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I inquired, sharply. "Why, nobody told me, exactly. Lute Rogers and Cap'n Jed was here last night and they got a-goin' as usual. The Cap'n does love to stir up Lute, and he commenced hintin' about somethin' of the kind. I don't know as they was hints, either, but Lute thought they was." He grinned. I understood. "I see," I said. "Well, what did Lute say?"
Nobody put him up to riggin' out in his best bib and tucker and sneakin' here the minute I was out of the house. No, nobody did! Of COURSE not!" "No, nobody did," said Keziah briskly. "And you may know what you're hintin' at, but I don't." "Dear me! Ain't we innocent! We've got plenty of money, WE have. Widowers with property ain't no attraction to US. Everybody knows that oh, yes!
"SHUT UP!" It was not a request, but an order. Brown opened his eyes. "You were addressing me?" he asked, blandly. "Yes?" "Addressin' you! For thunder sakes, who else would I be ad . . . There! there! Now I cal'late you're hintin' that I'm drunk. I ain't." "Indeed?" "Yes, indeed. And I ain't out of my head not yet; though keepin' company with a Bedlamite may have some effect, I shouldn't wonder.
Evan thanked him briefly, but declined, and paced on with his head bent. 'It won't cost you nothing-not a sixpence! the postillion sang out, pursuing him. 'Come, sir! be a man! I ain't a hintin' at anything jump in. Evan again declined, and looked out for a side path to escape the fellow, whose bounty was worse to him than his abuse, and whose mention of the sixpence was unlucky.
"This is how it was," answered the skipper, bolting the mouthful, "you see the `Coffin's' not in a fit state for sea; she's leaky all over, an' there's a plank under the starboard quarter, just abaft the cabin skylight, that has fairly struck work, caulk it and pitch it how you please, it won't keep out the sea no longer, so when we was about to take in cargo, I wrote to Mr Stuart tellin' him of it, an' advisin' repairs, but he wrote back, sayin' it was very awk'ard at this time to delay that cargo, an' askin' if I couldn't work the pumps as I had used to do, besides hintin' that he thought I must be gettin' timid as I grew old!
Evan thanked him briefly, but declined, and paced on with his head bent. 'It won't cost you nothing-not a sixpence! the postillion sang out, pursuing him. 'Come, sir! be a man! I ain't a hintin' at anything jump in. Evan again declined, and looked out for a side path to escape the fellow, whose bounty was worse to him than his abuse, and whose mention of the sixpence was unlucky.
You see, I have ah more money than I need. I seldom spend my money, you know, and " She interrupted him and her tone was rather sharp. "Don't, Mr. Bangs," she said. "Don't say any more. If you've got the idea that I'm hintin' for you to LEND me money you or anybody else you never was more mistaken in your life. Or ever will be." Galusha turned red. "I beg your pardon," he faltered.
I b'lieve I'll go some o' these days yet, and carry a good stout umbrella in my hand too. It says in a book somewhar's that there's insults that can only be wiped out in blood. Ketch 'em hintin' that I'm the mother of anybody, that's all! I declare I don' know what our Home Missionary Societies's doin' not to regenerate them places or exterminate 'em, one or t' other.
Het an' Ben must be slices off the same block, for his letter was soaked in salt water, an' she had to run a hot flatiron over hern before it would do to send. He writ her that she was the only faithful woman on earth he was hintin' at Dick's burial arrangements, I reckon an' that if she was thar he'd put his head in her lap an' have a good cry.
I shall always tell when there is anything to tell." "I know you will, Mary-'Gusta. I'm ashamed of my hintin'. God bless you, dearie. Now kiss me good night." He kissed her and, holding her in his arms, looked fondly down into her eyes. And, as she returned his look, suddenly she blushed crimson and hid her face in his jacket.
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