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'Sure, says he, 'if the gentleman has the moind to wroite he'll wroite, if he has the moind to come aboard me meanin' his yacht he'll come aboard; and we'll be swimming in liquor together as gents should.
Out I wint round beyont the Pint Pescade, an' off wid me close an' into the say. Och! but it was plisint! Well, just as I was coming out, who should I see on the rocks above me but a big thief of an Arab? I knew at wance that if I was to putt on close he'd guess, maybe, who I was, so I came out o' the wather an' ran straight at him naked meanin' to frighten him away like.
"When a local god reappears on earth, it's always an excuse for trouble of some kind; and those Satpura Bhils are about as wild as your grandfather left them, young un. It means something." "Meanin' they may go on the war-path?" said Chinn. "'Can't say as yet. 'Shouldn't be surprised a little bit." "I haven't been told a syllable." "Proves it all the more. They are keeping something back."
"Beyond me and every ither in the land but ane, and it wud cost a hundred guineas tae bring him tae Drumtochty." "Certes, he's no blate; it's a fell chairge for a short day's work; but hundred or no hundred we 'ill hae him, an' no let Annie gang, and her no half her years." "Are ye meanin' it, Drumsheugh?" and MacLure turned white below the tan.
He said 't your bein' kicked was a judgment 'n' the sins o' the parents should be visited on the children even unto the third 'n' fourth generation. I did n't know whose sins he was meanin', the cow's or Jathrop's, but I did n't ask. I guess we 'd ought to make allowances f'r the minister, he ain't seemed to ever be able to bear up under them twins.
"It don't matter much, I reckon, so long as one gets your meanin', and as for the ladder, a monkey could do that." The irrelevant retort puzzled him, and her tone increased his annoyance. But why, he asked himself, should he trouble to lift her to a higher level of thought? He relapsed into silence.
"Why, as to that," said I, over my shoulder, "I neither eat nor drink with a man who doubts my word." "Meanin' those forty shillin'?" "Precisely!" "Well," said he, twisting his whisker with a thoughtful air, "if you could manage to mak' it twenty or even twenty-five, I might mak' some shift to believe it though 'twould be a strain, but forty! no, damme, I can't swaller that!"
"Meanin' to say that layin' on of hands by the Lord's an'inted is necessary to reel j'inin' in marriage." "But that's monstrous!" I stammered. "Dare say," said he. "It's the way white gospelers look at Injuns, ain't it?
"The mare is er rather fresh this morning, isn't she, Adam?" enquired Bellew, watching the dog-cart's rapid course. "Fresh sir?" "And that's rather a er dangerous sort of thing for a woman to drive, isn't it?" "Meanin' the dog-cart, sir?" "Meaning the dog-cart, Adam." "Why, Lord love ye, Mr.
"Meanin' ourselves?" he said. "Yes," said Paul. The others looked at his glowing face, and they were impressed. "Just how?" said Henry. "If the Miamis come at all, they will come in the night, and that is when ghosts should appear. I'll be a ghost and Jim Hart will be another. The rest of you can lay hidden, ready to use the rifles if they are needed." "Well planned!" said Henry Ware.
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