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Before he departed she slipped a banknote into his hand with which to buy a dress for the baby. Lumley had to pass more than one groggery on his way to the mountains, but the money was as safe in his pocket as it would have been in Amy's. "I swow! I could say my prayers to her!" he soliloquized, as he hastened through the gathering darkness with his long, swinging stride.
Well, I guess I must be off; there's the foretop-sail just let fall, and I'm bound they've passed the messenger already. I'm real sorry I can't take you all with me and shove you ashore somewhere on the quiet; but you see how 'tis; that feller Ralli but I ain't got time to talk any more, I swow. Good- bye.
As if divining her thoughts, Peterkin turned to her and said: 'Now, one word, Miss Tracy, about Hal. I hain't one to go halves in any thing, and I was meaner to him than pussly; but you'll see what I'll do. I've met with a change, I swow, I have, and he laid his lavender kid on his stomach.
Then both parrots rapped their beaks genially against the bars of the cages and beamed on the lady with their little button eyes. "Well, I swow!" ejaculated the Cap'n, rubbing his knurly forefinger under his nose, and glancing first at the parrots and then at the lady. "If that ain't as much of an astonisher as when the scuttle-butt danced a jig on the dog-vane!
Leopold told him the whole story, from the first glimpse he had of Harvey Barth's diary, down to the finding of the bag of gold. "I swow!" exclaimed Stumpy, drawing a long breath, when the narrative was finished. "Twelve hundred in gold!" "I haven't counted it; but that's what the diary says," replied Leopold. "You will be as rich as mud, Le. Gold! Then it's worth double that in paper."
"Well, I swow! you have got it up your noses pretty bad, haven't you?" said the old man as he ordered the platoon to sit down on the floor and go into camp. "It is pretty tough, the way the French treated Dreyfus, but how are you going to make your boycott work?"
"Wal', now, if this 'ere don't beat all!" he said, looking up and seeing her; "why, you're looking after Sally, I s'pose? She's up to the house." "No, Captain Kittridge, I'm come to see you." "You be?" said the Captain, "I swow! if I ain't a lucky feller. But what's the matter?" he said, suddenly observing her pale face and the tears in her eyes. "Hain't nothin' bad happened, hes there?" "Oh!
I'm bound to go, too; and I'll follow you in the next ship, else you'll be green enough to marry one of them 'ere Ingine gals." "Prudence, you're spunk!" exclaimed Mose, in terms of the warmest admiration. "Good by! And I swow I'll marry you jest as soon as you set foot in Calliforny."
'O Lord, groaned she, as she keeled over on her right side at the foot of the bed. "A glow of admiration overspread the Sergeant's face as he looked at that rifle. "'Well, I swow, old woman, is this what you call a private fixin'? said the Sergeant. 'A queer bed-fellow you've got; and just look, Captain, said he, trying the ramrod, 'loaded, capped, and half cocked.
But I'm dyin', Sam, and it's cos you've killed me." "Good God, Mary!" cried the astonished Sam, jumping up; "yure crazy here, doctor!" "Doctor can't do no good, Sam; keep still, and listen, ef yer love me like yer once said yer did; for I hevn't got much breath left," gasped the woman. "Mary," said the aggrieved Sam, "I swow to God I dunno what yer drivin' at."
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