Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 22, 2025
"Because you have only a short time to live," said the doctor, gently. "You are dying." Mother Guttersnipe sprang up, and seized his arm with a scream of terror. "Dyin', dyin' no! no!" she wailed, clawing his sleeve. "I ain't fit to die cuss me; save me save me; I don't know where I'd go to, s'elp me save me." The doctor tried to remove her hands, but she held on with wonderful tenacity.
"An' that's all right," said Ortheris, withdrawing his head as he heard the hiccough of the Sniders in the distance. "S'elp me Gawd, tho', that man's not fit to live messin' with my beauty-sleep this way." "Go out and shoot him in the morning, then," said the subaltern incautiously. "Silence in the tents now. Get your rest, men."
"It was thisaway, mister; yes, sir; listen: I was camped in the ravine, an' all to wunst I seen the flare of the fire an' I run over there; but 'twas too late the roof had fell in an' the pore feller must 'a' been cooked alive. It was turrible, mister turrible! "An' I run an' hitched up the team an' druv to Hilarity hell bent fer a potlatch that's the way of it s'elp me God it is!
There were the husky voices of the street hawkers, the hoarse laughter, the quarrelling, the oaths, the rasping shouts of the butcher selling chunks of dark joints by auction, the screeches of the roast-potato man, and the smell of stale vegetables and fried fish. "Jow, 'ow much a pound for yer turmaters?" "Three pence; I gave mor'n that for 'em myself." "Garn!" "S'elp me, Gawd, I did, mum!"
I am choice in my phrases. I could hardly make my way at all, for a strange sort of delirium was supervening. Immediately she saw me, she exclaimed, "Ah, Goramity! him catched for sure it break my heart to see him. You know I lub Massa Rattlin, like my own piccaninny. S'elp me God, he very bad!"
"Do you know that my good old relative has divided everything between me and my cousin? I'm a rich man, now, Mr. Ayscough. S'elp me! I don't know how rich I am. It'll take a bit o' reckoning." "Good luck to you!" exclaimed the detective heartily. "Glad to hear it! Then I reckon you and your cousin'll be making a match of it keeping the money in the family, what?"
The sketch that followed of the interview between Micky and the Man was a good deal blurred by constant India-rubber, but its original could be inferred from it probably as follows, any omissions to conciliate public censorship being indicated by stars. Micky speaks first: "Who'll you rip up? You lay 'ands upon me, that's all! You do, and I'll blind your eyesight, s'elp me!
"Iss, from him; an' Mary Chirgwin found it 'pon the dead frame o' the poor gal, but 'twas partly pulp, along o' the water; an' Mary burned it wi'out readin' a word so she said, at least, though that's difficult to credit, human nature bein' as 'tis." "Then my work's the harder; but I'll find en, s'elp me God, even if us be grawed gray afore we meet."
Devlin, the Color Sergeant of E Company, glanced at the empty saddle and tumbled through the barrack-rooms, kicking up each Room Corporal as he passed. "Up, ye beggars! There's something happened to the Colonel's son," he shouted. "He couldn't fall off! S'elp me, 'e couldn't fall off," blubbered a drummer-boy, "Go an' hunt acrost the river.
"That's been what the old man fetched from his bank that day!" he exclaimed. "S'elp me if I ain't beginning to see light! Robbery before murder!" "That's about it," agreed Ayscough. "But I'll tell you all that's come out." He went on to narrate the events of the afternoon, from the arrival of Mr.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking