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At this point Captain Jack, slowly motoring by the lane mouth, turned his machine to the curb and leaped out. "What's the row here?" he asked, making his way through the considerable crowd that had gathered. "What's the trouble, Wigglesworth?" "They're knockin' my boy abaht, so they be," exclaimed Mr. Wigglesworth. 'Ard!" And Mr. Wigglesworth made a pass at the young Scot.
And those wha escaped knockin on t' yead were aw sold as slaves every mon jock o' them! A strong light of anger showed itself in David's face. 'Then he wor a cantin murderer! Yo mun tell him so! If I'd my way, he'd hang for 't! 'Eh, laddie, they were nowt but rebels an Papists, said the old man, complacently. 'Don't yo becall Papists! cried David, fiercely, facing round upon him.
Yer talk about me bein' cruel an' callous. It's the game that's cruel, not me. I knocked 'im out all right, but wot 'ud be the use of knockin' 'im down with one 'and an' pickin' 'im up with the other?" "You say yourself that he took you off the streets, and gave you a living." "So 'e did, but 'e got 'is money's worth out of me. I did the work of a man, an' saved 'im pounds for years.
The'e's somebody knockin'." The sound of feet, soft and quick, made itself heard within, and in a few moments a slim maid, too large for a little girl, too childlike for a young girl, stood in the open doorway, looking down on the elderly people in the buggy, with a face as glad as a flower's.
The rain pelted down harder than before, a regular flood in itself, and to the noise of the drops was added the roar from the flooded river. Presently there came a pounding on the basement door of the tenement where Jeff, the colored boy, lived. Bang! Bang! Bang! came the loud knock. "Who's dat?" asked Jeff's mother from the bedroom where she was sleeping. "Who's dat knockin' at de do'?" Bang!
"When we went below lawst night, after knockin' off pumping all hands of us was on the growl, 'cause of the heavy work we'd had to do; and Sam up and said that the best thing we could do 'd be to tike to the boats, as soon as the gale broke, and let the blessed old hooker go to the bottom, rather than have to keep all on pumpin' of her everlastin'ly until we fetched a port.
Theer's somebody knockin' at the door. Go and tell 'em what you've made up your wicked mind to do!" Sennacherib thrust his head into the hall and stared frowningly at the visitor through his spectacles. "Good-morning, sir," said Rachel, with frigid politeness. "I called for the purpose of paying my respects to Mrs. Eld. If the moment is inauspicious I will call again."
Tough as I be myself, I don't believe I could a stood it a week, let alone tin years. Talk o' knockin' about like a Turk's head. They were knocked about an' beat an' bullied an' kicked an' starved worse than the laziest lubber as ever skulked about the decks o' a ship.
Then he removed the cutlery, heaved a deep sigh, and enquired: "Who at, ma?" "What's that?" "Who'll I go courtin' at?" "Skim, you 'member in thet las' book we read, 'The Angel Maniac's Revenge, there was a sayin' that fate knocks wunst on ev'ry man's door. Well, fate's knockin' on your door." Skim listened, with a nervous glance toward the doorway. Then he shook his head.
Well, says I, since I won the last it would'nt be pretty not to give you a chance; I do suppose I oughtn't to refuse, but I dont love to abuse my beast by knockin him about this way. As soon as the money was staked, I said, had'nt we better, says I, draw stakes, that are blood horse of yourn has such uncommon particular bottom, he'll perhaps leave me clean out of sight.
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