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"Only by way of a change, I suppose," observed Thompson, another of the convicts. "You have been in every gaol in England, to my knowledge havn't you, Ben?" "Mayhap I have," replied Collins; "but one gentleman should never interfere with the consarns of another. I warn't whipped at the cart-tail, as you were, last Lancaster 'sizes." "No; but you had a taste of it on board of the Terpsichore.
"'Your name and Regiment, sir? "Tom drawled them out, and the General directed his Aid to take them down. "'Go to your Quarters, sir, said the General. "'Havn't caught anything yet, and hard tack is played out, replied Tom. "At this the General put spurs to his horse, and left. Half an hour afterward, a Corporal's Guard came after Tom.
"It sarves thim right," said Mr. Hennessy. "They ought to be at home tindin' th' babies." "A thrue statement an' a sound argymint that appeals to ivry man. P'raps they havn't got any babies. A baby is a good substichoot f'r a ballot, an' th' hand that rocks th' cradle sildom has time f'r anny other luxuries.
"I've got two men watching every train, day and night," said Peter. "When Higginson sets foot in this town again, one man trails him, and the other runs for me.... Well, I'm a generous and forbearing man, Larry, and I recall that you havn't had much fun here. I'll yes, hang it all! I'll bring the old rogue to you, dead or alive, and stand by in silence while you speak him your little piece."
"I s'pose you calc'late to do the ironing?" she said to Emily, on Saturday morning. "No, I am sure I don't," was Emily's reply. "I thought you had done it." "Well, I havn't I expected that you were agoing to do it. Miss Hodges, the woman I lived with before I came here, always did it, and she was the richest and genteelest woman in the place.
Just to think of her fur sacque, and great handsome shawl, and here I havn't had a new cloak this ten years have to wear my blanket shawl to church. "Yes, I think's much!" answered Mrs. Myers, emphatically. "She's as proud as Lucifer, too. Mr. "Well, it's too bad," Mrs.
I havn't lived in Mowbray man and boy for fifty years; seen it a village, and now a great town full of first-rate institutions and establishments like this," added their host surveying the Temple with a glance of admiring complacency; "I say I havn't lived here all this time and talked to the people for nothing." "Well, we are all attention," said Gerard with a smile.
These figures seem to show there are a few people who havn't any home or if they have they are looking for one they like better, which, like the will of the wisp, evades them always, but they continue to shift around, always hopeful, never satisfied, and they will continue to shift around until Gabriel blows on his little tin horn.
"Sais he, 'Bill, it breaketh my heart to have to leave agin arter this fashion. I havn't seen Polly now goin' on three years, nor the little un either. And he actilly piped his eye. "Cutler, there is a great deal of philosophy in that maxim: a preacher couldn't say as much in a sermon an hour long, as there is in that little story with that little moral reflection at the eend of it.
'Jack, says he, 'I have a wild filly that has never been caught, and you must go to my demesne to-morrow, and catch her, or if you don't look there, says the big blackguard, 'on that hook it hangs, before to-morrow, if you havn't her at sunset in the stable that you claned yesterday. 'Very well, your honor, said Jack, carelessly, 'I'll do every thing in my power, and if I fail, I can't help it.
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