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"Posey," I said, "did you ever meet a bear, face to face, when you did n't have a gun?" "Lots of times!" "What did you do?" "Pooh! I don't care, if 't ain't a grizzly. If I meet a grizzly on the trail when I hain't no gun with me I don't tramp on his toes, you bet. I jest hide behind a bush and purtend I don't see him till he gets out the way.
Why, I'd dope their coffee and send 'em both to sleep till Man got outa the country, if I had to!" She stood with her hands upon her angular hips and glared at Val. "I sure would do that, very thing for you," she reiterated solemnly, "I don't purtend I'd do it for Man but I would for you. But it's likely Kent has fixed things up so they can't git nothing on Man if they try.
You needn't go for to really humble yourself afore that Macdougall; I only meant you to purtend like as how you thinks him a regular top-sawyer, and then you'll sail along without a chance of a squall Mr Ohlsen, the second mate, in charge o' your watch, is an easy-going chap, and you'll get on well enough with him."
I never could see what folks wanted to purtend they was other folks for, and sometimes to go a-talkin' as if they was come out of by-gone days. But if you're for takin' me to the theayter, I reckon I won't come to no harm by it. Enyhow, I know ye've got to come to city ways when ye're to the city; folks kinder look daggers at ye ef ye don't.
"Will ye purtend to deny " "Did I scheme and plot with Cyrus the Gaunt and young Stacey?" MacLachan mumbled something about undue influence. "Did I get arrested?" MacLachan grunted. "In a cellar?" MacLachan snorted. "With my nose painted green?" MacLachan groaned. "There was others," he pleaded.
"No, Nurse, I'm not a Christian," she said in the tone of one stating a disagreeable fact for which they are noways responsible. "My brother is and my sisters real good Christian people. One of my sisters married a gentleman up in Wales. She 'as two servants, an' fam'ly prayers reg'lar. But I've never felt no 'call, and I tell 'em I can't purtend. An' Mrs.
He calls yer to be a fader to her; an' from dis day yer is her fader 'member dat. But it may be jus' as well for yer to purtend to be her husband: 'at will keep de udder boys from pesterin' her. But 'member dis: de Lord will 'quire dat chile's happiness of yo' han's, an' will so do by yer as yer do by her. 'Be yer de angel ob de Lord, massa? says I. 'Clar' to goodness, sah!
I sez, if a parson wants to chuck a gel under the chin, let 'im do so by all means, God willin'! But don't let 'im purtend as 'e couldn't chuck 'er under the chin for the hull world! Don't let 'im go round lookin' as if 'e was vinegar gone bad, an' preach at the parish as if we was all mis'able sinners while 'e's the mis'ablest one hisself.
"Mein Gott! vat must be done now?" observed the corporal to those about him, looking at the mangy tail which still remained on the beef-block. "Done, corporal!" replied Smallbones; "why you must come for to go for to complain on it, as he comes on board. You must take the tail, and tell the tale, and purtend to be angry and as sorry as himself, and damn her up in heaps. That's what must be done."
"'Kase," he blurted out, "ye hev been a-tryin' ter purtend ez ye fund the mine fust, an' hev been a-tellin' folks 'bout'n it." "Prove it," said Birt, in sudden elation. "Who war it I tole, an' when?" The sly Nathan caught his breath with a gasp. His craft had returned. Admit that to HIM Birt had divulged the discovery of the mine! Confess, when! This would invalidate the entry!
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