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I can't, I durstn't! Jane pleaded in inarticulate anguish. But Clem had caught her by the arm, was dragging her on, on, till she was at the very door of that ghastly death-cellar. Though thirteen years old, her slight frame was as incapable of resisting Clem Peckover's muscles as an infant's would have been.
"He can read, father. We might leave a note for him on the table, and if he arrives before the robbers that would guide him." "True, Betty; but if the robbers should arrive before him, that would also guide them." "But we're so sure of his returning almost immediately," urged Betty. "Not so sure o' that, lass. No, we durstn't risk it, an' I can't think of anything else.
Allan looks from Jo to the woman, and from the woman to Jo, waiting for one of them to unravel the riddle. "But he was along with me, sir," says the woman. "Oh, you Jo! He was along with me, sir, down at Saint Albans, ill, and a young lady, Lord bless her for a good friend to me, took pity on him when I durstn't, and took him home " Allan shrinks back from him with a sudden horror.
"I'll tell you what," said Ned, in a cheery voice, "I'd give a good deal, Thomas, to see you a total abstainer; it'd be the making of you." Johnson shook his head sorrowfully. "I mustn't; Alice wouldn't let me. I can't; the drink's more to me nor meat, and clothes, and everything. I durstn't, for my old pals at the `George' would chaff me to death with their jeers and their jokes.
He's liftin' barrels wid his teeth, and singin "Garry Owen," Till all the house be strikin' hands, sence Chairley Burke's in town. The Road-Yaird hands coomes dhroppin' in, an' niver goin' back; An' there's two freights upon the switch the wan on aither track An' Mr. Gearry, from The Shops, he's mad enough to swear, An' durstn't spake a word but grin, the whilst that Chairley's there! Och!
I asked, as I slipped about on the floor, for I could not stand there firmly with my great snow-shoes on. "Maning enough, and bad maning too," the Cornish girl made answer. "Us be shut in here, and starving, and durstn't let anybody in upon us. I wish thou wer't good to ate, young man: I could manage most of thee."
Newte keeping the peace between John a Hall, with his ill-regulated tongue, and the old Parson, who, to say truth, was half the cause of their unpopularity, the church services having sunk to a public scandal; and yet they durstn't cast him over, by reason that he owned eight ramshackle houses, and his curate a couple besides, and by mock-sale could turn these into as many brand-new voters.
Crop-headed Puritans durstn't deny His Majesty's gentlemen riding by, With boot and saddle and tow-row-row! 'Good Lord! muttered my host, casting out his two hands in despair. 'More soldiers! But by this time I had my hand on the door. 'Guide me down the stairs, I commanded; 'down to the door! And, before you open it, quench the light!
"That's the first word, old man, as ever I heard you speak in his favor," said a miner, contemptuously; "and you've waited for that till he's dead." "Still, he would ha' gone, and you durstn't," observed the old fellow, cunningly, "and that's the p'int."
"But didn't you see, George," returned Phil, "that a man of them durstn't look me in the face? They couldn't stand my eye; upon my honor they couldn't." "Ay," said Burke, "that's because they're Papishes. A rascally Papish can never look a Protestant in the face." "Well but," said Phil, "you would not believe that the girl was so fond of me as she is, until you saw it.
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