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'Look 'ere, said the burglar, 'I've come 'ere straight outer the pleece station. These 'ere kids'll tell you it ain't no blame er mine. 'Well, you WERE a burglar, you know, said the truthful Anthea gently. 'Only because I was druv to it by dishonest blokes, as well you knows, miss, rejoined the criminal. 'Blowed if this ain't the 'ottest January as I've known for years.
And that persecuted young pigeon that thought herself forsooken, jest skeeted into Cynthy Ann's budwoir afore daybreak this mornin' and told her all her sorrows, and how your letter and your goin' with that Betsey Malcolm" here August winced "had well nigh druv her to run off with the straps and watch-seals to get rid of you and Betsey and her precious and mighty affectionate ma."
Here was Billy, rich and healthy, Jack at college, and ever'thing a-runnin' slick and smooth, when nothin' must do but the old creetur must take to the jug, and it's gone on and gone on, till old Bradley Gaither owns in-about all the Carew plantation that's wuth ownin'. Maybe it was Billy's wife druv him to it, Sister Jane." "I say the word!" exclaimed Miss Jane, scornfully, "I say the word!
Hi! but we uns had ter git out sud'n dough dis mawnin'." "Does you tink de Linkum men git druv off agin?" "How you talks! Aun' Suke. Hi! Druv off! Why, de ridge des black wid um anuff ter eat Mad Whately en all he men alibe. Dey des ridin' troo de kintry freein' we uns."
"Bill Speer up on the hill there telled me jist now, that they druv a big deer down from the back-bone clear down to this here hollow just above, last night arter dark. Bill shot at him, and kind o' reckoned he hot him but I guess he's mistaken leastwise he jumped strong enough jist neaw! but which on you was 't 'at killed him?" "I did," exclaimed Tom, "I did by !"
Why, there was one of them horses never could have run away before; it hadn't never been druv but twice! And the other horse maybe had run away a few times, but there was lots of times he hadn't run away. I esteemed that team full as liable not to run away as it was to run away," concluded my foreman, evidently deeming this as good a warranty of gentleness as the most exacting could require.
"'Cause I didn't want to lose a good customer, that's why I didn't pull up!" "Do you mean to say you don't know me?" "Know yer?" said Clegg, with an approach to sentiment: "I've knowed yer when you was a babby in frocks. I've knowed yer in Infancy's hour and in yer byhood's bloom! I've druv yer to this 'ere werry station twice afore. Know yer!" Paul saw the uselessness of arguing with him.
"The lady's in a fit!" cried a woman, hurrying to Virginia's assistance; "you've druv her to distraction; you shouldn't a ben so abusive; I could hear ye clear into my room a scoldin' and accusin' of her of makin' your match fer ye."
And I hev been a little mite druv up today druv to the limit, if the truth's told. Things ain't been goin' as smooth's they might. Why why, they ain't nobody'd believe what's been crowded into this day, even if I was to tell 'em!" He filled his lungs again and shoved both feet closer to the oven door. "But that fire feels real nice," he finished; "real nice and comfortin', somehow.
He's a better-lookin' man than I expected to see; but it do seem as how his troubles have druv him to drink!" Childhood's impressions are ineffaceable, though they may be for a time set aside. Abraham Lincoln with all his lofty mind, acquiesced in the vulgar belief when he took his son Robert to have the benefit of a "madstone," at a distance from where the boy was dog-bitten.
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