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Fortunately, even Ruby himself in the midst of his ravings, had not dropped a word about the picrate that had been deposited in the hold; for although the mate had a power over the sailors that Captain Huntly had never possessed, I feel cer- tain that if the true state of the case had been known, noth- ing on earth would have prevented some of them, in their consternation, from effecting an escape.
"Mahaly wuz er likely gal," went on Aunt Verbeny, "an' when she las' come home, she wuz a-warin' spike-heeled shoes en er veil uv skeeter nettin'. 'Tain' so long sence Rhody's Viney went to Philadelphy, too, but she ain' had no luck sence she wuz born er twin. Hit went clean agin 'er."
Which when they saw that attended him, they bound him with great cable-ropes, like those that are made at Tain for the carriage of salt to Lyons, or such as those are whereby the great French ship rides at anchor in the road of Newhaven in Normandy.
'Don't be scairt, said Uncle Eb. ''Tain' no bear. It's nuthin' but a poet. I knew him for a man who wandered much and had a rhyme for everyone a kindly man with a reputation for laziness and without any home. 'Bilin', eh? said the poet 'Bilin', said Uncle Eb. 'I'm bilin' over 'n the next bush, said the poet, sitting down. 'How's everything in Jingleville? Uncle Eb enquired.
So that when I was trying to read or to reflect, it was by no means exhilarating to my mind to hear from the next room that: "The la dy ce sel i a now si zed the weep on and all though the boor ly vil ly an re tain ed his vy gor ous hold she drew the blade through his fin gers and hoorl ed it far be hind her dryp ping with jore."
At Tain, the Rhone forces for itself a narrow passage into the vale of Valence, from among the rugged skirts of Mont Pilate, leaving on the one side Tain, and on the other Tournon; both backed by strong heights, which seem to guard the entrance of the defile. The situation of Tournon is striking, and very much corresponds with the ideas which one forms of a strong baronial hold upon the Rhine.
"Get along dar!" sang out Hosea again. "'Tain' no use a-mincin', gemmun. Dar ain' no fiddlin' roun'. Git along dar!" Miss Lydia had fallen asleep, with her head on her breast, but the sound aroused her, and she opened her eyes and sat up very straight. "Why, I declare I'd almost dropped off," she said. "Are we nearly there, Peyton?"
'How do I know what's the matter with the bird? answered the farmer. 'What I tell you is that it ain't worth a sovereign 'tain' t worth a half a sovereign! 'Why not? persisted the dealer; 'it talks all right, don't it? 'Talks! retorted the indignant farmer, 'the damn thing talks all day, but it never says anything funny!" "A friend of mine," said the Philosopher, "once had a parrot "
Then to her daughter, who suddenly felt herself a little compelled creature again, so was she carried into the past by the old woman's soft, Creole slurring: "'Tain', lil' missy, 'tain' like Madame Garnier she aire seeck actual, but jus' she taire, easy like." Madame Garnier! That meant Molly! The illusions were all gone. The girl backed from the couch.
It is preceded by two other ceremonies, the first of which is called Tain manoc, Tagal words, signifying or meaning "the cock looking after his hen."
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