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Then he sized up the moral odds; and though a biased audience might be at first supposed to weigh against him too, the sight of all those Arabs waiting to see him beaten roused his fighting dander. "Do you represent the bloke that spat on us two men?" asked Crothers. "Ah represent maself! Ah'm English! Ah fight English, and Ah'll prove it!" "Aw, wade into him!" advised Joe Byng.
And the little girls worked at sewing and making bandages. I dinna ken just what these folk that are so disturbed aboot our boys and girls wad be wanting. Maybe they're o' the sort who think bairns should be seen and not heard. I'm not one of those, maself I like to meet a bairn that's able and willing to stand up and talk wi' me.
"Take a seat; you don't look as though you are very well," pointing to a chair near by. "I'm jes' lookin' aroun'," answered the man, lowering himself into the chair with difficulty. "I'm er carp'nter maself." "Yes? Where are you from?" asked Mr. Lewis. "From the South Wilmington," was the reply. "Oh, that's the scene of recent riots. What's the matter with those people down there crazy?"
"If yo' lets me 'spressify maself," said Uncle Rufus, slowly, "I'd say dat mebbe I could put him in one oh de hen runs. We don't need 'em both jest now." "Goody!" cried Tess and Dot, clapping their hands. "Let's, Ruthie!" The older sister's doubts were overborne. She agreed to the proposal, while Agnes said: "We might as well have a goat. We have a pig 'most every day. That pig of Mr.
"You shall not think you got me into trouble. You did not. I would have done it maself as soon as I thought of it." "I command you to tell me what has been said to you, Etienne." "They say that I shall be discharge from the rack. They say I have talk too much to my compatriots about the poison water. But I shall talk yes jesso!" "Who says so?" "The yard boss say to me that. Oh, there's no mistake.
I'se foh sale." "For sale!" The girl took in the quaint figure with a glance of blank astonishment. "Why," she gasped, "surely you " "I'se ol', Miss," he interrupted timidly, but meeting her gaze with unwavering sincerity; "I specs I'se mos' a hundred; but I'se powahful tough an' full o' work, an' an', Miss, I has to sell maself tonight 'cause 'cause "
Sarge's gone out to git stewed, an' the Loot's away." "Sure," said another man, "we kin stay out as late's we goddam please tonight." "There's a new M.P. in town," said Chrisfield.... "Ah saw him maself.... You did, too, didn't you, Andy?" Andrews nodded. He was looking at the Frenchman, who sat with his face in shadow and his black lashes covering his eyes.
Back through the snow in his rickety carriage rolled Uncle Noah, rattling home along the snowy road down which he had trudged in the early evening, chuckling now intermittently in a mental rehearsal of his new plan. "Fifty cents a day!" he thought, "an' to-morrow I'se a-goin' to slip over to Fernlands in de mornin' an' ask her to lemme buy maself back on de 'stallment plan.
"Couldn't do no better maself," she declared. "Bymeby Dinah will be cut out of a job wid Miss Nan a-doin' ob de bakin'." "No, Dinah, you shall stay even if I do do the baking," answered Nan; and went to bed feeling very happy.
"But I want to speak to tell him We can talk over there beside the tree and will not be heard. It is to Mr. Farr I wish to speak. I saw him when he climbed the fence." She hurried her appeal with pitiful eagerness. "Ah yes, I have one little gate for maself for my frien' for hees frien', ma'm'selle. I will break the rule. You shall come in."
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