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Updated: May 11, 2025
We will try again. Practice of this kind makes for perfection, you know, Parrot. Good, good very good! If you should be spoiled in the making, Parrot, you will not in your old age ascribe it to any paltry desire on my part to spare the rod, will you, Parrot? 'S'help me, I won't, sir!
"I think ye're Jes doin' roight, Miss Al, I mean; I must get used to that name; s'help me, I believe ye'll win on the Chestnut that gallop was good enough." "Do you think I can do it, Mike, among all those jockeys?" "Sure thing, ye can, A Al, me b'y; he won't need no ridin' in yer hands; all ye'll have to do is sit still an' keep him straight.
Some one in the crowd reached up and caught him by the ankles, and with a quick jerk pulled him off the box, and threw him on to the street. But he was up on his knees in a moment, and caught at the man's hand. "Don't let them stop me, mister," he cried, "please let me go. I didn't steal the cab, sir. S'help me, I didn't. I'm telling you the truth.
'I swear t' ye, mother, it's truth, t' whole truth, and nothin' but t' truth, s'help me God, he repeated after her. He lifted the Bible to his lips. As he replaced it on the table, he burst out into a short laugh: 'Be ye satisfied noo? She went back to the chimney corner without a word. The logs on the hearth hissed and crackled.
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'help me, 'e COULDN'T fall off," blubbered a drummer-boy. "Go an' hunt acrost the river.
'That ye'll never say a word of this to mortial ears, whether father or sister or brother, let 'em say what they will to yer, s'help yer the Blessed Virgin." "I won't then," said Florian, struggling to get at the cross to kiss it. "Stop a moment, me fine fellow," said Michael.
But Alban went in amongst them as though he had been their friend. They knew his very footstep, the older "lags" would declare. "All well, Jack?" "All well, old cove." "The Panorama come along?" "Straight art of the coffee shawp, s'help me blind." "Ship come in?" "Two tharsand next Toosday same as usual."
Some one in the crowd reached up and caught him by the ankles, and with a quick jerk pulled him off the box, and threw him on to the street. But he was up on his knees in a moment, and caught at the man's hand. "Don't let them stop me, mister," he cried, "please let me go. I didn't steal the cab, sir. S'help me, I didn't. I'm telling you the truth.
I hardly think it has come to that with you, that you'd try to break into the house and cut our throats." "We warn't after no breaking in, nor no cutting of throats, Mr. Fenwick. We warn't indeed!" "What shall you do with yourself, to-night, if I let you off?" "Just go home to father's, sir; not a foot else, s'help me."
Along about sunset I was up on the fo'castle head singin' 'Nancy Brown' when who should pop up onto the bowsprit but Pinky. She sat there a minute danglin' her legs an' smilin' an' s'help me, Mac, if it hadn't been daylight still, I'd a-swore she was a sperrit. I jumped two feet in the air an' came down with my mouth open.
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