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Updated: April 30, 2025
"Why, as for bein' timid," said the porter, rubbing the end of his nose, which was copper-coloured and knotty, "I don't think I ever knowed that there feelin', but it does take a feller aback to be told all of a suddent, after he's reg'larly laid up in port, to get ready to trip anchor in twelve hours and bear away over the North Sea not that I cares a brass fardin' for that fish-pond, blow high, blow low, but it's raither suddent, d'ye see, and my rig ain't just seaworthy."
"Yes, I WILL!" exclaimed Susie, too wrought up now for restraint. "Will what?" gasped the mother. "Be Zebulon Jarvis's wife. He's asked me plump and square like a soldier; and I'll answer as grandma did, and like grandma I'll face anything for his sake." "WELL, this IS suddent!" exclaimed Mrs. Rolliffe, dropping into a chair. "Susan, do you think it is becoming and seemly for a young woman "
He cudna be jist that agreeable company to the likes o' her, puir leddy! for he was a rouch-spoken, sweirin' auld sinner as ever lived, but sic as he had he gae her, an' was said to hae been a fine gentleman in's yoong days. Some wad hae 't he cheenged a' thegither o' a suddent. An' they wad hae 't it cam o' bluid-guiltiness for they said he had liftit the reid han' agen his neebor.
So he step' offen de road fo' to go round erbout, an' he step' on a pine-stump whut lay right dar. "Git offen my chest!" say' a big voice all on a suddent, 'ca'se dat stump am been selected by de captain ob de ghostes for to be he chest, 'ca'se he ain't got no chest betwixt he shoulders an' he legs. An' li'l' black Mose he hop' offen dat stump right peart. Yes, sah; right peart. "'Scuse me!
'Whatever's ado that 'ee don't come to supper? The taters is coolin'. 'All right, granny! I be turnin' over the nets, that's all. Goody's ears her sharpest sense was hearing detected the heaviness in Ned's voice. 'What's come to 'ee, Ned, so suddent? she asked anxiously, as she heaped a plate with potatoes, and poured out a mug of butter-milk.
So he step' often de road fo' to go round erbout, an' he step' on a pine-stump whut lay right dar. "Git offen my chest!" say' a big voice all on a suddent, 'ca'se dat stump am been selected by de captain ob de ghostes for to be he chest, 'ca'se he ain't got no chest betwixt he shoulders an' he legs. An' li'l' black Mose he hop' offen dat stump right peart. Yes, sah; right peart. "'Scuse me!
Well, sir, the wind carried just enough of that paper straight down the hill into that camp ten minutes afore THEY could get there, to give them Chinamen warnin' whatever it was! Fact! Why, I've seen 'em stringin' along the road just like them fellers we passed just now, and then stop all of a suddent like hounds off the scent, jabber among themselves, and start off in a different direction"
And all of a suddent he says, the man did, "Looks to me's if you was somethin' that kind yourself, ain't ye?" "Oh, no, no, no!" whispers the shet-up posy. "I wish I was, I wish I was. I'm all right outside, humly and awk'ard, queer's I can be, but I ain't pretty inside, oh! I most know I ain't." "I ain't so sure o' that myself," says the man, "but I can tell in a jiffy."
Had you work that must be pushed in spite o' His work?" "I felt kind o' shamed then at my hurry, and I said, 'Doctor, you'll hae heard tell o' the calamity that has come to our house? And he answered, 'I hae heard; but we willna call it a calamity, David, seeing that it was o' His ordering." "'It was very suddent, sir, I said, and he lookit at me, and said, 'His messengers fly very swiftly.
"I'd planned it for months I've follered owd Melrose many times I've been close oop to 'im when he had noa noshun whativver. I might ha' killt him a doosen times over. He wor a devil an' I paid him oot! I was creepin' round t' hoose that night and ov a suddent, there was a door openin', an' a light. It seemed to be God sayin', 'Theer's a way, mon! go in, and do't! So I went in.
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