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Misc Somers brought me up whar the tavern used to be. It ain't a stand no more. Uncle Meshach owns it." "Is it a nice place?" "Now it ain't as nice as it use to be, Aunt Vesty" the girl glided easily over what Vesta thought might be a hard word "sence the shews don't stop thar no mour." "The shoes? What is that?" "The wax figgers and glass-blowers, and the strongis' man in the world.
Snow sence she's been here," Captain Eri said slowly, "and I've found out that she's felt the same way 'bout me. I've kept still and said nothin' 'cause I thought you ought to have the fust chance and, besides, I didn't know how she felt. But to-day, while we was talkin', it all come out of itself, seems so, and well, we're goin' to be married."
Ever sence I hauled that crew of seasick summer boarders out of the drink a couple of years ago and the gov'ment gave me a medal, the minister and some more of his gang have painted out the name I was launched under and had me entered on the shippin' list as 'The Hero. I've licked two or three for callin' me that, but I can't lick a parson, and he was the one that told Billings.
The girl was still spellbound by the fascination of the dynamite which she had come so near to treading on. Her eyes were fixed upon the cartridge in his hand with horror, wonder. He stepped closer to her. "I mout gin it up for you!" "For me?" "You know I've loved ye sence ye were that high," said he, and measured with his hand a very little way up the side of the old stump.
A shrill voice calling his name brought "Satisfied" Longman to his feet, and he hobbled away toward the shack. "'Pears like 'Satisfied' ain't got much strength any more," said Skinner. "He ain't been worth much of anythin' sence I got back." "Him an' Ma Longman've failed a lot sence Myry an' Ezry died," agreed Jake. "An' no wonder!
He hopped through their loops like they was playin' jump-the-rope with him. Fact is, he'd learned jump-the-rope when he was a purp. He wouldn't 'a' minded that, only they didn't do it friendly. One feller whipped out his knife and throwed it at Tige and he come mighty nigh makin' dawg-meat outa him, too. Slit his ear, it come that close. Tige ain't got no likin' fer greasers sence then.
That nigger-trader shot me an' threatened Levin's life if he listened to me hailing of him. The noise I heard was the murder of the baby, whose cries betrayed the coming of the vessel. Samson, thar's been treachery ever sence we left Salisbury, an' that nigger Dave's a part of it." "He said he hated me caze I larned him to box.
"There's grown to be more to it lately than the hen end. Have you heard that sence Bat Reeves got let down by she that was Widder Snell" he nodded toward the house "he has been sort of caught on the bounce, as ye might say, by the Widder Pike? Well, bein' her close neighbor, I know it's so.
But howsoever often he might eject belief from his mind, it came back with a clinging, gentle insistence which would not be denied; and little by little, though sorely against his will, he began to have a sence of it.
"Not till she was buried, 'n' the grass growin' a foot high over her," said Nurse Byloe, "unless I'd know'd her sence she was a baby. I've know'd this one sence she was two or three year old; but this gal ain't Myrtle Hazard no longer, she's bewitched into somethin' different. I'll tell ye what, Mr. Gridley; you get old Dr.
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