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Near to Joe Binney stood one of the sailors on outlook. He was a dark-complexioned, savage-looking man, who had done more than any one else to foment the bad feeling that had existed between the captain and his men. "Ye look somethin' skeared, Hugh Morris," said Joe, observing that the look-out was gazing over the bow with an expression of alarm.
But, she continued, turning round to look at the vast circuit of peaks stretching away as far as the eye could reach, 'we shall have to ketch her to-day somehow. She'll never go back to the cottage where you went and skeared her; and if she don't have a fall, she'll run about these here hills till she drops. We shall have to ketch her to-day somehow.
She gave Master Giles her own description. Says she, 'I'm suspector-general of this here districk. So then Giles he was skeared a bit he have got an acre of land of his own, you know and he up and asked her did she come under the taxes, or was she a fresh imposition; 'for we are burdened enough a'ready, no offense to you, miss, says Josh Giles.
You must 'a done it so no lies; for that wur the on'y thing as ever skeared 'er, arstin' 'er about 'er father, pore dear....Why, man alive! what are you a-gurnin' at? an' what are you a-smackin' your forred wi' your 'and like that for, an' a-gurnin' in my face like a Chessy cat? Blow'd if I don't b'lieve you're drunk. An' who the dickens are you a-callin' a fool, Mr. Imperance?
Cyril, she wur once a friend o' mine. I want to know what skeared her? If it was her as set for the pictur, she'd never 'a' had the fit if she hadn't, 'a' bin skeared. I s'pose Mr. Wilderspin didn't go an' say the word "feyther" to her? I s'pose he didn't go an' ax her who her feyther was? I heard Wilderspin's voice say. 'No, indeed. I would never have asked who her father was. Ah, Mr.
I was merely trying to frighten the creatur', and I think you will own that he was pretty well skeared, at any rate." "Well, well, have it as you say. But this is a lordly piece, and would make a steady hand and quick eye the King of the Woods!"
'I've bin a-followin' on you all the way, brother, said Sinfi, as we moved out of the cemetery, 'for your looks skeared me a bit. Let's go away from this place. 'But whither, Sinfi? I have no friend but you; I have no home. 'No home, brother? It's the Romanies, brother, as 'ain't got no home 'cept the sky an' the wind.
He gnashed what teeth he'd got left at her, and told her that he'd break her and make her howl for mercy afore she was many hours older. And then he went down house and dared his wife, who was getting a bit skeared over it, to take the girl a crust. "'Tis my will against hers," he said, "and I've got the whip hand.
'I thought as much. said the voice of the Gypsy girl I had met at the wayside inn, and she seized me by the throat with a fearful grip. 'You've been to the cottage and skeared her away, and now she's seed you there she'll never come back; she'll wander about the hills till she drops down dead, or falls over the brinks. 'O God! I cried, as I struggled away from her. 'Winifred! Winifred!
I'm glad to see you safe, for I was badly skeared lest I should find nothing but a heap of ashes here." The next two men now turned out, and Mr. Welch led his visitor into the house and struck a light. "Halloo, Pearson! you must have been in a skirmish," he said, seeing that the hunter's head was bound up with a bloodstained bandage. "It was all that," Pearson said, "and wuss.
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