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Thanks to you, all the same, an' no offence meant," he added in a gentler tone, turning to the astonished steward, and patting him on the shoulder, "but if you had suffered all that I have suffered through bein' a slave to the glass and the pipe when I thought I was no slave, mark you, an' would have larfed any one to scorn who'd said I wos if you'd see'd me groanin', an yearnin', an' dreamin' of baccy an' grog, as I have done w'en I couldn't get neither of 'em for love or money you wouldn't wonder that I ain't goin' to be such a born fool as to go an' sell myself over again!"
Now I can't exactly believe that if I fell down and hurt my head on a stun I cannot believe as I am a layin' there, that I hain't fell, and there hain't no stun and while I am a groanin' and a bathin' the achin' bruise in anarky and wormwood, I can't believe that there hain't no such thing as pain, nor never wuz. No, I can't believe this with the present light I have got on the subject.
"Yes, and when he was well, too. A habit of his, groanin' was. I don't know why he done it see himself in the lookin'-glass, maybe; that was enough to make anybody groan. He'd groan in his sleep or snore or both. He was the noisiest sleeper ever I set up with. Shall we go upstairs?"
But him an' Miss Mary thinks it's best plan to do a bit o' groanin' an' frettin' now an' then to throw folk off th' scent." Mrs. Sowerby was laughing a low comfortable laugh long before he had finished his last sentence. "Eh!" she said, "that pair's enjoyin' theirselves, I'll warrant.
The first issues of the 'Tinis was not covered in, an' I mesilf have eased the pull av mine time an' agin. A light pull is ten points on the range to me. "I will not have this foolishness!" sez the Colonel. "I will twist the tail off Vulmea!" sez he; but whin he saw him, all tied up an' groanin' in hospital, he changed his will.
Wall, I am safe to say, that nothin' that had took place that day had begun to affect us like that. To see that good little creeter lookin' pale and considerble wan, hand in that plate and never groan over it, nor nothin', not out loud she didn't, but we spozed she kep up a silent groanin' inside of her, for we all knew the feelin' she felt for the plate. It affected all on us fearfully.
"A Turner ain't a Burr," returned his stepmother with uncompromising logic, "an' a Burr ain't a Turner. Whar the blood runs the man follows, an' yours ain't runnin' towards the farm. Jeb Turner can fling a handful of corn in poor groun', an' thar'll come up a cornfield, an' yo' pa may plant with the sweat of his brow an' the groanin' of his spirit, an' the crows git it.
But jest at that minute in come Josiah Allen a snickerin'; and says he, "I have done it now, Samantha. I have done somethin' now, that is new and uneek." And as he see my strange and awful looks, he continued, "You know, you always say that you want a change now and then, and somethin' new, to pass away time." "And I shall most probable get it," says I, groanin', "as long as I live with you.
"It was the barrack talk, sir; I heard them chaps cursin' and groanin' that they were stuck fast in Rangoon and had no chance of gettin' a look in, and says I to myself, what's to hinder you from goin'?" "But how about the passage money?" inquired Shafto. "I thought you were vowed to poverty and had nothing in your wooden bowl?" "I had the ruby that you gave back to me.
When he had left the room, she half rose as if to follow, but stopped half way irresolute, while the cab which he had engaged to take himself and his luggage to his new quarters drove off, and then she went upstairs and shut herself in her bedroom for half-an-hour, and the maid, who was 'doing the rooms' hard by, reported afterwards to the cook that she had 'heard missus takin' on awful in there, a-sobbin', and groanin', and prayin' she was, all together like, it quite upset her to 'ear it.
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