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Lookee yeer, old red gloves!" continued he in a louder voice, and raising his head above the rampart "this heer o' mine air vallable, do ee see? It air a rare colour, an' a putty colour. It 'ud look jest the thing on thet shield o' yourn; but 'tain't there yet, not by a long chalk; an' I kalklate ef ye want the skin o' my head, ye'll have to trot up an' take it."
In a few seconds we were out into the moonlight beyond, and, as I expected, I saw that this something was a man Pereira! He halted and wheeled round, lifting the stock of his gun, club fashion. "Thank God! it is you, Heer Allan," he said; "I thought you were a tiger." "Then it is your last thought, murderer," I answered, raising my rifle. "Don't shoot," he said. "Would you have my blood upon you?
A much-bethumbed envelope, addressed in crooked "printed" characters to "Mis Janis Day, Pokton," enclosed in a teacher's letter to the storekeeper, was the cover of Janice's love letter. Inside, the child said: "Dear Janis, jus' to think, I can see reel good, and my techur what I luv says maybe I will heer reel good bymeby.
And still she went up and down, enlarging, diminishing, heaving her breath and waving her chin around, and saying, in broken utterances, while a hackman on her right held his whip in her auditor's face, crying, "Carriage, sir? Carriage, sir?" "Why didn' he rin agin a man, sur! I I oh! I wish Mr. Ristofalah war heer! to teach um how to walk! Yer frind, sur ixposing me!"
Dunderberg, "Thunder Mountain," at the southern gate of the Hudson Highlands, is a wooded eminence, chiefly populated by a crew of imps of stout circumference, whose leader, the Heer, is a bulbous goblin clad in the dress worn by Dutch colonists two centuries ago, and carrying a speaking-trumpet, through which he bawls his orders for the blowing of winds and the touching off of lightnings.
I proceeded: "In England you encourage an orator by exclaiming, 'H'yaah! h'yaah! We pronounce it heer in some sections, 'h'yer' in others, and so on; but our whites do not say 'h'yaah, pronouncing the a's like the a in ah. I have heard English ladies say 'don't you' making two separate and distinct words of it; your Mr. Burnand has satirized it. But we always say 'dontchu. This is much better.
When at home, he had always several Indian hangers-on, who loitered about his house, sleeping like hounds in the sunshine, or preparing hunting and fishing-tackle for some new expedition, or shooting at marks with bows and arrows. Over these vagrant beings, Heer Antony had as perfect command as a huntsman over his pack; though they were great nuisances to the regular people of his neighbourhood.
It seemed to me, however, that the Heer Pereira wished to make a mock of me and to bring it home to me what a poor creature I was compared to himself I a mere sick boy who was worth nothing. "I know," said Marais uneasily, "my nephew has been too fortunate in life, and is somewhat overbearing in his manner.
I hope I shall die ere ever such a time cooms, and I shall work solitary among yo unless it cooms truly, I mun do 't, my friends; not to brave yo, but to live. I ha nobbut work to live by; and wheerever can I go, I who ha worked sin I were no heighth at aw, in Coketown heer?
She reached her home and walked upstairs to the sitting room, commanding the servant to find the Heer Adrian and bid him join her there. In the room was Elsa, who ran to her crying, "Is it true? Is it true?" "It is true, daughter, that Foy and Martin have escaped " "Oh! God is good!" wept the girl. "And that my husband is a prisoner and condemned to death." "Ah!" gasped Elsa, "I am selfish."
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