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'Ee wanted to see summat, 'ee said an' I dessay 'ee did. An' people began to taak. Last night theer wor a bit of a roompus, it seems, while Mrs. Costrell was a-payin' another o' them things, an' summat as was said come to my ears an' come to Watson's. An' me an' Watson 'ave been makin' inquiries an' Mr. Dawson wor obligin' enough to make me a small loan, 'ee wor.
'I'm afraid you'll find it inconveniently large. 'Don't mention it, said Sam, taking a letter with a small enclosure. 'It's just possible as exhausted natur' may manage to surwive it. 'I hope we shall meet again, Sir, said the powdered-headed footman, rubbing his hands, and following Sam out to the door-step. 'You are wery obligin', sir, replied Sam.
"'Tis a letter from the woman t' Wolf Cove." "Then," said I, with a frown, "we'd best burn it." She mused a moment. "He never got a letter afore," she said, looking up. "Not many folk has," I objected. "He'd be wonderful proud," she continued, "o' just gettin' a letter." "But she's a wily woman," I protested, in warning, "an' he's a most obligin' man.
I wonder now in thim days that my ears did not grow a yard on me head wid list'nin'. But I looked straight forninst me an' hauled up this an' dragged down that, such as was my duty, an' the orf'cers' ladies sez one to another, thinkin' I was out av listen-reach: 'Fwhat an obligin' young man is this Corp'ril Mulvaney! I was a Corp'ril then.
Grandma!" says she; 'and don't you tell her! don't you; for it would seem as though I was obligin' her, and if she forgives me and is friendly I don't want it to be for that, And I didn't say as I should or shouldn't tell," said Grandma, smilingly unconscious of the two large tears that were stealing down her cheeks; "but I knowed pretty well what I had on my mind!"
Involuntarily he swung one of his own booted feet out of the stirrup as if to assure himself that he still had adequate covering for his cold toes. "It ain't the first time in this heah war," Kirby remarked. "They'll ketch 'em a Yankee. The blue bellies, they're mighty obligin' 'bout wearin' good shoes an' such, an' lettin' themselves be roped with all their plunder on.
An' so it came out, one thing in the way o' talk leading to another, and those American people at Veering Holler was very obligin' with news, I'm told, ma'am." "Great Scott!" said George, under his breath. "And this is the simple peasant!" "Yiss," Mrs. Cloke went on.
Is he a tall man, with a hooked nose; and does he dip snuff?" queried Jack, innocently enough. "That's Solus to a dot. You see, boys, he's from North Caroliny, where even the wimmen use snuff, only they rub it on their teeth with a stick. Now, mebbe one of you boys would be so obligin' as to direct us to the shortest way to where this old mill stands," continued the man with the bogus orb.
"Turn the punt over," said I, quickly. "They's wind enough for that, man! An' 'tis your only chance, Skipper Tommy 'tis the only chance you got if she begins t' cry." He was dispirited. "I wisht," he said, sadly, "that the Lard hadn't made me quite so obligin'!" "'Tis too bad!" "Ay," he sighed, "'tis too bad I can't trust meself in the company o' folk that's givin' t' weepin'."
"Oh no, my purty," answered O'Gorman, with the leer of a satyr, "we'd take moighty good care you didn't do that. If Misther Conyers won't be obligin', why, we'll have to spare him, I s'pose; but we couldn't do widout you, my dear; what'd we do " I could bear no more. "Silence, you blackguard!"
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