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"Hev ye done run him offen yore place, too?" "Thet's my business." "Yes thet is, but yore runnin' me off's right severely mine." "Mebby I've got a rather who comes thar." "So hev I." There was a lurking, somewhat engaging impertinence even in Jerry's quietest rejoinders, a humorous boldness and self-confidence.
Tim Brady's boat would have held two as easy as one, Barney, and maybe the old hooker'd have weathered the storm with a few more repairs about her, that the squire always intended, as no one knows better than yourself! Oh, dear! oh, dear! But Heaven forgive us! putting off's been the ruin of the O'Moores from time out of mind. And now you're dead and gone dead and gone!
An' the lady in her white, she looks at the path and the gent 'e looks at 'er white boots an' I off's with me coat like that there Rally gent you yarned me about, and flops it down in the middle of the puddle, right in front of the gal. And she tips me a smile like a hangel and 'olds out 'er hand in 'er white glove and all and yer know what my 'ands is like, matey." "Yes," said Dickie, "go on."
Then Jack of the Smithies cut things short. "Off's the word," he said, "if ever I expects to see home afore daylight. All of these moors is known to me, and many's the time I have tracked them all in sleep, when the round world was betwixt us. But without any moon it is hard to do 'em waking; and the loss of my arm sends me crooked in the dark. And as for young folk, they be all abroad to once.
Williams, he sings out to me, 'how fur off's the horizon? "'Why, I answered, 'from this height I should say a matter of six mile and a half." 'And how fur distant, Captain Williams, says the lady, smiling sweetly, and pretty nigh confusing my brains by the beautiful look she gave me, 'would a vessel like ours be seen?
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