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The men confessed that she was right in regard to their mission, and begged that she would get them some breakfast, for which they would pay her liberally. "Yes!" rejoined the woman, angrily, "I know'd what you'd cum fur. Thar ain't nothin' in this house to get breakfast on nothin' fur my poor old man and the two little children. Work's hard to get up here.
Peggotty ruffled his hair again, with both hands, as a further preparation for what he was going to say, and went on, with a hand upon each of his knees: 'There was a certain person as had know'd our Em'ly, from the time when her father was drownded; as had seen her constant; when a babby, when a young gal, when a woman. Not much of a person to look at, he warn't, said Mr.
I knaw'd his back, and the high way with his head at first onset. It was Black Diamond. "'Hullo, Bert, says I, coming up behind. "Round he jumps, terrible dark. "I'd hardly ha know'd him toff'd out quite the officer, bits of epaulettes, waxed moustachers, pistol and all. I'd never ha beleft it! "'That Reube? says he, at last, starin properly. "'That's me, sir, says I.
"Ay, ay, Jack, 'tis true," came a deep-toned chorus of approval. "Besides," went on the forecastle orator, "we all know'd wot kind of a officer he is. Fightin' and prize money is wot we all want; and here 's where we 'll git it, you 'll see, eh, mates?" "Ay, ay; Jack's right, Bill."
Isn't it called an alibi, the getting folk to swear to where he really was at the time?" "Best way, if you know'd him innocent, would be to find out the real murderer. Some one did it, that's clear enough. If it wasn't Jem who was it?" "How can I tell?" answered Mary, in agony of terror, lest Job's question was prompted by any suspicion of the truth. But he was far enough from any such thought.
A'most the whole time, she thowt, now, that him as I made mention on just now was lurking for her unnerneath the winder; now that him as had brought her to this was in the room, and cried to the good young woman not to give her up, and know'd, at the same time, that she couldn't unnerstand, and dreaded that she must be took away.
You should never hold the reins when you fire, nor try to put the gun to your shoulder. It a'n't needful. The beast'll look arter itself, if it's a riglar buffalo-runner; any ways holdin' the reins is of no manner of use. I once know'd a gentleman that came out here to see the buffalo- huntin'. He was a good enough shot in his way, an' a first-rate rider.
After we'd told all we know'd, we asked her to tell us her story, which she did, and it showed she was a woman of grit and education. "She said the Ingins what had captured her took her up to their camp on the Saw Log, a little creek north of Fort Dodge you all know where it is and there she staid that night. Early in the morning they all started for the north.
"I know'd she wouldn't. The truth is, Muster Fenwick, that young women as goes astray after that fashion is just like any sick animal, as all the animals as ain't comes and sets upon immediately. It's just as well, too. They knows it beforehand, and it keeps 'em straight." "It didn't keep poor Carry straight." "And, by the same token, she must suffer, and so must we all.
I never know'd till this minute that Ben had any blunt at all did I, Ben? and I only brought him and Rover here to sup, because I thought it neighbourly and kind-like." Poor Tom had till now been very silent: some how the pheasants lay heavy on his stomach. "Is it true, Ben, is it true? the lad isn't a thief, the lad isn't a murderer? Oh, God! Burke, tell me the truth!
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