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We got Kelly out of the room into the street, and began inquiring of him the whereabouts of this said Bower or Power. "He didn't know," the feather-headed Irishman that he was! "Faix, by-the-by, he'd forgotten an' he went to look for him at the place he tould him, and they didn't know sich a one there " "Oh, oh! Mr. Power has an alibi, then? Perhaps an alias too?"
Only think," she proceeded, with a fresh burst of sorrow, "oh, only think, father, of sich a woman bein' forced to this!" "May the Lord pity her an' them, this woeful day!" exclaimed Sullivan.
I 's got jist de very pattern my old man liked so much, a bakin'. Jist sich as I gin him the mornin' he was took off. Lord bless us! how I felt, dat ar morning!" Mrs. Shelby sighed, and felt a heavy weight on her heart, at this allusion. She had felt uneasy, ever since she received her son's letter, lest something should prove to be hidden behind the veil of silence which he had drawn.
"An' Magomery wants a person to make a lady's hack out o' sich an outlawr as him!" he continued, in hopeless protest, whilst the 'outlawr' exerted his iron muscles to the utmost, and the saddle creaked like a basket. "Nummin' good horse, too; on'y spoiled with Jist look at that!"
He needed human companionship more'n he could git from his little child. After a while he jined himself to a band of Injuns, became their leader, an' ruled 'em with a strong hand. Fer a time this gave him some comfort, an' he believed that sich a life was all that he could desire. He had his books, an' when he wished he could talk with the natives, whose lingo he soon larned."
I hope we won't meet in the dark, that's all. 'Drivin' across ladders for ever, with the rungs very far apart, explained a Canadian to Andy, in the background, as the latter rubbed his finger-tips over the ribs in the material of his pantaloons, and looked puzzled. 'An' what description of vahicle stands sich thratement? asked Mr. Callaghan, 'an' what description of baste?
"I knows dar's sich a doctor somewhars 'bout, but just whars I cante say, an' he's a poor doctor fur the likes o' you, don't have noffen to do with him, nohow." "A poor doctor!" exclaimed the stranger. "Why, I understood he was the greatest doctor in the world; and I've come all the way from the Wabash country to see him." "Warbash! whar's dat?
Your sorrow would have worn away gradually, and nothing but an agreeable melancholy an affectionate remembrance of your excellent wife would have remained. Look at other men." "But where's the man, sir, had sich a wife to grieve for as she was? Don't be hard on me, sir. I'm not a dhrunkard. It's thrue I dhrink a great dale; but thin I can bear a great dale, so that I'm never incapable."
I niver heard no good of that there place not as I holds by sich talk myself," he added apologetically. "Well," said the Colonel, "you can do as you like, but I'm going back at once, and going down the hole, too; the gas must be out of it by now. There are reasons," he added, "why, if this money is to be found at all, it should be found this morning. To-day is Christmas Day, you know."
"Spirits! bless you, sir, I never thought of no sich a thing! 'Tis nothing in life but ginger-beer very cooling drink, sir, of my wife's making she had the receipt from her grandmother up in Leicestershire. Won't you taste a bottle, sir?" and he hastily made a cork bounce, and poured it out. That, of course, was genuine, but Norman was "up to him," in schoolboy phrase. "Give me yours, Larkins."
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