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"I'll l b double you," says Sandy, "if ye gie me ony o' your chat, ye half-cled horn-goloch 'at ye are"; and he took the sacket a kleip i' the side o' the heid wi' his open luif that tummeled him ower the tap o' the wickets like a puckle rags. In half a meenit a' the hunder laddies were round Sandy, an' him layin' amon' them wi' ane o' their ain wickets.
"Before I go I take a piece of palm it come from the Notre Dame; it is all bless by the Pope and I nail it to the door of the house. 'For luck, I say. Then I laugh, and I speak out to the prairie: 'Come along, good summer; come along, good crop; come two hunder' and fifty dollars for Gal Bargon. Ver' quiet I give Norinne twenty dollar, but she will not take him.
"An' of all the wicious, savage, hill-tempered hold fellows it was ever my hill-luck to wear livery hunder," the tallest footman had said, "he's the wiolentest and wust by a long shot." And this particular footman, whose name was Thomas, had also repeated to his companions below stairs some of the Earl's remarks to Mr. Havisham, when they had been discussing these very preparations.
Harry Morton amang a hunder." "Ay, but, Cuddie lad," replied Jenny, "though ye are no blind, ye are no sae notice-taking as I am." "Weel, what for needs ye cast that up to me just now; or what did ye see about the man that was like our Maister Harry?" "I will tell ye," said Jenny.
'Tain't not arf so bloomin' dusty neither. He buried his nose in a clump of scentless white violets. No one had come to tell the flowers that the season of their strength was long past, and they had bloomed merrily in the twilight of the pines. 'This is something like, he said luxuriously. 'Wot a 'evinly clear drop for a bullet acrost! How much d'you make it, Mulvaney? 'Seven hunder.
He was discharged, and said he'd ha' no more of the army he'd liked that job no better than any other he'd ever had. His captain, in his will, left Andy twa hunder pounds sterlin' more siller than Andy's ever thought to finger in his life. "So it was that siller gave you your start, Andy, man?" I said. He laughed. "Oh, aye!" he said. "And came near to givin' me my finish, too, Harry.
"'I'll leave it in the Board's hands, I said, 'if two hunder an' eighty-seven pound is anything beyond right and reason for eight months. I might ha' saved my breath, for the Board was new since the last election, an' there they sat, the damned deevidend-huntin' ship-chandlers, deaf as the adders o' Scripture. "'We must keep faith wi' the public, said young Steiner.
He is over there at the Old Man Lak', where you can get at him easy, not like in the city where he lif'. Over in the States, he laugh mebbe, becos' he is at home, an' can buy off the law. But here it is Canadaw, an' they not care eef he have hunder' meellion dollar. He know that sure.
Besides, I was spending my breath, when I rose on a sea, in 'ollering, and you can't swim and 'oller. So I tried a trick I learned, when a boy, on the Cornish coast, where I was born, Sir; it's one worth knowing. I doubled back my feet hunder me till my 'eels come to the small of my back, and I could float as long as I wanted to, and, when I rose on a wave, 'oller.
"When I get up to Bargon's I laugh, for all the hunder' acre is ver' fine, and Bargon stan' hin the door, and stretch out his hand, and say: 'Rachette, there is six hunder' dollar for me. I nod my head, and fetch out a horn, and he have one, his eyes all bright like a lime-kiln. He is thin and square, and his beard grow ver' thick and rough and long, and his hands are like planks.
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