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Something they can learn, oh, yes, may-be! But the secret what make the rose to red, the sky to blue, the man to love IN DER BRUST, IN DER BRUST it is, UND OHNE DIESES GIEBT ES KEINE KUNST, GIEBT ES KEINE KUNST!" He threw up his square hand and shook it, all the fingers apart and wagging. Purple and breathless he went out of the arbor and into the house, without saying good-bye.
I have often thought it the most beautiful trait in an otherwise rough and crude nature. Let it but be known that a poor woman is left helpless to struggle through a hard and selfish world, may-be children to add to her difficulties, then you shall see that the sailor's heart is in the right place; then all private animosity against the deceased is swallowed up in the "charity which is kind."
"Well, Major don't have nothin' to trouble her, mother," says I. "She's all safe and pleasant to home; she a'n't homesick." Mother spoke up pretty resolute: "There a'n't nobody in the world, Anny, but what has troubles. I didn't calculate to tell you about Major's; but sence you lay her lively ways to luck, may-be you'd better know 'em.
'Tell truth, lad! Dannel Robson 'd niver have a call fra' thee if he hadn't a pretty daughter. 'Indeed, but he would, replied Charley, rather annoyed; 'when I've said a thing, I do it. I promised last night to go see him; besides, I like the old man. 'Well! when shall we tell mother yo're comin' whoam? 'Toward eight o'clock may-be sooner.
Was it a giant on a lonely coast, or thick low growth blistered in ravines and dells? That's the witchery of amber, that it has no cause, that all the world grew to produce it, may-be died and gave no other sign, that its tree, which must have been beautiful, dropped all its fruits; and how bursting with juice must they have been" "Unfortunately, coniferous." "Be quiet.
'I ha' spent my money pretty free, he said, 'and I've ne'er a penny to the fore, and yo'r parents may look for something better for yo', my pretty: but when I come back fro' this voyage I shall stand a chance of having a share i' th' Urania, and may-be I shall be mate as well as specksioneer; and I can get a matter of from seventy to ninety pound a voyage, let alone th' half-guineas for every whale I strike, and six shilling a gallon on th' oil; and if I keep steady wi' Forbes and Company, they'll make me master i' time, for I've had good schooling, and can work a ship as well as any man; an' I leave yo' wi' yo'r parents, or take a cottage for yo' nigh at hand; but I would like to have something to the fore, and that I shall have, please God, when we come back i' th' autumn.
I only thought, may-be, she having been of use " "I'll sell the cottage and the bits of things," said Peter, "and there's a trifle put by to add to it. But tell me this; when you're out there, can you support her, or can't you?" "Well, there's Mr. Boucher, that took me on as house-servant at first in New Zealand, he being in the sailing ship when I was picked up.
"That dog can't come," said the woman, losing for the first time her pleasant smile. "May-be he's your's though, madam?" she said apologetically. "No, he's mine, and I must have him with me," broke in Margaret, "and I cannot-" She stopped short, frightened at her own earnest words and manner. "I think he will be better off with me," said Mrs. Armstrong; "I will keep him for you."
Aye, 'tis a wonderful thing is hunger, and the gift of the Lord along with good roast beef and pork sausages. May-be you find yourself a bit peckish, captain?"
"Do you mean," said Peter, "that you can't support her?" "Well, you see, I worked my passage from New Zealand as cook that's what I waited so long for. If she could pay her passage, the same captain would take us again, when he starts to go back next week. And if she had a little in hand, when we got there, we could set up a store, may-be, and make shift to get on.
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