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"Stuff!" said Mrs. Mivers. "Purtected!" exclaimed Mrs. Mivers, in an indignant tone of astonishment, and agitating the formidable umbrella; "as if I was not enough, with the help of this here domestic commodity, to purtect a dozen such. Purtected, indeed!" "John is right, Mrs. M., business is business," said Mr. Mivers.
He wanted to be her knight" an uncomplimentary thumb indicated the Honorable Archie "and and so did I." This time his eyes went to Barbara, who was listening, her teeth sunk in her lip. "He wanted to be her knight an' an' he ain't got no call to be, because in case of trouble, or anything, he couldn't purtect her! He couldn't fight good enough to take good keer o' her, because I kin fight better.
"I cannot see, but I can feel," said Nigel, with a soft laugh, as he passed the pillow aft. "T'ank ee, Nadgel," said Moses; "here feel behind you an' you'll find grub for yourself an' some to pass forid to massa. Mind when you slip down for go to sleep dat you don't dig your heels into massa's skull. Dere's no bulkhead to purtect it."
That's what about it." "Really!" said I. "A very modest request, very modestly put. Is it permissible to ask why you want those things, and in what way you purpose to use them?" "Oh yes, cert'nly," was the reply. "There's no objections to you astin' as many questions as you bloomin' well likes. We wants 'em to purtect ourselves again' that snarlin', savage leopard o' yours.
One of 'm is always sayin' 'just so." "That is Miss Sophia Grant." "Just so," said Andy, mimicking her. "You mustn't do that, Andy. Then it's them you're workin' for?" "Yes, and they're mighty kind. I'm goin' back to sleep there to-night. They want a man to purtect them." Mary laughed. "Do you call yourself a man, Andy? What could you do if a burglar tried to get in?"
It 'pears to me that, allowin' that to be gospel truth, them ther papers orter be in MY possession you hevin' so to speak no rights to purtect, bein' off the board with this yer young lady, and bein' moved gin'rally by free and independent cussedness.
It makes me powerful oneasy whenever I know ye air all drunk an' a-gallopadin' down hyar, an' no mo' able to act reasonable in case o' need an' purtect yersefs agin spies an' revenuers an' sech 'n nuthin' in this worl'. The las' raid, ye 'member, we hed the still over yander;" he jerked his thumb in the direction present to his thoughts, but unseen by his coadjutors; "a man war wounded, an' we dun'no' but what killed in the scuffle, an' it mought be a hang-in' matter ter git caught now.
"It is not at all unlikely, Bunting; and as we are now not far from Knaresbro', it will be prudent to ride on as fast as our horses will allow us. Keep up alongside." "Certainly I'll purtect your honour," said the Corporal, getting on that side where the hedge being thinnest, an ambush was less likely to be laid. "I care more for your honour's safety than my own, or what a brute I should be augh!"
"Behave yourself, Alick; it's a shame for you to be sich a hardened crathur: upon my sannies, I blieve your afeard of neither God nor the divil the Lord purtect and guard us from the dirty baste!" "You mane particklarly them that uses short measures and light weights," rejoined M'Kinley. There was another pause, for the horseman was within a few perches of the crossroads.
"Well," returned Uncle Ben, planting himself in the aisle before his opponent, "I ain't doin' no sheriff's posse business jest now, but I reckon to keep my hand in far enuff to purtect other folks' property," he added, with a significant glance at the broken lock of the desk. "Ben Dabney," said Seth in snarling expostulation, "I hain't got no quar'll with ye!"
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