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"Why, how, Sir, can you, or any other gentleman, expect to see a great, fine, upstanding horse like that ere, but what has a some'ut?" But as I did, I requested to see another. For this one he asked but eighteen pounds. With my own eyes I could see that he stood above fifteen hands, was only just coming six, and was a strong, hardy animal, with a written warranty for soundness.
Spank my skin! ef thet ere wan't a cute dodge it's throwd the Indyens off o' the scent for certain; or we'd a heerd some'ut o' them verming afore this." "Faith, I think we've sucksaided in bamboozling thim, shure enough." The meat by this time showed sufficiently done; and the two men applied themselves to eating, with an earnestness that allowed no time for talking.
"I ha' got some'ut to tell yer, Missie Cecile," said Joe Barnes, "some'ut 'bout my old life, the kind o' way I used to live in Paris and Lunnon." At the words Cecile raised her little flower face with a sigh of relief; she was not going to hear of any fresh trouble; it was only an old, old woe, and Joe needed comfort. "Dear Joe," said the little girl, "yes, tell me about Paris and London."
Is your husband out of prison yet?" "He is, Miss, and he's dying; he's dying 'ard, 'ard; he's allers saying as he wants to see either you or his master. We are told that the master is ill; but oh! miss, miss, ef you would come and see him, he's dreadful anxious dreadful, dreadful anxious. I think it's jest some'ut on his mind; ef he could tell it, I believe as he'd die easy.
Then last night he put some'ut in the soup to make us hall sleep sound, and he looked for the purse and he could not find it; and this morning he called me away, to say as he knows my old master wot I served in Lunnon, and that I wor apprenticed quite proper to him, and that by the law I could not run away without being punished.
Her eyes were shut while she was speaking; when she opened them she felt almost startled by the look Cecile had given her. A look of wonder, of question, of appeal. "You want to ask me some'ut, dear?" she said gently to the child. "Oh, yes! oh, yes!" "Well, I'm very busy now, and I'll be busy all the afternoon.
She might have yielded to it, she was indeed about to yield to it, when suddenly a voice at her elbow, calling her by her name, caused her to look round. There stood Joe, but Joe with a face so altered, so ghastly, so troubled, that Cecile scarcely knew him. "Come, Cecile, come back to the hut; I have some'ut to tell yer," he said slowly and in hoarse tones.
"Yes," said Cecile, opening her blue eyes wide. "Aye, you may well say yes, and open yer eyes big; you're going to get some'ut on yer shoulders as 'ull make a woman of yer. You mayn't like it, I don't suppose as you will; but for all that you ha' got to promise, because I won't die easy, else.
All this being quite clear, I could not possibly account for the lowness of the price, otherwise than by feeling quite confident that there must be "a some'ut." While thus deliberating, "Mr. Graham," said the dealer, "will you mind what I says? You'll never be married you never can make up your mind to nothun, I see." On my getting into the saddle, to try him along a few streets, Mr.
They comed in here then, and found out what way he took; and, with some black fellows, they, after a while, found his track, and run it down till they found him as quiet as you please on the broad of his back, with his head cracked. He was a bit fresh when he left here, so they thought he might a' been going home, some'ut mad like, and got a 'spill, which cook'd him.
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