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Updated: May 10, 2025
I told her about what was doin'. I seen she had it in for somebody. It was me. 'Brand, she says, quiet-like, 'is it customary on the Moonstone for lunch or dinner to be taken to the men that are staying out from camp? "'Yes, ma'am, says I. "And the plumb hell of it was," continued Williams, "she didn't say another word. I wisht she had.
"But what about Abner? Wa'n't goin' to let him suffer f'r your act, Jed? What about Abner?" "Him too.... All of that blood.... I met Abner on the road of a Tuesday when I wa'n't quite myself with all that had happened, and I stopped his hoss and accused his brother to his face.... He listened quiet-like, and then he laughed.
"Dew yew s'pose Cap'n really dass dew it?" asked Obadiah. "Dew it? Yes he'll dew it, you better b'lieve. Did yer see the set of his jaw w'en he wuz talkin so quiet-like baout lickin em? I wuz in the army with Perez, an I know his ways. W'en he sets his jaw that air way I don' keer to git in his way, big ez I be. He'll dew it ef he doos it with his own hands.
"'You would not leave us if you could? he went on, and began to laugh quiet-like, behind his beard. 'Oho! Love, love! I that am old have been merry in my day. We walked for another mile, maybe, without speaking, and came to the edge of a valley. 'Look down yonder, said he.
I don't know what happened, it was done so quick, but before you could count three that feller was on his knees bleedin' like a pig and the hand-spike was out of the door, and the Boss walks up to the other feller and says, 'Put that hand-spike outside. He begun to swear. 'Put it out, says the Boss, quiet-like, and the feller backs up and throws his hand-spike out.
When I came to, all the men was off their horses, some round Goring him they lifted up and propped against a tree; but he was stone dead, any one could see. Sir Ferdinand was on his knees beside Starlight, talking to him, and the other saying a word now and then, quite composed and quiet-like. 'Close thing, Morringer, wasn't it? I heard him say.
Any one could see we were both in a fix. Jim spoke first. 'Are you sure you're not making a mistake, missis? says he, looking at her very quiet-like. 'Take care what you say. He'd better have held his tongue. I don't know whether she really intended to give us away. I don't think she did altogether; but with them kind of women it's a regular toss up whether they'll behave reasonable or not.
"Moreover, sitting in my shop, I wait there quiet-like while tribute comes to me from the ends of earth: everything which men and women have valued anywhere comes sooner or later to me: and jewels and fine knickknacks that were the pride of queens they bring me, and wedding rings, and the baby's cradle with his little tooth marks on the rim of it, and silver coffin-handles, or it may be an old frying-pan, they bring me, but all comes to Jurgen.
"Oh, Dave, do go more quietly this time!" "Let me try!" cried Tom, making a snatch at the hook. "No! I'll have him," said Dick. "I wouldn't miss this chance for the world!" "Ay, I'll goo up quiet-like," said Dave, pausing to give himself an opium pill before resuming his task. "Yow be quicker this time, lad a bold dash and you'll get him!"
The weather changed, and the local degenerate, Abram Sclanders' half-idiot son the poor "lippity-lop" who, according to Jennifer, had far better been "put away quiet-like at birth" committed theft. Of the first event, Damaris gradually became sensible, before her actual awakening.
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