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"I regard you with the most sacred affection; and I thank God I am an Englishman and all that. But not not the police, Gid." "Then you desert me?" said Gideon. "Say it plainly." "Far from it! far from it!" protested Mr. Bloomfield. "I only propose caution. Common-sense, Gid, should always be an Englishman's guide." "Will you let me speak?" said Julia.
Cranceford, standing on the door sill, gave Gid a cool stare. "Won't you please come in?" he asked, courteously waving his hand over the chair which he had just quitted. "No, I thank you." "Ah, I see you are surprised to see me in here. There was a time when it would have strained my boldness, but now it is a pleasure. I am here on business.
But we see them almost as quick as he did, an' Gid and me set down on him suddently, as he was lying on the roof, and took away all his catridges, and give 'em around to the rest o' the boys, one a-piece." "Are they all gone now?" "Yes, sir; every one shot away," answered Harry regretfully. Si looked through several of the boxes and at some of the guns to assure himself of this.
The bloody shirt would wave from every window in the North, and from the northern point of view, justly so; and reviewed even by the disinterested onlooker, we have not been wholly in the right." "The deuce we haven't!" Gid shouted, his eyes bulging. "No, not wholly; we couldn't be," the Major continued.
Well, the storeman tore out and licked Ward till he cried. Storeman didn't know who the old man was till after it was all over. Neither did old Gid know how big that storeman was till he saw him coming out through that broken glass. Otherwise both might have thought twice. "Ward boycotted and persecuted him till he had to sell out and leave town. He has persecuted everybody.
Mother was gettin' him ready for bed and he looked up " "I feel the blood of youth mounting from the feet of the past to the head of the present," Gid broke in. "I can jump a ten rail fence, staked and ridered." "And I'm pretty jumpy myself," the Major declared. "But what were you going to say, Perdue?"
'Well, I call that cool, he repeated; 'you seem to count very securely upon Uncle Ned. But look here, Gid, I thought I had told you to keep away? 'To keep away from Maidenhead, replied Gid. 'But how should I expect to find you here? 'There is something in that, Mr Bloomfield admitted.
"They're good, rugged chaps with grit in 'em. Turn 'em loose in a woods clearing a hundred miles from home and I'd match 'em man for man with any crowd that Gid Ward could herd together. I don't say they wouldn't fight here in their own door yards, Mr. Parker. They'd fight before they'd see their houses pulled down or their families troubled.
Out in the yard Jim Taylor said something in a broken voice, and the Major, madly bellowing, came bounding toward the house. "Margaret," he cried, "Louise is married!" The woman started, uttered not a sound, but hastening to meet him, took him by the hand. Jim Taylor came ponderously walking from amid the black shadows. The Englishman and old Gid stole away.
"The time for saying has passed, and I'm afraid to look forwards to what we may have to do," answered Uncle Tucker quietly. "After Gid was gone on up the road I walked over to Tilting Rock and sat down with my pipe to think it all over. My eyes are a-getting kinder dim now, but as far as I could see in most all directions was land that I had always called mine since I come into a man's estate.
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