose you gits drownded, or killed by a tiger, or shot by a Injin.
As they trudged on, dripping and feeling bruised and sore, Jem found opportunities for a word here and there. "Thought I was going to be drownded after all, Mas' Don," he whispered. "I knocked my head against a rock, and if it wasn't that my skull's made o' the strongest stuff, it would ha' been broken." "You had better not speak much, Jem," said Don softly. "No, my lad; I won't.
Ody Rafferty pointed to it and said, "Troth, it's teemin' powerful this instiant up there in the mountains. 'Twill be much if you land home afore it's atop of you; for 'twould be the most I could do myself." And as the constables departed hastily, most people forgot the stolen cloak for a while to wonder whether their friends would escape being entirely drownded on the way back from the fair.
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