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Lord! we've got to get out of here; we've got to get to her. He'll kill them both " Wilson struggled to his feet and plunged towards the exit to the cave. Stubbs was upon him in a second and bore him down. "Gawd, man, h'ain't yer any sense left at all?" A second later he repented his sharp speech, and added, "There, lay still a moment, lad.
"Yes, I walked," she answered; "but I can't set down. I h'ain't but a minute to stay." Her clothes, which had been shabby at their best, were at their worst now, and, altogether, she was a figure neither attractive nor picturesque. But Baird saw pathos in her. It was said that one of his most charming qualities was his readiness to discover the pathetic under any guise. "You came to ask Mr.
He saw his mother's straight neck and head outlined again against the starlit sky the night she stood before him rifle in hand and shot at that midnight prowler. His mouth closed firmly and he spoke with bitter decision: "I don't like coon hunting. I'm not coming any more." "Good Lord, Boy, we got ter have skins h'ain't we?" was the hearty answer. "I reckon so," he sorrowfully admitted.
Tom remembered that this was true, it having been Mr. Stamps who suggested the Northern theory which had been so unitedly scouted by his hearers at the time of its propounding. "I h'ain't stayed as stiddy in North Car'lina as the rest on 'em," repeated Mr. Stamps. "When I was younger, I kinder launched out wunct.
"It's good enough to stow erway ter dream about," smiled Stubbs, catching a warning glance from Beatrice, "but as fer me, I h'ain't gut th' taste of rope outer my mouth yet." They swept back the jewels into the bags and locked them up in Danbury's safe. The latter agreed to take them to New York and see that they were properly appraised so that a fair division could be made.
She had turned miserably pale under Latimer's question. "'Tain't no church of mine!" she said, passionately; "I h'ain't nothin' to do with it. I never belonged to no church anyhow, an' I'm leadin' the kind o' life any girl'd lead that hadn't nothin' nor nobody.
"I'd a knack o' dressin'," pursued the egregious Mrs. Transom, "an' nice eyes an' hair. 'Why, Maria, darlin', said William one day, when him an' me was keepin' company, 'I believe you could sit on that hair o' yours, I do reely. 'Go along, you silly! I said, 'to be sure I can." "He called you darling?" "Why, in course. H'ain't you never had a young man?"
At first she was inclined to resent their coming as an intrusion, declaring, "There ain't much belongin' to the kid anyhow." But, as earlier in the day, she quailed before Mr. Brewster's firm, quiet speech, and sullenly led the way to the various articles called for. Finally nothing remained unchecked on the list except the two trunks. "I h'ain't got no trunks," the woman bristled.
There was a tone in his voice which more than one among them had now and again noticed with some slow bewilderment during the last few weeks a tone new to them, but which in time they grew used to, though they never understood its meaning. "Kinder," they used to say, "as ef he wus mad or ruffed up, though it warn't that exactly, either." "Black eyes, h'ain't she?" inquired the man on the barrel.
It h'ain't 'uman, I say, and I'll be danged if I stand it h'any longer." But people who came to Mary with criticism of Richard got no mercy. "You're far too touchy, Jim. YOU know, if any one does, how rushed and busy the doctor is, and you ought to be the first to make allowance for him after all he's done for you. You wouldn't be here now, if it hadn't been for him.
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