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The old man shook his head. "He's a kind o' set man, Andy is part Irish and part Scotch. He al'ays has anchored here and I reckon he al'ays will. I told him when I bought the land of him he was welcome to." "It was his land, then?" "Most on it I do' know as he wanted to sell reely, but I offered him more'n he could stan'. He's a little near Andy is." He chuckled. The artist laughed out.
"Yep," answered Lon somberly, "and he wants his mammy, too. But, as I telled ye before, she's dead." "Be ye reely goin' to live to hum, Lon?" queried the old woman eagerly. "Yep. And ye'll get all ye want to eat if ye'll take care of the kids. Be ye glad to have me stay to hum?" "Yep, I'm glad," replied the mother, with a pathetic droop to her shriveled lips.
But this surmise only prolonged the headshake; which promised to become chronic, to pause only when some ground of agreement could be discovered. "The child don't above half know what he's talking about, not to say know!" Thus Aunt M'riar in a semi-aside to the old lady. It was gratuitous insult to add: "He don't reely know what's a grandson, ma'am." Dave's blue eyes flashed indignation.
It do make me wild! it do reely now!" And snorting with ineffable disdain, Bainton almost threw his ladder into the tool-shed, thereby scaring a couple of doves who had found their way within, and who now flew out with a whirr of white wings that glistened like pearl in the sunlight as they spread upwards and away into the sky.
So there he cuts himself and his Johnson short, and down he goes down on his knees. I never could 'a believed it. I kep my dignity as a woman till I see that sight, but that done for me. I was a ripe apple in his arms 'fore I knew where I was. There's something about a fine man on his knees that's too much for us women. And it reely was the penitent on his two knees, not the lover on his one.
"Only two of 'em did it though, for Harry, who was a powerful, ugly-tempered chap, swore he'd do all sorts o' dreadful things to us if we didn't keep well and hearty, an' all 'cept these two did. One of 'em, Mike Rafferty, laid up with a swelling on his ribs, which I knew myself he 'ad 'ad for fifteen years, and the other chap had paralysis. I never saw a man so reely happy as the skipper was.
One little swallow ain't no help to a man as beat out as you are." "As yer like, Dennis," said Mr. Hackley, listlessly. "What I reely need is a good long rest, like in a 'orspittle." Kindly Mr. Ryan filled the small glass almost to the brim; and Hackley, though he had modestly stipulated for "on'y a drap" tossed it all off thirstily at a single practised toss. "That'll fix you up nice.
Presently, when Mavis stooped to kiss the wan face before going, Miss Nippett said: "If I was to die, d'ye know what 'ud make me die 'appy?" "Don't talk such nonsense: at your age, too." "If I could just be made a partner in 'Poulter's," continued Miss Nippett. "Not for the money, you understand, reely not for that; but for the honour, as you might say." "I quite understand."
"Thought you was a milishy man, I tell you, from the careless way you hollered one of Brockman's devils come back a-snoopin', and I didn't crave trouble, but when I saw the Lord appeared to reely want me to cope with the powers of darkness, why, I jest gritted into you for the consolation of Israel. You'd 'a' got your come-uppance, too, if you'd 'a' been a mobber.
'It was natural to all the Yankees, who were born with clenched fists, ready to go at it. "He believed me, and said 'Reely, is that so? and then he invited me to play billiards with him, and we got to be good friends, and he asked all sorts of questions about America, and said that our girls were the prettiest in the world when they were young.
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