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The latter leaped back with his arms thrust above his head, straining at his hands to get them higher. "My God, Jim!" "You're a low-down, lyin' hound!" Hardy's tongue clove to the roof of his mouth. "Damn you, d'you hear me?" "Yes! For God's sake, Jim, don't shoot!" "Your life ain't worth a dime!" "Give me one more chance an' I'll play square!"
But when he went out for a man deliberate, he didn't take no special chances.... "'The point is that these yere bad men are a low-down, miserable proposition, and plain, cold-blooded murderers, willin' to wait for a sure thing, and without no compunctions whatever.
"Jim!" "But mind, you said you wouldn' tell you know you said you wouldn' tell, Huck." "Well, I did. I said I wouldn't, and I'll stick to it. Honest INJUN, I will. People would call me a low-down Abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum but that don't make no difference. I ain't a-going to tell, and I ain't a-going back there, anyways. So, now, le's know all about it."
When I finish you'll see that it's best for him to stay right here in this church, if he wants to, after all the mean low-down tricks you've served him." "I shall not allow you to pick a quarrel. I regret that you are so much inclined that way." "You can keep all your regretting till later, you'll likely need it.
"After all, when one gets out of an invitation to dinner, one generally sends an excuse; but ..." he broke off, and his eyes blazed suddenly "... look here, Barry, you know, and I know, that this woman has played a low-down trick on me. I thought her well, no matter what I thought her but anyway I know her now for what she is.
She considered for a moment, then said: "Have you ever told a lie?" "A lie? I don't know. I guess so. Everybody tells lies sometime or other." "Not little lies. Serious ones, sinful ones, to people you love." "No. I never told that kind. That's a pretty low-down thing to do."
He recognized Tom, and he knew that his treachery stood discovered. He knew that with the evidence against him he was doomed to stand before a firing squad if he should be taken into the American lines. Tom looked at him as one might look at a leper. "You low-down traitor!" he said bitterly. "You vile scoundrel! I've caught you at last and caught you dead to rights.
But I can't help it. I can't make you see how the thing looks to me. You know I've written you all about everything what this place has meant to me. Until I came here I never realised it was in me to make good at anything. But here I have; I'm doing so well that I'd actually have some self-respect if I wasn't bound to play this low-down trick on Josie Lockwood.
They's two ladies heah, no relation o' him; they done come heah a yeah er so ago, and they- all keeps house fer the Cunnel. That's Mrs. Ellison and her dahteh, Miss Lady. She's a pow'ful fine gal, Miss Lady." "I don't know them," said the visitor. "No, sah," said Bill. "They ain't been heah long. Dese heah low-down niggers liken to steal the Cunnel blin', he away so much.
Eight out in the street you go! The nerve! The dirty, lousy, low-down crook! A Bootleg gettin' stuck-up over money! The world is crazy, that's all there is to it! Crazy, I tell you! All turned upside-down! Listen. It's fifteen years I know this Bill. Them good old days, most every afternoon On the way home from the lumber yards I'd drop in And get a beer, and gas around a while.
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