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It was nearly sundown; and every one in the station had been on the alert, ready to repel another attack should the Indians renew hostilities, as was not unlikely, when a voice cried out: "Hang me to the nearest cross-bar, ef the red sons of Satan hav'nt sent out a flag of truce!"
"Oh, ho! my old cock, that's the ticket, is it? but you'll see whether an old stager, like me, is to be turned out of any man's house such a night as this. I hav'nt served two campaigns against the Ingins and the British for nothing; and here I rest for the night."
You hav'nt a pine log, a spruce board or a refuse shingle; you neither raise wheat, oats, or hay, nor never can; you have no staples on airth, unless it be them iron ones for the padlocks, in Bridewell you've sowed pride and reaped poverty, take care of your crop, for it's worth harvestin you have no River and no Country, what in the name of fortin have you to trade on?
"That's no concern of yours, Mr. Inquisitive." "But I'd just like to know, Miss Sarah; 'cause I'm going in myself, if you hav'nt been." "Do you suppose that I have not paid attention to what your ma said? I know my own business, without instruction from you."
"They are alive, certainly they are alive! I met him again in Antwerp. No one else can make you such armor. The devil is in it, if you hav'nt heard of the Swabian armorer." "The Swabian the Swabian is he my father?" "Your own father. How long ago is it? Thirteen years, for I was then sixteen. That was the last time I saw him, and yet I recognized him at the first glance.
She said but for him she would be alive to-night. Then he plunged into the wood and disappeared, and she went back to the house. I hav'nt spoken of this to any one since. I wrote the words down when I came in. Here is the writing." She handed the coroner a slip of paper, on which what she had repeated was written. "I knew I would have to swear to it, so I wrote it down to make sure.
"My dear!" interrupted Chapman, with an air of surprise, "what do you mean? Hav'nt I been a finished husband, and a loving father?" "You are just as good, my dear, as husbands can be made." Mrs. Chapman said this condescendingly, and with an air of admiration truly grand. "But then, you know," she said, more mildly, "there was that handsome widow you used to be so polite to, my dear.
"You are very gallant!" said Miss Redbud. "Anan?" said Verty. "I mean you are very friendly to me, Verty," said Redbud, with a bright look at his frank face. "Why, what have I done? I hav'nt done anything for you, for ages. Let me see can't I do something now? Oh yes, there are some flowers, and I can make a nice wreath!"
Says I, I wish I could say all men were as honest then, for I am afeard there are a great many wont pay me up this winter; I should like to trade with your friend, who is he? Why, says he, he is the member for Isle Sable County, and if he don't let the great folks have it, its a pity. Who do you call great folks, said I, for I vow I hav'nt see'd one since I came here.
"Yes," he went on, "there is a great deal of difference, Miss Sallianna, between coming to see you, who are only a schoolmistress, and hav'nt much fine company, and the rich ladies; then you know I thought that the difference between our ages you being so much older than I. am, about thirty or thirty-five, I suppose " The cup was full. "Mr.
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