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What was his game prowlin' around here an' tryin' ter make friends with the dog?" "I'll tell you that," returned Nick, glancing across at Rube. "It was all quite innercent. I knew that Kiddie an' you was away on a canoe trip. Broken Feather knew it, too. I'd a suspicion, an' more'n a suspicion, that he'd made up his mind ter break in here an' carry off some of Kiddie's valu'bles.
Sir, Vistling Dick vas a innercent, smiling babe, and young B. is a snowy, pet lamb alongside o' Number Two. Capital Coves like 'im only 'appen, and they only 'appen every thousand year or so. Ecod! I 'm proud o' Number Two. And talking of 'im, I 'appened to call on Nick the Cobbler, last night." "Oh?" "Ah! and I found 'im vith 'is longest awl close 'andy all on account o' Number Two."
'I don't s'pose I shall be long, and, while I'm away, Bill and the cook will look arter you. "Miss Butt wrinkled up 'er shoulders. "'The gate'll be locked, and you're not to leave the wharf. D'ye 'ear? "The gal wriggled 'er shoulders agin and went on reading, but she gave the cook a look out of 'er innercent baby eyes that nearly made 'im drop the mop.
"He's gone on before," answered Frank, surprised and confused at this treatment. "Oh, I daresay," said Andrew, giving him a shake. "And I suppose you don't even know what he's got in his pocket. You're a nice young innercent. You jest come along with me."
He returned with his shotgun. "And I aim to blow the top of your head off ef you try it," Bowers said, breathing heavily. "That little innercent sheep don't mean no harm to nobody. Sence we're speakin' plain, I don't like you nohow.
"But at last I would be heard, and I told her I was no burglar but an innercent man; and then she looked in the index to find if Barclay had anything interesting to say about the wickedness of telling falsehoods.
Twitt raised her eyes and hands in astonishment. "Gone away?" "Yes." And Mary showed her the letter Helmsley had written, and explained how Angus Reay had started off to walk towards Minehead, in the hope of overtaking the wanderer. "Well, I never!" And Mrs. Twitt gave a short gasp of wonder. "Wants to find employment, do 'e? The poor old innercent!
She would just put her arm round Miss Beryl and tell Mars Lennox: 'If you help to hang my friend's child, you shan't marry my daughter! Your ma had pluck enuff to stop him. Mark what I say; that poor child is innercent, and the Lord will clear up everything some day, and then He will require the blood of them that condemned the innercent. Suppos'n appearances are agin her?
I down't 'old with sin myself, mind you, but I down't believe in cuttin' off your nose to spite someone else's fyce. You go an' wash your 'ands, an' I'll 'ave your dinner up in 'alf a jiff!..." John stared at her. "I don't know what you mean by living in sin," he said. "Well, you are innercent," she replied. "'Aven't you never 'eard of no one livin' together without bein' married?"
You won't allow us the constitutional weapon of the vote, so we strike as we can, and with what weapons we can " "Makin' bonfires of innercent people an' their property, ain't politics, Miss!" shouted a voice. "Hear, Hear!" from the crowd. "We haven't killed anybody but ourselves!" The answer flashed. "Pretty near it!
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