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"Don't joke about it!" cried his father. "Don't, don't, don't, Jemmy! Did they try her again? They couldn't! They durs'n't! Nobody can be tried twice over for the same offense." "Pooh! pooh! she could be tried a second time for a second offense," retorted Bashwood the younger "and tried she was. The day before the inquest a locked drawer in Mr.
"My! but didn't Grandmother take on something awful! She ordered me out of her sight up to my little bedroom till Grandfather should come home. I sat there listening to her wailing and moaning and asking the dear Mother of God what she had done that such a cruel, cruel misfortune should have befallen her. Poor Granny! Mother Roberts, I was longing to go down and comfort her, but I durs'n't.
There's the baby took ever so much worse. She can't hardly fetch her breath, poor lamb! And I want some more stuff to rub her chest with. I durs'n't leave her to go so far as Dinham myself for it." "Can't you send one of the boys?" said Iris, much interested and full of sympathy. "Bless you, missie, they're all at school. I've no one only the three little uns at home. Well, I must go back.
She raised a haggard face, its youthful beauty distorted by horror, its pallid cheeks stained with mire, and I blenched before the look in these wide eyes. "Don't touch me!" she whispered hoarsely. "Don't look at me I can't abide it go away let me die " "Child, where is your home?" "None!" she whispered. "None! I durs'n't go back ... now.
Sure the back o' me's brack entirely," said O'Riley, as he re-arranged himself with a look of comfort that belied his words. "Och, there ye go again," he cried, as the sledge suddenly fell about six inches from a higher level to a lower, where the floe had cracked, causing the teeth of the whole party to come together with a snap. "A man durs'n't spake for fear o' bitin' his tongue off."
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