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"Eh mun, mun, if we are a' drooned, as seems likely, it's an awfu' thing to appear before your Maker wi' your meeserable soul a' steeped in drink." "You go down and have a drink yourself," Miggs cried huskily. "Na, na. If I am to dee, I'll dee sober." "You'll die a fool," the skipper shouted wrathfully.
Can't you see I'm a foreign gent from abroad? The police ain't after me take my word for it. I've come back here because you always made me snug and comfortable. I'll have the room, and if you want to see the color of my money " He produced a half-sovereign, and a relenting effect was immediately visible. A brief parley ensued, which ended in Mrs. Miggs pocketing the money and inviting Mr.
Elise had already made friends with her room-mate, a little dumpling of a girl by the name of Agnes Olive Miggs, and was calling her A.O. as every one else did. In five minutes Mary was calling her A.O. too, and wishing a little enviously that either one of these bright friendly girls could have fallen to her lot instead of the polite iceberg she had run away from.
"Did you read it?" "No; I threw it overboard." "And what became of the negro?" "Well," said Miggs with a grin, "when I threw the writ overboard he happened to be a-holdin' on to it. So, ye see, he went over, too. Then I up anchor and scooted." "There are sharks about there?" "A few." "Really, Miggs," the merchant said, "you must restrain your sinful passions.
Having spoken these words, Miss Miggs made divers efforts to rub her shoulders in an impossible place, and shivered from head to foot; thereby giving the beholders to understand that the imaginary cascade was still in full flow, but that a sense of duty upheld her under that and all other sufferings, and nerved her to endurance.
It was a part of the certain uncertainty of Mrs Varden's temper, that when they were in this condition, she should be gay and sprightly. 'I need have a cheerful disposition, I am sure, said the smiling housewife, 'to preserve any spirits at all; and how I do it I can scarcely tell. 'Ah, mim, sighed Miggs, 'begging your pardon for the interruption, there an't a many like you.
The Black Eagle shall certainly have an overhauling next time, and we'll see if we can't give her captain an increase at the same time." Miggs gave a grunt which, might be taken as expressing thanks or as signifying doubt. Perhaps there was a mixture of both in his mind. "I presume," Girdlestone said, in a conciliatory voice, "that there would be no real danger as long as the weather was fine?"
I couldn't put in there, for the swabs have got a warrant out ag'in me for putting a charge o' shot into a nigger." "That was a wicked action very wrong, indeed," the merchant said gravely. "You must consider the interests of the firm, Miggs. We can't afford to have a good port blocked against our ships in this fashion. Did they serve this writ on you?" "Another nigger brought it aboard."
Poor Dolly, however, grew none the better for these restoratives, but rather worse, indeed; and seeing that she was really ill, both Mrs Varden and Miggs were moved to compassion, and tended her in earnest.
'I was really afraid you were not disposed to talk pleasantly; I'll tell you everything; I shall only be too glad, my dear. 'No, Varden, returned his wife, rising with dignity. 'I dare say thank you! I'm not a child to be corrected one minute and petted the next I'm a little too old for that, Varden. Miggs, carry the light. YOU can be cheerful, Miggs, at least.
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