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That stutterin' leaves him when he preaches, and when he leads the shout in meetin' it's piercin' as a horn." "He's a bloody Romany rogue," Joe Johnson muttered, "to tell me such a tale! But, kirjalis! he cursed not me!" "What language is that, Mr. Johnson? Is it Dutch or Porteygee?" "It's what we call the gypsy; some calls it the Quaker.
Weller still kept his eye fixed upon the unsuspecting victim, that nobody cared to speak for some little time, and might not have cared to do so for some time longer, if the housekeeper had not happened to sigh, which called off the old gentleman's attention and gave rise to a gallant inquiry whether 'there wos anythin' wery piercin' in that 'ere little heart? 'Dear me, Mr.
Tharfore, when this gent names four bits, I onpouches the dinero an' prepares to take a astronomic peek. ""How long do I gaze for four bits?" I asks, battin' my right eye to get it into piercin' shape. ""Go as far as you likes," retorts the philosopher; "thar's no limit."
"I've heerd o' folk sellin' theirselves to the devil afore now." said he. "You be a danged fule, Joel Amos!" exclaimed the Ancient angrily. "Fule or no I never see a chap wi' such a tur'ble dark-lookin' face afore, an' wi' such eyes so black, an' sharp, an' piercin' as needles, they be ah! goes through a man like two gimblets, they do!"
"Oh, yes you can," from Charlie Christian, who hovers round her like the moth round the candle. "No, really, I can't." "Yes you can," from Dan McCoy, who is on the alert; "I see your piercin' black eyes comin' right through the hankitchif." "Get along, then," cries Adams, twirling Sally round, and skipping out of the way.
Then there wuz some native Arabs with 'em who wuz a-eatin' scorpions, and a-luggin' round snakes, and a-cuttin' and piercin' themselves with wicked-lookin' weepons, and eatin' glass; I wuz glad enough to git out of there. I hate daggers, and abominate snakes, and always did.
She faced danger, and died a hundred deaths in the thought of the danger to them she loved. I see the very splinters that the cruel shells and cannon balls split and tore right over her head. Good honorable splinters and not skairful to look at today, but hard, and piercin', and harrowin' through them days and nights.
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