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Malcolm held his peace. "Ay, I'm thinkin' I maun gang," he said at length. "Whaur till, than?" asked Miss Horn. "Ow! to Lon'on whaur ither?" "And what'll yer lordship du there?" "Dinna say lordship to me, mem, or I'll think ye're jeerin' at me. What wad the caterpillar say," he added, with a laugh, "gien ye ca'd her my leddie Psyche?" Malcolm of course pronounced the Greek word in Scotch fashion.
"'Lave aff your humbuggin', says he, 'I bid you, and tell me what it is you mane, at all at all. "'Parly voo frongsay, says I. "'O, your humble sarvant, says he; 'why, by gor, you're a scholar, Paddy. "'Throth, you may say that, says I. "'Why, you're a clever fellow, Paddy, says the captain, jeerin' like. "'You're not the first that said that, says I, 'whether you joke or no.
Two women about always fights and Keziah's got the Ferguson temper. She's afraid of me, but now and then she fergits and has a tantrum." Jeb looked at her with a smile and a frown. "Perk up a little," he more than half ordered. "I don't want Keziah jeerin' at me." Susan made a pitiful effort to smile.
George!" said Thomas, with great solemnity, "luik ye efter yer sowl, an' the Lord'ill luik after yer body, legs an' a'! Man, ye're no convertit, an' hoo can ye unnerstan' the things o' the speerit? Aye jeerin', an' jeerin'!" "Weel! weel!
Wouldn't I of been one to go, if it hadn't of been that I had a big knife-cut in my side you could of shoved a cat in give to me by a slant-eyed cuss name of Baldy Winch. Didn't I watch 'em go, the whole seven of 'em, Baldy Winch, rot him, jeerin' at me an' me swearin' I'd get him yet, him an' Gus Ingle an' Preacher Ellson an' the first Brodie an' Jimmy Kelp an' Manny Howard an' the Italian?
An' to this day, all I can state is that I sees it with these yere eyes. "'Let her roll! says Texas Thompson. 'That moon story prepares us for anything. "'Texas, observes the Colonel, a heap severe, 'I'd hate to feel that your observations is the jeerin' offspring of distrust. "'Me distrust! replies Texas, hasty to squar' himse'f.
He ware but he bruk down afore he could finish. "'Twas five minits afore he could tell what had happened, th' old gal cussin' an' swearin' an' th' crowd a-hootin' an' jeerin', but finally th' skipper got some soldiers to carry th' old gal away. Thin out comes Garnett on th' main deck a-smellin' av his little vial, but avoidin' av th' skipper's eye.
"'He did, says Father Roach; 'he spoke very hard about the way he was treated down there; that they was always jibin' and jeerin' him about drink, and fightin', and the course he led up here, and that it was a queer thing, for the matter of ten shillings, he was to be kept there so long.
I'd love, when they was snickerin', and pokin' fun at me, and actin' and jeerin' and sneerin', and callin' me all to nort, I'd love to spring onto 'em, and roar." "Hush, Josiah," says I. "Be calm! be calm!" "I won't be calm! I can't see into it," he hollered. "Why, what lifted Letitia Lanfear right up, didn't lift me up. Hain't what's sass for the goose, sass for the gander?" "No," says I sadly.
Ask yer conscience, Mr. M'Adam. An' if he was a wee aggravatin' at times, had he no reason? He'd a heavy cross to bear, had David, and yo' know best if yo' helped to ease it for him." The little man pointed to the door; but the girl paid no heed. "D'yo' think when yo' were cruel to him, jeerin' and fleerin', he never felt it, because he was too proud to show ye?
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