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'Thank you, I said, 'my only wish is to get out of this as quickly as possible. "He contemplated me for half a minute with an eye like an ox's; remarked 'You'll be a furriner, no doubt; and went on with his meal. "If the feasting was long, the funeral was longer.
On the westward march they had simply dropped behind, and their isolation had left them in a long sleep that had given them a long rest, but had done them no real harm. Always in their eyes, however, she was a woman, and no woman was "fitten" to teach school. She was more a "fotched-on" woman, a distrusted "furriner," and she was carrying on a "slavery school."
As it happened, the station- master was a particular friend of his, and the astonishment of that worthy when he saw the respectable George in such company could scarcely be expressed in words. "Why boar! Well I never! Is she a furriner?" he ejaculated in astonishment. "If you mean me," said Edithia, who was by now in fine bellicose condition, "I'm no more foreign than you are.
Black, who began to see that the strange visitor had nothing of the appearance of one sent to arrest him, said, in a half-humorous, remonstrative tone "Maybe ye're a furriner, an' dinna understan' mainners, but it's as weel to tell ye that I expec' men to tak' aff their bannets when they come into my hoose." Without speaking the visitor removed his cap. Black recognised him in an instant.
"'O, by gor, the butther's comin' out o' the stirabout in airnest now, says he, 'you gommoch, says he, 'sure I told you before that's France, and sure they're all furriners there, says the captain. "'Well, says I, 'and how do you know but I'm as good a furriner myself as any o' thim? "'What do you mane? says he.
"Well," continued Evan, "there was a sort of half furriner aboard. He wasn't a reg'lar fisherman never served his apprenticeship to it, you know, an' was named Zola. The skipper, whose name was John Dewks, couldn't abide him, an' they often used to quarrel, specially when they was in liquor.
I never seed ye afeard of a man afore," she said to herself. "No, nur so tickled 'bout one, nother. Well, he air as accommodatin' a feller as I ever see, ef he air a furriner. But he was a fool to swop his gun fer hem." THEREAFTER Clayton saw the girl whenever possible. If she came to the camp, he walked up the mountain with her.
"Well, if he went to Araby, or was born there, he'd be an Arabian Knight, wouldn't he? The lad's gran'ther were prob'ly a furriner, an' yours an' mine were, too, Trot, if you go back far enough; for Ameriky wasn't diskivered in them days." "There!" said Trot triumphantly. "Didn't I tell you, Button-Bright, that Cap'n Bill knows ever'thing?"
I tell you it took a few Northbourne men to separate them two, and when 'twas done, I don't forget the sorry sight the unfortunit' man was. There warn't no hospitals nor nothin' in them days, and the doctor he had a tough job to bring the poor furriner to, and patch him up, I tell you! 'And the bear? struck in Geoff. 'Did they do anything to the bear? 'Only shot him dead; nothin' else.
Miss Twexby giggled again, and her nose grew a shade redder at the pleasure of being bantered by this handsome young man. 'You're a furriner, she said, shortly; 'I knew you were, she went on triumphantly as he nodded, 'you talk well enough, but there's something wrong about the way you pronounces your words.
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