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"He's done fer you true this time, but the end of things is a tarnal long ways off yet, an' don't you go losin' yer spunk!" "But what have I ever done to him that he should start this against me?" cried Schofield. Pete could not answer. "What do they do when a man is accused of murder?" asked Code. "Why, arrest him, I guess." Pete scratched his chin reminiscently. "There was that Bulwer case."
And you landlubbers are a-goin' to leeward, some on ye." "You don't say! what be you a hintin' at?" "Well, there's a reel blow down to Bostin, Zekle; there's no more gettin' out o' harbour with our old sloop; she's ben an' gone, an' got some 'tarnal lawyer's job spliced to her bows, an' she's laid up to dry; but that's a pesky small part o' judgment.
And besides, didn't that etarnal old Bruce fob me off with a beast good for nothing, and talk big to me besides? and warn't that all fa'r provocation? An didn't you yourself sw'ar ag'in shaking paws with me, and treat me as if I war no gentleman? 'Tarnal death to me, cut me loose, or I'll haunt you, when I'm a ghost, I will, 'tarnal death to me!"
"Well, no doubt you are right, chief, but it worries one to think that while we are sitting here those 'tarnal red-skins may be attacking our friends. My only hope is that Harry, who has done a lot of Indian fighting, will hide his trail as much as possible as he goes on, and that they will have a lot of trouble in finding it." The chief nodded. "My white brother, Harry, knows Indian ways.
"Amy was left to herself, and broke loose upon this occasion from the bonds of Quaker propriety; but no one observed the transgression except old Anne. "'That's right, Amy Collins; I like to hear you say so. How them Hessians can run the 'tarnal niggers; they steal sausages better than they stand bullets.
"In the first place they may come in useful to us yet, and even if we never get astride of them again they may come in mighty handy for food. I don't say as we mayn't get a bear if there are openings in the canon, or terraces where they can come down, but if there ain't it is just horse-meat we have got to depend on. Look here, boys, it is 'tarnal dark here; I can't see my own hand.
"I don't ax your pity, 'tarnal death to me, I ax your help." roared Ralph; "Cut me loose is the word, and then sw'ar at me atter! I stole your hoss thar: well, whar's the harm? Didn't he fling me, and kick me, and bite me into the bargain, the cursed savage? and ar'n't you got him ag'in as good as ever?
'I guess I ain't nothin' else' answered the storekeeper, with satisfaction. 'But I kin tell you, squire, that my lad Nim is 'tarnal 'cute too, an' he'll be worth lookin' arter as a husband, he will. Still with an unsuspicious effort at cordiality, Mr. Wynn answered, 'I suppose so. 'He might get gals in plenty, but he has a genteel taste, has Nim: the gal to please Nim must be thorough genteel.
"Thar', 'tarnal death to me!" roared Ralph, pointing downwards with triumph, "arn't that old Salt now, looking as sweet and liquorish as a whole trough-full of sugar-tree? We'll just take a dip at him, anngelliferous madam, jist to wash the mud off our shoes; and then, 'tarnal death to me, farewell to old Salt, and the abbregynes together cock-a-doodle-doo!"
Dad Wright used to say he was a 'snake in the grass, and Dad doesn't often misjudge a man." "Who holds the key to that tarnal hole, anyway, Tad?" "Williams was the last man in the tunnel, Ben, and I suppose he holds the keys. I've never been inside since I carried out poor Bill's broken body."
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