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"Only jist for a moment, transiting." "I envy you," said Hartopp; and he went off with a sigh. Jasper Losely, on quitting his father, spent his last coins in payment for his horse's food, and in fiery drink for himself. In haste he mounted in haste he spurred on to London; not even pence for the toll- bars.
I mind once we had an Irish gall as a dairy help; well, we had a wicked devil of a cow, and she kicked over the milk pail, and in ran Dora, and swore the Bogle did it; jist so, poor Rigby, he wouldn't allow it was nateral causes, but laid it all to politics.
As for patronage, sais you, 'you know as well as I do, that all that's not worth havin', is jist left to poor colonist. He is an officer of militia, gets no pay and finds his own fit out. Like Don Quixote's tailor, he works for nothin' and finds thread.
"He's pelting the gulls as usual," said Black Ned. "A-missin' of 'em, you mean," suggested Mitford. "Hallo, Terrence!" shouted Hayward, catching sight of the Irishman at that moment. "Here! we want you." "Comin', sor, jist wan more shot at this baste. He's bin flyin' round me hid for half-an-hour at laste, winkin' at the stones as they go by him. Och! missed again bad luck to ye!"
It was jist, I suppose, in case he might be taken short as he was, and that you wor to do it for him if he hadn't an opportunity? But, sure, if Ginty succeeds, there's an end to your promise." "Well, I believe so," said the old man; "but if she does succeed, why, all I'll wondher at will be that God would allow it.
So he says to me, 'Simon, says he, 'go up in the plantation and pull up a young fir tree, and then in the morning put it in the cart and take it over to the school-room. This was day afore yesterday, in the afternoon. I was busy jist then, so I didn't go to the plantation till 'twas dusk. However, as you know, yer honour, 'tis moonlight, so I didn't trouble.
'You lie! says his raverance for he was frightened beyont all bearin' an' he makes but one jump out iv the bed at the wrong side, where there was only jist a little place in the wall for a press, an' his raverance could not as much as turn in it for the wealth iv kingdoms.
"Blazes! ye're lousy wid money," commented Sweeny. "Ye want somebody to scratch yees." "Twenty thousan' dollars in bank," added Glover. "All by blowin' 'n' tradin'. Goin' hum in the next steamer. Anythin' I can do for ye, old messmate? Say how much." "It's the liftinant is takin' care av me. He's made a betther livin' nor yees, a thousand times over, by jist marryin' the right leddy.
I guess the Bluenose knows jist about as much about politics as this foolish fish knows about flyin'. All the critters in natur' are better in their own element. "It beats cock-fightin', I tell you, to hear the Bluenoses, when they get together, talk politics.
The matter-of-fact Scot felt a strange sensation as of the presence of some greater power. "The sacrifice, Duncan?" he asked in a tone of surprise. "Ye ken they will na' heed the one great Sacrifice that's already been made." "Yes, oh yes, that's jist it, Andra." Duncan's voice sank to a whisper. "They have rejected the Sacrifice and the Lord will require one from among us.
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