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They was so real-like that I couldn't help sayin' `Nancy! an' I do assure you that she stopped sewin' an' turned her head a-one side for a moment as if she was listenin'. An' it was all so real-like too." "You was dreamin'; that was all," said the unromantic Evan. "No, mate. I wasn't dreamin'," returned Jim.
Just appointing the local manager, and it is probable that things are really under way by this time; besides, I shall set out for Cornwall to-morrow to superintend matters, leaving my able secretary in charge here in the meantime, and when he hears from me this paper may be completed and advertised." "I say, it looks awful real-like, don't it?" said Jack, with a grin.
I had a many dreams while I were lying on that little bed in grandmother's room, wicked dreams, and this might be one of them; and yet it's real-like, and there isn't the muddle in it that there is in the other dreams. 'What is it, Peter? O, pray, pray be quick! 'I'm a-coming to it, miss. Is it wicked for folks to kill theirselves? 'Is it wicked?
Growther? "Well, she spoke it all so earnest and real-like that I got off my guard, and I jist riz right up from my cheer, and I got hold of my heavy old cane there, and it seemed as if my hair stood right up on end, I was that mad at the old curmudgeon that had my boy, and I half shouts, 'No! that ain't what I'd do, I'd go for that cuss that stole my boy, and for every blow he'd given the little chap, I'd give him a hundred.
Syne I kent that playing so real-like in the Den, and telling about my fits when it wasna me that had them but Corp, and mourning for Lewis Doig's father, and writing letters for folk so grandly, and a' my other queer ploys that ended in Cathro's calling me Sentimental Tommy, was what my heart was in, and I saw in a jiffy that if thae things were work, I should soon rise to supreme eminence."
But I didna just think he was so real-like as a shepherd with his sheep, or that he would have ta'en that trouble for one," Geordie replied, with a dreamy look in his eyes; but he did not say more.
Arnot made so real-like that I see him a-lookin' at me out of the cheer there half the time he's a makin' me better acquainted with the Lord, for the Lord knows I've got a hump on my back and humps all over; but I keep a-sayin' to myself, 'Like as a father pitieth his children, and I don't feel near as much like cussin' as I used to. That little chap that Mrs.
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