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She says to me this mornin', says she, `The'll be a stiff breeze afore night, Teddy, an' I nivver found the widdy wrong in her forecasts o' the weather." "The distance decreases rapidly! Hurrah! boys, we'll catch them yet," cried Dominick. This was obviously the case. With her large sails filled by a stiff breeze almost directly astern, the boat went through the water like "a thing of life."
"It's because he likes us, Dick," said Tom merrily. "Nay, that I don't," cried Dave. "I hate the lot of you. Not one of you'll be satisfied till you've spoiled all my fen-land, and made it a place where nivver a bird will come." "Why, I wouldn't have it touched if I could help it St! Dave, what bird's that?" said Dick.
"If I'd ever dreamed what would come of it, horses couldn't have dragged me into the affair!" almost whimpered Reynolds. "An' now ye're in it, it won't do yez nivver a bit av good to whoine, me b'y." "All you can do is brace up and face it out," said Hodge. "That's what the rest of us will have to do. It's likely we'll all be fired from the academy for our shares in the business."
"She's nobbut a laal bit quieter, that's all," said Matthew Branthwaite one morning when he turned in at Shoulthwaite. "The dame nivver were much of a talker not to say a talker, thoo knows; but mark me, she loves a crack all the same." Matthew acted pretty fully upon his own diagnosis of his old neighbor's seizure.
It's almost certain the Confederates will try to hold the city, and there may be a bombardment. The city may be taken and retaken half-a-dozen times before the war is over." "Mr. Richlin'," said Kate, with a majestic lifting of the hand, "I'll nivver rin away from the Yanks." "No, but you must go away from them.
He stood before Frank's friends, grinning bashfully and bowing awkwardly. "O'Toole," said Bart, shaking the Irishman's hand, "you never did a better bit of work in all your life than when you shot Porfias del Norte." "It's not so sure Oi am av that," declared the man. "It's nivver a bit will Oi shlape till Oi know fer sure th' baste is dead an' burried six fate under ground."
When yo' wur searchin' fur drift to keep up th' fire after th' owd mon deed an' left yo' alone, happen yo' nivver guessed as it wur me as heaped little piles i' th' nooks o' th' rocks so as yo'd think 'at th' tide had left it theer happen yo' did n't, but it wur true. I've stayed round the old house many a neet, feared summat mought harm yo', an' yo' know yo' niwer gave me a good word, Meg.
These men began to grumble at their loss, and to be quite sure that "t' old squire would nivver hev let 'em lose a farthing;" and to look so pointedly at Miss Hallam, even on Sundays, that she felt the road to and from church a way of sorrow and humiliation. Nor could she wholly blame them.
"I couldn't frame mysen to sleep to-night, Miss Hallam, till I said a word to you. God gave you a glad surprise this morning; that's his way mostly. Hev you noticed that great blessings come when we are nivver expecting 'em?" "No, I don't think I have; and why should they?" "I hev my own thoughts about it. Mebbe it isnt allays as easy for God's angels to do his will as we think for.
Wringing her hands and ruefully shaking her head, Mary walked first to one end and then to the other of the long room. Finally she broke out in healthy Yorkshire dialect: "Wheere, oh, wheere can that lad John be? I'm crazed wi' all this trouble; nivver did I see the missus so worked up before, and she winna change her mind, no matter what is said.
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