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"Kem in yere this mawnin'," continued the loquacious old fellow, "an' says fust crack outer th' box 'What's th' name o' the feller who sits next to me las' night; the one who was waitin' fer Matlock to make a break? er words to thet effect. 'How d'ye guess it? I axes, bein' some took aback fer I didn't think he was wise ter the play.
"But surely you will not take this young lady to the River Plate?" cried the astounded second officer. "She knew where she was bound w'en she kem aboard the Andromeda," said the skipper, frowning now like a man who argues with himself. "There's her portmanter to prove it, with a label, an' all, in her own 'and-writin'. It's some game played on me by 'er an' 'er uncle.
They're good boys, as I said afore; but they're quick and tetchy George, being the youngest, nat'rally is the tetchiest. You know how it is, Miss Carr; his pretty, gal-like face and little moustaches haz cost him half a dozen scrimmages already. He'z had a fight for every hair that's growed in his moustache since he kem here." "Say no more, Mr.
An' I kem ter-day 'lowin' ye an' me could strike a trade." Once more the bluff man of force turned an anxious look of inquiry to the pale, thoughtful face in the brown and dark green shadows beyond the copper gleam of the still. If policy had required that Nehemiah should be despatched, his was the hand to do the deed, and his the stomach to support his conscience afterward.
"But," he added, after a pause, with the air of a man obliged to revive a stale and unpleasant memory, "if I did what about it?" "Nuthin', only that you kin hev it to-morrow, ez that 'ere Frenchman is movin' out," responded Nott. "I thought you was sorter keen about it when you first kem."
Ef he'd kem up furder I'd hev up with my slate and swotted him over the snoot bet your boots!" Thus admonished Jimmy Snyder, albeit unshaken in his faith in his own courage, sat down. A slight pause ensued.
Key, that ef she'd been alive she'd bin yere that I believed it true for a minit! And that was why, afore this happened, I had a dream, right out yer, and dreamed she kem to me, all white and troubled, through the woods.
"Ben," said the girl in a low voice, "do you-uns b'lieve ef thar war passin' continual on a sure enough county road that thar cur'ous white light would kem on the old witch's face in the night-time? Ain't that a sort'n spell fur the dark an' the lonesomeness ter tarrify a few quaking dwellers round about? Surely many folks comin' an' goin' wouldn't see sech.
"An' why wudn't his palace be open to her," Judy continued with equal scorn. "He's afraid of her. She kem widin an ace o' spoilin' his chances o' goin' to London an' bowin' to the Queen. An, bedad, he's not sure of his futtin' while she's in it, for she has her mind on the place for Mr.
"I dunno but that plan would work mighty well," she said. This conjugal colloquy terminated as she glanced up and saw Birt. "Why, thar's young Dicey a-hint ye. Howdy Birt! 'Light an' hitch!" "Naw'm," rejoined Birt, as he rode into the enclosure and close up to the doorstep. "I hain't got time ter 'light." Then precipitately opening the subject of his mission. "I kem over hyar ter see Nate.
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