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I am so old and broke down in sperrits, that you will s'cuse me from undertaking of any jobs, where I should be obleeged to pull one foot out'en the grave before I could start. I ain't ekal to hard work now, and like the rest of wore-out stock, I am only worth my grabs in old fields."
"No, indeed," she returned, while withering Hawker again. "Gee! Gee! Whoa! Haw! Git-ap! Haw! Whoa! Back!" After these two attacks Hawker became silent. "Gee! Gee! Gee there, blast s'cuse me. Gee! Whoa! Git-ap!" All the boarders of the inn were upon its porches waiting for the dinner gong.
S'cuse me for interrupting" and Ham turned his eyes, still glinting with his honest wrath, to the alcalde. "What!" and the alcalde's eyes brightened and his whole face lightened, as if a great load had been suddenly lifted off his soul. "You saw this man run out of Hangtown three days ago! The very time that he swore he was on his way from San Francisco to the diggings!
She turned instantly away in the darkness, her hands over her cheeks; and in a panic Ramsey wondered if he hadn't made a dreadful mistake. "S'cuse me!" he said, stumbling toward the gate. "Well, I guess I got to be gettin' along back home." He woke in the morning to a great self-loathing: he had kissed a girl.
"We must go and see what it looks like, and try to learn where those sounds came from." "S'cuse me, massa, dis chile don't set he foot on dat lan', kase ef he do, he neber leabe it agin." "Then if you are afraid," said I, tauntingly, "I will go alone; you wait until I return." "Massa," implored the frightened negro, "don't go; you neber kum back; you is lost."
He wouldn't come in; he's standing in the hall yet, sah. Said s'cuse him, but 'twas mos' impawtant." Major Miller instantly set down his punch-glass, and strode out through the parlor into the front hall. It was a season of incessant rumors and alarms, and the party could not forbear listening. "Halloo, McLean! What's up?" they heard him say. "A courier just in from the cavalry, sir.
'I'm glad to see you've turned a bit more feeling. "'Yes, sir, ses the mate. 'I didn't think so at fust, but I can see now them chaps is all very ill. You'll s'cuse me saying it, but I don't quite approve of your treatment. "I thought the skipper would ha' bust. "'My treatment? ses he. 'My treatment? What do you know about it? "'You're treating 'em wrong, sir, ses the mate.
But as he opened the door he came face to face with Joe, who touched an eyebrow and jerked a thumb over his shoulder. "S'cuse me, sir," said he, "but it's that Old Un, covered wi' dust 'e is, sir, an' wants a word wi' you. And, sir, 'e 's that mysterious as never was. Shall I let him come in, sir?"
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