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Came back to our Department, and Pitched into me. Look here. You never saw such a fellow. 'What did he want? 'Ecod, sir, returned Young Barnacle, 'he said he wanted to know, you know! Pervaded our Department without an appointment and said he wanted to know!
One while saying, laughingly, to Nicholas, across the bread-and-butter plate which they had just been emptying between them, "Ye wean't get bread-and-butther ev'ry neight, I expect, mun. Ecod, they dean't put too much intif 'em. Ye'll be nowt but skeen and boans if you stop here long eneaf. Ho! ho! ho!" all this to Nicholas's unspeakable indignation.
I sat gazing at her in love and great awe. "'Tis not a wickedness, Bessie," I declared. "No, no!" "'Tis not that. No, no! I knows 'tis not a sin." "'Tis a holy thing," she said, turning, her eyes wide and solemn. "A holy thing?" "Ay holy!" I chanced to look out of the window. "Ecod!" I cried. "The Wreck Cove skiff is in with Doctor Luke!"
"I'd have flour grow in the ground, mum," I cried, triumphantly, "an' I'd have sea-boots an' sou'westers grow on the bushes. An', ecod!" I continued, inspired, "I'd have fishes grow on bushes, already split an' cleaned!" What other improvements I would have made on the good Lord's handiwork I do not know.
Now he trotted from one man to the other as the group scattered somewhat; now he sat half turned back, his hand on his steed's hind quarters, flinging words and laughter to the outside man. "Thou'lt have to use scissors again on thy periwig, ecod!" one man cried, banteringly. "Damme, yes," the youngster rapped out, and he caught a rich lock of his hair and drew it forward to look at it, frowning.
The pioneer, standing behind his wife, plucked her by the sleeve. "Ecod, Alce, 't is the Governor himself! Mind your manners!" Alce, who had been a red-cheeked dairymaid in a great house in England, needed no admonition. Her curtsy was profound; and when the Governor took her by the hand and kissed her still blooming cheek, she curtsied again.
Green's interest, fearing that Sir Richard might have been on the point of shooting him. The spy went forward to Mr. Caryll. "I am most profoundly sorry " he began. "Take your sorrow to hell," snarled Mr. Caryll, his face livid, his eyes blazing uncannily. "I believe ye've murdered him." "Ecod! the fool shall smart for't if Sir Richard dies," grumbled Mr. Green. "What's that to me?
'And pretty smooth, too, ecod! said Jonas, glancing round the table. 'This don't cost a trifle. 'Why, to be candid with you, it does not, returned the other. 'But I like this sort of thing. It's the way I spend my money. Jonas thrust his tongue into his cheek, and said, 'Was it? 'When you join us, you won't get rid of your share of the profits in the same way? said Tigg.
He laughed and the tension vanished and we went happily back to harbour. I had no thought that the resolution to which he had come was in any way extraordinary. I ran to the Rat Hole, that night, to give the great news to Skipper Tommy Lovejoy and the twins. "Ecod!" the old man cried, vastly astounded. "Is he t' stay, now? Well, well! Then they's no need goin' on with the book.
"I am not squeamish, Lord knoweth! and have no reason to be; but had I known, when I began to aid in the searching, what mire I should have to wade through, ecod! I think I should have said, 'Let ill alone." "But you did not, old friend," said the Duchess's rich, low voice; "you did not."
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