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'Tis a pra-aper old fam'ly: all the women is Margery, Pasiance, or Mary; all the men's Richards an' Johns an' Rogers; old as they apple-trees." Rick Voisey was a rackety, hunting fellow, and "dipped" the old farm up to its thatched roof.
Young girls are skeery critters" he brushed his sleeve over his broad, hard jaws, and filled a pipe "specially when it's in the blood of 'em. Squire Rick Voisey werr a dandy; an' Mistress Voisey well, she werr a nice lady tu, but" rolling the stem of his pipe from corner to corner of his mouth "she werr a pra-aper vixen."
A pra-aper name that a dandy name for her!" They laughed as they made fast. The mate of the Sunflower, or Pied Witch, or whatever she was called, met us a tall young fellow in his shirtsleeves, tanned to the roots of his hair, with sinewy, tattooed arms, and grey eyes, charred round the rims from staring at weather. "The skipper is on board," he said. "We're rather busy, as you see.
Then suddenly screwing up his little blue eyes, he added: "Why, I remembers yu. Steered yu along o' the young lady in this yer very craft." It was Prawle, Zachary Pearse's henchman. "Yes," he went on, "that's the cutter." "And Captain Pearse?" He leant his back against the quay, and spat. "He was a pra-aper man; I never zane none like 'en." "Did you do any good out there?"
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