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'Oh, says she, 'isn't it only three days since I burried the poor man, says she, 'an' isn't it rather soon to be talkin iv marryin' agin?
"Crystal Pallus?" "And," pursued Tilda, "I was wonderin' if you'd look after him while I step inside?" She threw back her head, and the man whistled. "You're a trustin' one, I must say!" "You'd never be mean enough to make off with 'im, an' I won't believe it of you," spoke up Tilda boldly. "Eh? I wasn' talkin of the dorg," he explained. "I was meanin' the Orph'nage.
'When I 'ears a knockin' at my front door, and when I comes to open it, there was a Harab party, with a great bundle on 'is 'ead, bigger nor 'isself, and two other parties along with him. This Harab party says, in that queer foreign way them Harab parties 'as of talkin', "A room for the night, a room."
"Give him a dirty insult, Bucky," whispered Thirkle. "Give it to him hard or the old master will argue him out of coming down." "Come down, ye swine! Come down ye low-born coward and take me if ye can. That's what I say to ye. It's me, Buckrow, foremast hand that's talkin' to the mate of the Kut Sang, who's a dog."
He didn't do it atall." "Who did, then?" "The men they rode up a gang-they did it," panted Evarts. "Did you know who they were?" "No. I couldn't tell. I saw them comin' an' I was skeered. Bernardino had gone fer water. I run an' hid in the brush. I wanted to yell, but they come too close.... Then I heerd them talkin'. Bernardino come back. They 'peared friendly-like.
"But, father," said Hanna, now speaking for the first time, "there's one thing that strikes me in the business you're talkin' about, an' it's this how do you know whether Hycy Burke has any notion, good, bad, or indifferent, of marrying Kathleen?" "Why," replied her mother, "didn't he write to her upon the subject?"
'I was thinkin', wife; I was thinkin' it's no sae bad since her name's Maggie. Ye see, if it had been Henrietta, or Dorothea, or 'Mercy! Are ye talkin' in yer sleep? 'I was gaun for to say that a Henrietta an' so forth wud be easier traced nor a Maggie, Maggies bein' as common as wulks at Dunoon, whereas 'D'ye imagine Christina oh, dinna be silly, man! 'But, Maggie I mean Lizzie
There's one gone to the back-door, and there's one talkin' to Mrs. Hope at the front. 'Then they've followed Pennyloaf, he replied, in a tone of despair. 'They've followed Pennyloaf. It was the truth. She had been watched all day, and was now tracked to Shooter's Gardens, to this house. Mrs.
Just as he began talkin' to the Battery a Coal-Box soars up an' bumps down about twenty yards away and beyond us. The F.O. looks up, but goes on talkin'; but when another shell, an' then another, drops almost on the exact same spot, he lifted the 'phone closer in to the wall and stoops well down to it. I needn't tell you I was down as close to the ground as I could get without digging.
But I let her do it, as I don't have much else to do here but just set still, and she'd better fool with my hands than spend her time talkin' with William, which she does enough as it is." "Oh, is Jeanne flirting?" "Now, I shouldn't say anything. But I can't help seein' things, even if they do think I'm an old woman with my eyes half shut." "I'll speak to Father about it."
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