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'Tis mistress of this house she ought to be by rights, leastways when his Lordship and her Ladyship are gone to their rest; and long may it be before they go! So you're here with Miss Mary, Miss Bawn, honey? And wasn't it the quarest thing at all that you should walk into the house and find Captain Anthony in it?" "I was nearly running out of it," I said. "I was frightened of all the empty rooms.
Fac', it 'peared lack Dave done gone clean out'n his mine. En atter a w'ile he got one er de quarest notions you eber hearn tell un. It wuz 'bout dat time dat I come back ter de plantation fer ter wuk, I had be'n out ter Mars Dugal's yuther place on Beaver Crick for a mont' er so.
'Oh! by my sowkins, says the priest, 'it'll be the quarest ghost in the siven parishes, says he, 'if it has the courage to come back, says he, 'afther what I'll do this mornin', plase God, says he; 'so we'll say twelve pounds; an' God knows it's chape enough, says he, 'considherin' all the sarcumstances, says he.
He brought a large tub up-stairs containing rough ice, which excited Andy's wonder, for he never had known till now that ice was preserved for and applied to such a use, for an ice-house did not happen to be attached to any establishment in which he had served. "Well, this is the quarest thing I ever heerd of," said Andy. "Musha! what outlandish inventions the quolity has among them!
"Martin, lad," remarked Barney, as they followed the Negro slave who had been sent by Senhor Antonio, the planter, to conduct them to the lake, while he remained behind for an hour or two to examine the bales of the old trader; "this is the quarest country, I believe, that iver was made; what with bastes, and varmints, and riptiles, and traes, and bushes, and rivers, it bates all creation."
'Musha thin, thank ye kindly, an' I'm glad to see ye've some notions o' civiltude, though ye do work the wife harder than is dacent. But after a single 'draw, Andy took the pipe in his fingers and looked curiously into its bowl. 'It's the quarest tobacco I ever tasted, he observed: 'throth if I don't think it's nothin' but chips o' bark an' dead leaves.
But the quarest thing at all was hearin' the ould man sayin' that I was a good little boy, after all the divils and villains he'd called me, as long as I could remember." Patsy stopped, still turning his hat about in his hands, his velvety eyes fixed on Lady O'Gara, where she stood leaning by the mantelpiece, her face turned away, one slender foot resting on the marble kerb.
Fac', it 'peared lack Dave done gone clean out'n his mine. En atter a w'ile he got one er de quarest notions you eber hearn tell un. It wuz 'bout dat time dat I come back ter de plantation fer ter wuk, I had be'n out ter Mars Dugal's yuther place on Beaver Crick for a mont' er so.
An' I tried ter do ye up widout givin' yer any warnin'! Dis is der quarest deal I ever struck! I was tryin' ter knock yer stiff an' den break year arm." "Break my arm?" "Dat's wot I was here fer." Frank was interested. "Then you were here on purpose to meet me?" "Sure, Mike." "But why were you going to break my arm?" "'Cause dat's wot I was paid fer, me boy."
"The gentleman looked like winning, as I said," observed the chapman blandly. "Take it, sir; the article is yours." "Haw-haw-haw!" said Fairway. "I'm damned if this isn't the quarest start that ever I knowed!" "Mine?" asked Christian, with a vacant stare from his target eyes.
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