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"Bring the man," said the doctor, briskily. "Well, zur," said she, "Jim ain't here. You couldn't do it 'ithout Jim bein' here, could you?" "Oh, no!" "I 'lowed you might be able," she said, with a little sigh, "if you tried. But you couldn't, says you?" "No." "Jim he 'lowed two year ago it ought t' be done. You couldn't do it nohow?" The doctor shook his head. "Couldn't make a shift at it?" "No."
Waule, who both occupied land of their own, took a long time to arrive at this conclusion, their minds halting at the vivid conception of what it would be to cut the Big Pasture in two, and turn it into three-cornered bits, which would be "nohow;" while accommodation-bridges and high payments were remote and incredible. "The cows will all cast their calves, brother," said Mrs.
And, if I can't stop boozin' nohow, what's the good of throwin' away the good booze I already got, when I'd just have to order another keg and maybe have to go thirsty waitin' for it to come up." "All right, old man," I laughed, slapping him between the shoulders, "please yourself and good luck to your attempt, anyway." "Say! George." "Yes!"
And Tiburcio can't hold four of them, nohow. Lance, it looks like you'd send one of the boys to drive me down to the ferry." "Why, Lord love you, girl, those mules are as gentle as kittens; and you don't suppose I'm going to put some gringo over a veteran like Tiburcio. Why, that old boy used to drive for Santa Anna during the invasion in '36.
"Fetch me the telescope, Mivins," said the captain, calling down the hatchway. "Ay, ay, sir," answered the steward. "Where's my hatchet?" cried Peter Grim, striding about the deck, and looking into every corner in search of his missing implement. "It's my best one, and I can't get on without it, nohow." The captain bit his lip for he knew full well the cause of its absence.
But Johnny stood as firm as the rock o' Gibralty, an' told 'er, he did, that his plighted wife jest shouldn't run about an' disgrace 'em right on the eve of marriage, and said a lot about folks walkin' over dead bodies an' swimmin' rivers o' blood, an' the like. Well, all that finally made Carrie mad, an' she told 'im he was jest a boy, an' that she had never meant to marry 'im, nohow.
"'How would a hundred and forty strike you, cash down? he said. "'I'm needing the other ten, I said. 'I'm a one-price man. I didn't start the talk, nohow. "'Well, we won't fight over the ten, he said, 'but here is one trouble, Alf. You are under age, and I don't often trade with minors.
I don't feel half safe wid it nohow, till we find out jes what we wants ter do wid it. I 'lows dat we'd better buy a plantation somewheres. Den I kin wuk it, yer know, an' you kin hev a shop, an' so we kin go cahoots, an' git along right smart. Yer see, ef we do dat, we allers hez a livin', anyhow, an' der ain't no such thing ez spendin' an' losin' what we've got."
"Ever think of marryin', yourself, Mr. Spackles?" "Figgered some. Figgered some. But knowed they wasn't no use. Son and daughter wouldn't hear to it. Couldn't support a wife, nohow. Son and daughter calc'lates to be mighty kind to me, Scattergood, and gives me dum near all I kin ask, but both of 'em says I got to the time of life where it hain't becomin' in 'em to allow me to work."
Then, as the day wore on, he calmed down, and tried to bribe the coloured man into giving him something to eat and to drink. Pompey was obdurate. "Can't do it, nohow," he said. "It's ag'in Mars' Radbury's ordahs, sah." A wounded man always craves water, and by one o'clock in the afternoon the half-breed's tongue was fairly lolling out of his mouth. He stood it awhile longer, then summoned Pompey.
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