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"Let us go, then; let us do what you thought to do 'fore faither comed forward so kind. Let us go away to furrin paarts, even now." "I doubt if he'd let me go. 'T is mouse an' cat for the minute. Leastways so he's thought since he talked to 'e. But he'll knaw differ'nt 'fore he lies in his bed to-night. Must be cut an' dried an' settled." "Be slow to act, Will, an' "
"Said his doctor had ordered him to quit town under an hour, owing to a comin' attack of hay fever, and he had a friend from furrin parts waitin' him at the Springs, Rosey," explained Nott, hesitating between his desire to avoid his daughter's eyes and his wish to observe her countenance. "Was he worse? I mean did he look badly, father?" inquired Rosey thoughtfully. "I reckon not exackly bad.
July Tenth. This sort of life is decidedly dull. The program of every day is the same. I go to the sandshore with Aunt Martha and Mrs. Saxby in the morning, read to Aunt in the afternoons, and mope around by my disconsolate self in the evenings. Mrs. Blake has lent me, for shore use, a very fine spyglass which she owns. She says her "man" brought it home from "furrin' parts" before he died.
I am usually wrong and my memory is always weak, but this particular impression persists, nevertheless." Long Jim opened his mouth in wonder. "'Pears strange to me," he said, "that a furrin man kin pick more big words out uv our language, an' rope 'em together than we kin." Lieutenant Diégo Bernal smiled. He was pleased. "I learned English when I was a boy," he said, "and now it serves me well.
Still, she did not hesitate about beginning the skirmish, for her tongue was already a bit loosened. "Wot's dis yer, Mrs. Kinzer, 'bout sendin' away my Dick to a furrin 'cad'my? Isn't he most nigh nuff sp'iled a'ready?" "Oh, it's all arranged, nicely. Miss Foster and I only came over to see what we could do about getting his clothes ready.
"What in thunder " Bill Adams came groping between the kegs. "Step an' bar the outer door, ye nincom! Can't you see? There's been a run o' goods; an' while that Coyne sat stuffin' us up with his ghosts, his boys were down below here loadin' us up with neat furrin sperrits loadin' us up, mark you. My blessed word, the fun we'll have wi' that Coyne to-morrow!" Mr.
At this there fell a strange silence during which every eye was fixed on me in somewhat disconcerting fashion, feet shuffled, heads were scratched. "Ax your pardon, sir " said the red-faced man at last, rasping shaven chin with tankard rim, "but if you could manage to talk a little less furrin' more plain English-like?" "I mean I will buy more beer for you and any one else who "
Polymathers's library, though he displayed them with some complacency, reading out here and there a sonorous "furrin" phrase, at which his audience said, "More power," and "Your sowl to glory," and the like. It was when he handled the shabbiest of the volumes, with broken backs and edges all curling tatters, that his touch grew caressing.
"So, you've been sneakin' around through the woods a-spyin' on me SNEAKIN' AN' SPYIN'," she repeated so searingly that Dave looked at the ground suddenly, picked up a pebble confusedly and shot it in the water. "I had a mighty good reason," he said doggedly. "Ef he'd been up to some of his furrin' tricks " June stamped the ground. "Don't you think I kin take keer o' myself?" "No, I don't.
Williams had been there too anyway, there was no knowing that she hadn't, and Ellen Alce didn't look the sort that ud go to a furrin place alone with a man. Mrs. Vine had seen her through the parlour window, and her face was as white as chalk not a scrap of paint on it. Mr. Southland had met her on the Brodnyx Road, and she had bowed to him polite and stately no shrinking from an honest man's eye.
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