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It was the lad who had peached upon him about the grocer's cart, but he bore little malice, not at least towards the young and small. "How dare you, sir, break the bottle?" says Cuff to the little urchin, swinging a yellow cricket-stump over him. "How dare you, sir, break it?" says Cuff; "you blundering little thief. You drank the shrub, and now you pretend to have broken the bottle.
"Had they been spent in his old haunts or in any of the well-known drinking saloons of the city, some one would have peached on him before this," he went on, in silent argument with himself.
It was the lad who had peached upon him about the grocer's cart; but he bore little malice, not at least towards the young and small. "How dare you, sir, break the bottle?" says Cuff to the little urchin, swinging a yellow cricket-stump over him. "How dare you, sir, break it?" says Cuff; "you blundering little thief. You drank the shrub, and now you pretend to have broken the bottle.
"It's the meanest thing out, that splitting on a pal," said the man who had been called Michael. "It's twice worse when one does it to one's father. I wouldn't show a ha'porth of mercy to such a chap as that." "And to a Catholic as peached to a Prothestant," said Carroll, intending to signify his hatred of such a wretch by spitting on the ground.
And it was by the merest ill luck that I missed inheriting her wealth that damned slave who peached about the poison I had bought! I was turned out neck and crop, but even so I did not starve. I have my professional position and am well known in the courts especially for collusion and the corruption-agency which I keep for credulous litigants.
Why would you go out on the wet grass? Is there none of the black currant jam left?" "No, mother," coughed Minny, "not a bit." "Greg ate it all," peached Sarah, an elder sister; "I told him not, but he would." "Greg, I'll have you flogged, and you never shall come from school again. What's that you're saying, Mary?" "There's a jintleman in the drawing-room as is axing afther masther."
Three times I've stopped a mutiny for you, an' you'd be dead an' buried if I hadn't. Then came this last when things went wrong. You say the girl peached, but 'tween you an' me I say you tried to turn State's evidence don't deny anything," he held up his hand when the other would have interrupted. "That's passed now.
"Those girls thought they had kept it so quiet, but some one must have 'peached, I suppose, to curry favor. Whatever made you go, Maggie? You know you have never mixed yourself up with that Day, and Merton, and Marsh set. As to that poor Polly Singleton, there's no harm in her, but she's a perfect madcap. What could have possessed you to go?" "My evil genius," repeated Maggie in a gloomy tone.
He wanted her to go with him to the officer of the station, but she said that she would never do that, for if it got to be known that she had peached about it, it would be as much as her life was worth.
He'll get his before I take chances of getting caught. I'm nobody's fool." Cass snapped him up. "You'll do as I say. You'll not lift a finger against him unless he tries to escape." "Have you seen the Sentinel? I tell you his friends know everything. Someone's peached. They're hot on our trail. Bucky O'Connor is in the hills. Think I'm going to be caught like a rat in a trap?"
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