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'And if you hadn't made up your mind to go to Thompsontown, you and me'd never got stuck at the toll-gate with nothin' but a five-dollar note. I'm mighty glad we was stuck, Cap'n Abner; I'm mighty glad we was stuck! "Thereupon the two friends shook hands again. "'But there is one thing I want to ask, said Sam. 'What about the gilded idol and the king conch-shell?
She ain't much of a hand to tell her business, and I thought she had well, about run through her pile." "She can get the money if she will have common-sense," said Welborne; "but women never know how to 'tend to business, and she may act stubborn to the end and force me to put up the land for sale. It wouldn't fetch much, and you and me'd both lose by it.
Twomey responded with a long and jubilant crow of laughter. "Yerra, gerr'l alive !" she corrected herself quickly. "My lady alive, I should say sure a little thing like me'd tell lies as fast as a hen'd pick peas!" The modesty, as well as the accuracy, of this statement silenced Miss Coppinger for a moment. "Then you ought to be ashamed of yourself!" she resumed with much severity.
Pulcifer's assortment of watch charms and shivered with embarrassment. "Ain't it funny, now?" queried Raish, addressing the world in general. "Ain't it funny how things happen? When I fetched you over in my car t'other night didn't I say I hoped you and me'd meet again? That's what I said. And now we've met twice since. Once in the old boneyard and now here, eh?
If they'd been plumb strangers, 'stead o' friends o' one o' our parties, it's more'n likely brother 'n' me'd wore out a pair o' saplings over their fool heads, 'n' paddled off 'n left them t' tump-line theirselves out o' th' bush. But I told brother 't was only a day or two more, 'n' we'd chew our own cheeks 'stead o' their ears.
A single hour lost may lose Mobile or a battle." "Then maybe Sid an' me'd both better go, Sid to do the fast running an' me to show him the way." "There's no use of both of you going," replied Sam, "but if you had had a couple of days rest I would send you instead of Sid, because you know the way, and I don't believe anybody can make the distance any quicker than you have done it."
"I don't imagine we can keep her that long." "No," reflectively; "the chances are she'd want ter git married inside of that time. They always "'Tain't that, Anderson. You an' me'd have to live to be more'n a hundred years old." "That's so. We ain't spring chickens, are we, deary?" She put her hard, bony hand in his and there was a suspicion of moisture in the kindly old eyes.
"Go slow, Corney." But Mr. Quilty dismissed this preliminary objection with a wave of his hand. "Thim's figgers iv speech. I assume yez are innocent until yez are caught. Faix, it's not me'd give th' hot tip iv a warnin' to a crim'nal. But whisper now! Th' comp'ny is for siftin' this outrageous outrage to th' bottom, an' then liftin' th' bottom to look under it.
"I wouldn't wait too long, if I was you. She might take a notion to somebody else, you know, and then you and me'd be nowhere." "Has she, Mis' Starling?" Will asked, terrified. "She hain't told me nothing of it, if she has; and I hain't seen her look sweet on anybody; but she might, you know, Will, if anybody came along that she fancied.
He continued until he had the barrel of the gun filled, and then stopped to admire his cunning. "Now, nobody but me'd ever thought o' hidin' money in a gun. That's safe, as least. All I've got to do is to stick to my gun until we git acrost the Ohio River. But I hain't got the tenth part in; where kin I put the rest? O, there's my cartridge-box and cap-box.
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