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But then I never heard as he was livin', neither. When his wife went, poor thing an' it was a chill on the liver, they said; it took her very sudden he says to me, "Mrs. Peckover," he says, "I know you for a motherly woman" just like that see?
It must be Satan that's got into him." "It's a awful thing to 'ave a man like that livin' in the next cottage to your own. I'll be frightened out o' my wits when my master's not at 'ome." "They ought to do something to 'im I've said so many a time." And then the voice of Snarley's wife as she chafed her husband's hands: "No, sir, don't you believe 'em when they say he's drunk.
Then, jus’ as I got so I could stamp m’ boots on th’ ground an’ expect to stand straight up in ’em, this here Yankee patrol came ’long an’ dogged me right into a bunch o’ our boys they had rounded up. I had me some weeks in a prison stockade, which ain’t, I’m tellin’ you, no way for to spend any livin’ time. Then this here war was over, an’ I was loose.
King Fisher you know him, I reckon, fer he's half the time livin' among respectable folks. King is a pretty good feller. It'll do to tie up with him ant his gang. Now, there's Cheseldine, who hangs out in the Rim Rock way up the river. He's an outlaw chief. I never seen him, though I stayed once right in his camp. Late years he's got rich an' keeps back pretty well hid.
She be turnin' over now, as I'm a livin' No, no; 'tis all right; her be rightin' again, but Cap'n, her can't live much longer to that rate." "No," agreed George, who, like Dyer, had been breathlessly watching the outrageous antics of the waterlogged craft, and had seen how very nearly she had come to capsizing as the sea flung her up and hove her over on her beam ends "I'm afraid she cannot.
"I'll keep account and pay you back every cent, Doc, when I'm earnin' my own livin'." "All right. That's settled then. Now, fur your gettin' your letters, still, from Teacher. How are we goin' to work that there? I'll tell you, Tillie!" he slapped the table as an idea came to him.
She said she could do more washin' since she got into the church than ever, and that it had been the makin' of her. John Cruzan, a fighter, said he hadn't wanted to hurt a livin' soul since he was baptized. And so it went. Mitch was settin' on the end of the seat next the aisle, and I was on the inside. Pretty soon the revivalist came down and spied Mitch.
I knew you'd been huntin' him for years, and so I says, 'Lew, you or me? and you says, 'Me. I give in to you, for I knew you're a better man than me, and because I wanted you to have the satisfaction. Wal, the months have gone by, and Jim Girty's still livin' and carryin' on. Now he's over there after them poor preachers.
Simmy, my son, thou'rt sadly drunken. O youth, youth! Thou winebibber, hold the light steady, or I'll tell thy mammy!" "Oh, sir, I do mortally dread the devil an' all his works!" "Now, if ever! The devil, says he an' Master Tingcomb still livin', an' in his own house awaitin' us!" Be sure, his words were as good as a slap in the face to me.
As Davie Summers expressed it, "they were regular trumps"; and, according to Buzzby's opinion, "they wos the jolliest set o' human walrusses wot he had ever comed across in all his travels, and he ought to know, for he had always kep' his weather-eye open, he had, and wouldn't give in on that p'int, he wouldn't, to no man livin'."
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