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You have ever some outlandish reason for jibbing and shying like a hot-blooded, half-broken colt. Yet I think that I can overcome these strange scruples of yours by a little persuasion. 'As to the prisoners, Captain Clarke, said the seaman, 'I'll be as good as a father to them. S'help me, I will, on the word of an honest sailor!
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.
Ye may say I lie, but s'help me, I cud no more lift that little trunk than th' ship herself. "Gold? Why, how cud it 'a' been anything but solid gold? I cud lift that much lead easy. I stopped a minit and took out me knife, me mind made up to thry th' lock. I give wan good pick at ut, an' thin I hears a sort av grunt.
We don't sweat to know 'ow you brung it orf. On'y don't you go for to shoot, 'cos we 'int awmed, s'help me Gord!" "Ah, you're a knowin' one," said Rosenthall, fingering his triggers. "But you've struck a knowin'er." "Ho, yuss, we know all abaht thet! Set a thief to ketch a thief ho, yuss."
"The laundry's on fire!" he cried; "the laundry building's a-caught!" I remember his odd expression "a-caught," and wanting to laugh, but finding my face rigid and inflexible. "The devil's about again, s'help me Gawd!" he cried, in a voice thin with terror, running about in circles. And then the group on the stairs scattered as at the sound of a shot, and the Colonel and Dr.
"Old woman copped off," said Kitchell, "so much the better for us; no heirs to put in their gab; an' hold hard steady all here's the will, s'help me." The only items of importance in the will were the confirmation of the wife's death and the expressly stated bequest of "the bark known as and sailing under the name of the 'Lady Letty' to my only and beloved daughter, Moran." "Well," said Wilbur.
Dad stood and looked at Donovan for fully half-a-minute without speaking. "Why, damn it!" he exclaimed, at last, "that's MY OWN horse...You don't mean...S'help me! Old Bess's foal!" Donovan told him he was making a mistake. "Mistake be hanged!" replied Dad, walking round the animal. "Not much of a mistake about HIM!" Just here Dave appeared, as was proper. "Do you know this horse?" Dad asked him.
"Let no man rob me of it if one mother really bore us." It went through William's heart like a burning arrow. And this was why George had taken him to their mother's grave. That flashed across him, too. The poor sulky fellow's head was seen to rise inch by inch till he held it as erect as a king's. "Never!" he cried, half shouting, half weeping. "Never, s'help me God!
To think that there are men like you in the world, sir! Why, I believe in angels, I do!" "Nonsense Sam. Now you come along to my flat, and I'm going to give you a good breakfast and start you fair again." "I'm going to try and keep straight, sir, I am s'help me!" It may be said in truth that Mr. Lyne did not care very much whether Sam kept straight or not.
He was not sure whether or not he had approached this particular gentleman before, but Van Bibber conceived an idea of much subtlety, and deceived the Object by again putting his hand in his pocket. "Nothing to eat for twenty-four hours! Dear me!" drawled the clubman, sympathetically. "Haven't you any money, either?" "Not a cent," groaned the Object, "an' I'm just faint for food, sir. S'help me.
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