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'No, he cried with a sudden change of intention, 'you'll stay where you are. You're safe enough here. While I'm away think o' what's below you there, an' pray yer hardest in case you've lied to me, because if you have you're done fer. I'll kill you, s'elp me God, I will! Rogers took a bee line through the scrub in the direction of the quarry, leaving Dick hanging over the open shaft.
"Now, young potato-peelin's, how much money did the doctor hand you back for that diacklum?" "Penny. Said he'd charge it up to the next Dook that come to his shop." Thereupon Aunt M'riar taxed the speaker with perfidy. "Why, you little untrue, lyin', deceitful story," she said. "To think you should say it was only a ha'penny!" "I never said no such a thing. S'elp me!"
If extra force is to accompany an assertion, it is very common for the vulgar to say in conclusion: "S'elp my taters!" or "So help me TESTES" equal to saying, "I swear by my member." That the word "taters" is a corruption of, and vulgarism for, "testes" we see very readily in the expression "strain my taters" i.e., to pass urine or make water.
There was something indefinite in her appearance, suggesting the idea that her face had been boiled, and that the features had run, losing all sharpness of outline and expression. She fixed me with her fishy eye, and dabbing her face with the corner of her apron began to blubber. "S'elp me Gawd, miss," she began, "I never thought as I should come to this!
'Well, well, I said; 'go on. 'Yes, it's all very well to say "go on," p'leaceman; but if you'd got as much water in your legs as I've got in mine, an' if you'd got no more wind in your bellows than I've got in mine, you'd find it none so easy to go on. 'What was she doing in the churchyard? 'Well, p'leaceman, I'm tellin' you the truth, s'elp me Bob!
The Major had fainted, and there was an ugly, ragged hole through the top of his arm. Slane knelt down and murmured: "S'elp me, I believe 'e's dead. Well, if that ain't my blooming luck all over!" But the Major was destined to lead his Battery afield for many a long day with unshaken nerve.
Melky laid his finger on the side of his nose. "Then you think wrong!" he said. "There'll be marriages before long for both of us but it'll not be as you suggest! There's Molteno Lodge, across the road there s'elp me, I've often seen that bit of a retreat from the top of a 'bus, but I never knew it belonged to the poor old man!"
"S'elp me! one of ourselves!" whispered Melky Rubinstein at Lauriston's elbow. "Twig him!" Lauriston was quick enough of comprehension and observation to know what Melky meant. Mr. Spencer Levendale was certainly a Jew. His dark hair and beard, his large dark eyes, the olive tint of his complexion, the lines of his nose and lips all betrayed his Semitic origin.
'Cause you know I'd shoot myself if they got me, an' you don't forget how I stuck to you, do you, Buck?" "No, Jimmie," came the assurance very softly. "I don't give a damn for the reward and I don't forget. Pull yourself together, Jimmie." "Then here it is, an' I'll give you my word, s'elp me Gawd, that every little bit of it is like I'm tellin' you.
"Where is she? Where is Joanne?" demanded Aldous. "Twenty feet behind you, Johnny, gagged an' trussed up nice as a whistle! If they hadn't stopped to do that work you wouldn't ha' seen her ag'in, Johnny s'elp me, God, you wouldn't! They was hikin' for the river. Once they had reached the Frazer, and a boat " He broke off to lead Aldous to a clump of dwarf spruce.
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