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But I kep' naggin at him, till I specs he got tired of my tongue, an' he went and buyed dis piece ob lan'. Dis house war on it, an' war all gwine to wrack. It used to belong to John's ole marster. His wife died right in dis house, an' arter dat her husband went right to de dorgs; an' now he's in de pore-house. My! but ain't dem tables turned. When we knowed it war our own, warn't my ole man proud!
"Didn't take Abe long to git to braggin' an' drinkin' an' naggin' an' hectorin' everything, 'mos', 'cept fightin'. Nobody ever drawed Abe Shivers into a fight. I don't know as he was afeerd; looked like Abe was a-havin' sech a tarnation good time with his devilmint he jes didn't want to run no risk o' havin' hit stopped. An' sech devilmint! Hit ud take a coon's age, I reckon, to tell ye.
And it was he who had set afloat a report, not unknown at the historic 'Swan, to the effect that for all so sweet as them two young gents did go about wi' one another, they was a naggin' like blazes every night, He came by now, driving his recovered cow before him, and passed within a foot of the Greek, who lay as still as death in the brushwood.
Are you goin' t' be one of them tormentin' women who is always naggin' a man about what he's doin' an' what he ain't a-doin'? Where's David?" "He's gone up into the Light, Susan Jane." The woman turned anxiously toward the window. "It's an awful storm risin', Janet. Wind off sea, but changin' every minute. Draw the shade.
When we got to the railway bridge he laid his hammers on the wall while he relit his pipe. I saw my last opportunity and seized it. "Say, Willie, did ye iver haave a feelin' that made ye feel fine all over and and made ye pray?" "I niver pray," he said. They're naggin at God from Aysther t' Christmas t' fill their pockets! A good day's stone breakin's my prayer.
But it was only for a minute, and he emerged in the returning light, and spoke 'A naggin of whiskey, at the Salmon House, to raise my heart before I came here. I'm not drunk that's sure. He answered, quite unmoved, like one speaking to himself. 'And why what can you mean by speaking of him? repeated Mervyn, unaccountably agitated. 'I speak for him, Sir, by your leave.
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