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I'll content myself wi' lookin' at 'em and listenin' to 'em. It'll be a comfort to hear my mother-tongue, anyhow." "Good," replied the Chief, "I trust you." The interval of rest coming to an end at this point, the conversation ceased and the paddles were resumed. It was a magnificent day. The great Pacific was in that condition of perfect repose which its name suggests.
"Apples, at such a time as this;" sez Miss Tutt "When the slumberin' world trembles before the advancin' tread of a new poet When the heavens are listenin' intently to ketch the whispers of an Ardelia's fate Sweet apples! in such a time as this!" sez she. But she took two. "I demand the truth," sez she. "And you are a base, trucklin' coward, if you give it not."
I've often heerd owd John say as he'd a been glad to ha given the butty back a shillin ov is pay to be let off the drink. An Willum, that's my usband, he wor allus at it too an the doctor towd me one day, as Willum lay a-dyin, as it ran in the blood an Jamie heard im I know he did for I fouu im on the stairs listenin."
The night will darken up more then, an' it will give us a better chance for lookin' an listenin'. I'll be mightily fooled if we don't find out a lot that's worth knowin'." True to Obed's prediction, the night deepened somewhat within the hour. Many of the stars were hidden by floating wisps of cloud, and objects could not be seen far on the dusky surface of the plain.
"If you please, sir," he said, impassively, and with a quick look into Merriton's grave face, "I heard. And I can speak, if the jury wants me to, I don't doubt but what my tale would be worth listenin' to, if only to add my hevidence to the rest. That man there" he pointed one shaking forefinger at his master's face, and glowered into it for a moment "was the murderer of poor Mr. Wynne!"
Often when I was waitin' in the dark, listenin' to the sound o' the rival miners comin' nearer, I would repeat to myself the words, 'I will make a man more precious 'an gold; even a man than the golden wedge o' Ophir. An' when a poor chap lay dyin', I would say to him those words." "So you were sorry for the men you killed?" "Oh, I was sorry, though that did small good to 'em.
"In throth it is; go an avick. Phadrick!" "I'm listenin'." "Phadrick, do you know the differ atween black an' white'?" "Atween black an' white? Hut, gorsoon, to be sure I do." "Well, an' what might it be, Phadrick, my larned Athiop? What might it be, I negotiate?"
"Glo," said Betty, "I'm surprised at ye, dearest, listenin' to such clipperty clapper." Glory did not recover her composure after this incident until they came near the Downs. Meantime the grooms had blown their horns at many villages hidden in the verdure of charming hollows, and the coaches had overtaken the people who had left London earlier in the day to make the journey afoot.
That's gude rotation of crops for Dartymoor, as I knaw an' you doan't; an' if the Duchy encloses the best to rob our things , why for shouldn't we " Things = beasts; sheep and cattle. "That'll do. I caan't bide here listenin' to your child's-talk all the marnin'. What Duchy does an' doan't do is for higher 'n you or me to decide.
"Primitive; but effective, I've no doubt. I must see it in operation." And an hour later he's still there, reposin' comf'table in an office chair with his feet on the windowsill, smokin' cigarettes, and throwin' off chunks of classy dialogue that had Swifty Joe gawpin' at him like he was listenin' to a foreign language. "My assistant, Mr. Gallagher," says I, by way of apologizin'.
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