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That is I guess mebbe I did wave me piece around while I was arguin' I can always convince a guy better if I got somethin' in me hand. But I didn't git real rough." "You are lucky to be still alive, Senhor Tim," said Lourenço. "If Monitaya were not the man he is you would not be alive. I am glad we have returned." "Meanin' I need a guardeen? Say, lookit here now " "As you were!" clipped McKay.
"Meanin' the weskit, sir?" asked Treacher. "Is it a waistcoat?" "Well, sir, it used to be an antimacassar; but Miss Gabriel had it made up for me, all the shirts in store bein' used up, so to speak." Too well the Commandant recognised it; an abomination of crochet work in stripes, four inches wide, of scarlet, green, orange-yellow, and violet.
"I didn't expect to see you till tomorrow." Bulger winked. "You wouldn't axe if you wasn't a landlubber, meanin' no offense," he said. "'Tis last night ashore. We sailor men has had enough o' Waterman's Rests an' such like. To tell you the truth, we gave Mr. Toley the slip, and now we be goin' to have a night at the Crown an' Anchor." "What about the press gang?" "We takes our chance.
Macy near as much as Mrs. Macy wants to marry Mr. Dill. Mrs. Macy says he's pesterin' her to death, an' Mr. Dill says if it's pesterin' to speak when you're spoken to, he must buy a new dictionary an' learn the new meanin' of the words by heart. Between ourselves, I guess Mr. Dill is learnin' the lesson of wedded bliss from lookin' at Lucy an' rememberin' her mother.
"But how in the world did you make such awful sounds?" "I'm thinkin' it's the bit squeakie ye'll be meanin'?" he inquired. "Yes; how did you do it?" "Oh, it's juist the pipes!" he answered, patting them affectionately, "will I show ye the noo?"
It was so unexpected, in fact, that for the moment she tottered perilously near the verge of hysterics. The children actually grinned; while Bridget remarked, with a chuckle: "Ye are afther meanin' that he didn't come back that's what!" And then she added, as an afterthought, "He said to tell ye 'God bless ye, Miss Peggie."
Last fall, said he, I was on my way to Partridge Island, to ship off some truck and produce I had taken in, in the way of trade; and as I neared old Furlong's house, I seed an amazin crowd of folks about the door; I said to myself, says I, whose dead, and what's to pay now what on airth is the meanin of all this? Is it a vandew, or a weddin, or a rolin frolick, or a religious stir, or what is it?
And the pale, swinish eyes twinkled as they stared across at the dull sorrow of the old man. There was an ominous sound from Pierre: "Do you let a thing like that happen in this country?" he asked fiercely. The other turned to him with a sneer. "Let it happen? Who'll stop him? Say, partner, you ain't meanin' to say that you don't know who Hurley is?" "I don't need telling. I can see."
"What did you do then?" asked Christie in a most flattering state of interest. "Oh, law! I went right home and hugged them children for a couple of hours stiddy," answered Mrs; Wilkins, as if but one conclusion was possible. "Did all your troubles go down with the pig?" asked Christie, presently. "Massy, no, we're all poor, feeble worms, and the best meanin' of us fails too often," sighed Mrs.
If you send me to any orphan-asylum, I'll send you to some place where you'll be better off, too, sir." "Meanin'?" Peter Champneys shot at the stout vestryman a glance like the thrust of a golden spear. "The cemetery, Mr. McMasters," said he, with the deadly South Carolina gentleness. The two stared at each other. It wasn't the boy's glance that fell first. "Threatenin' me, hey?
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