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"How was that for a shot, mother?" he shouted, as the glass came flying down. "Hav'n't hit one of those since I was fourteen years old. Say, I wish I was fourteen years old now, barefooted, and sitting on the bank of that creek catching shiners." "I wouldn't throw any more stones, Robert," Mrs. Harding said, laying her hand on his arm and looking up to his happy face.
"You have as much right to sit down here as I have," said I, "the road is free for every one; as for sitting down beside me, you have the look of an honest man, and I have no objection to your company." "Why, as for being honest, master," said the man, laughing and sitting down by me, "I hav'n't much to say many is the wild thing I have done when I was younger; however, what is done, is done.
"Well," cried she, "they've nabbed my husband; but I'll be dished if I hav'n't boxed up the midship-mite in that parlour, and he shall take his place." I thought I should have died when I looked at the woman, and perceived her coming up to the door, followed by some others, to unlock it.
"Don't you know her? Did you never see her before? No! you've been out of England; but you've heard of her, certainly? Rosamunda," whispered Lord Glistonbury to Vivian. "And who is Rosamunda?" said Vivian; "an actress." "Actress! Hush! Bless you! no but the famous poetess. Is it possible that you hav'n't read the poems of Rosamunda?
Making my way to the quarters of the commander of the Expedition, I was greeted every now and again with a "You should have been here last week; every soul wants to get on the Expedition, and you hav'n't a chance. The whole thing is complete; we start to-morrow."
"How stupid of you, Mr Dobbs; you know that I was only out for a few minutes. Why didn't you wait and why did you go to the cupboard? Hav'n't I always told you not to look into it? and now you see the consequences." "Verily my hand burneth," replied the Dominie. "I will go for cold water, and it will ease you.
"Aye, among some of us old sailor chaps, he goes by that name. Ye hav'n't seen him yet, have ye?" "No, we hav'n't. He's sick they say, but is getting better, and will be all right again before long." "All right again before long!" laughed the stranger, with a solemnly derisive sort of laugh. "Look ye; when Captain Ahab is all right, then this left arm of mine will be all right; not before."
"Now, now," cried Moggy, slapping her elbow, "hav'n't I got the dog, and won't I cut him up into sassingers, and eat him in the bargain, if you won't give me my dear, darling Jemmy, and all his papers, in the bargain?" "Man the boat," cried Vanslyperken. But no one would obey the order. "Look here," cried Moggy, flourishing a knife which she had borrowed from the man in the boat.
But in a minute or two, a woman came in from the street, with her long black hair hanging about her shoulders, and her cap in her hand. "Well," cried she, "they've nabbed my husband; but I'll be dished if I hav'n't boxed up the midshipmite in that parlour, and he shall take his place."
But now to business Alick, just run upstairs and see if breakfast is ready. It is quite true that I am looking out for a new bailiff, as I have been obliged to part with the last man, because of well, his carelessness in keeping accounts but," said he, as his son opened the door and announced that breakfast was ready, "you hav'n't had breakfast yet, we can finish our talk while we eat it."
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