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"Well," said my father, "I had made up my mind to stop, at any rate as far as I was concerned, but I wished to give you all the opportunity of going up to the settlement." "'Tchah, sir! I don't call that a settlement. But, begging your pardon, captain, speaking as an old soldier to an old soldier," continued Morgan, "what you say is ridickerlus." "Morgan!" cried my father, sternly.
Below this the valley grew less steep, and the stone slide had had less force, beginning after a time to leave fragments behind, so that the place seemed little changed, except here half-way up the slope. "Tchah!" exclaimed Bob; "nobody will notice this, and if they saw it from down below they wouldn't take the trouble to climb up."
He's got the same forehead, and the same eyes and nose. If you'd got no beard, and your hair was brushed smooth " "Tchah!" The bearded man reclaimed the paper with a laugh that carried no conviction. "The courts 'ud hand me big money damages for a libel like that," he declared. "Would they?" The smiling eyes of the Englishman were challenging.
"Polishing these glasses together so as to get one of them perfectly flat." "Tchah! that's easy enough. What d'yer want 'em so flat for?" "So as to make a reflector that will send back a ray of light quite exact a perfect mirror." "That's a looking-glass, arn't it, sir?" "Yes." "I wish you'd make one, sir, as would work o' nights, and show us when Pete Warboys comes arter my pippins.
The child was a sheet-anchor for all time. Whatever the future had in store, little Coqueline was her child, born in wedlock, the pledge of her maiden dreams. "Tchah! She's his!" The man's restraint was giving before the brutal, the criminal, that was the essence of him. "Why in hell should I feed his brat? Why should I be burdened with it? Can't you see?
Indeed, if he was here I should hit him, but I feel as if I should shake hands all the same." "What will be best to do, Samson?" "Do, sir? If you're right, get off as soon as we can." "And them wanting our help." "Tchah! They don't want our help. They want us to be out of their way. If they come and catch us here, sir, how do we know but what they may turn savage, and try to serve us out?"
They'll be putting it in the lawyers' hands, and they'll be charging me a shilling for every apple he eats. Eh! what's that? Not safe?" "No; he's got one of his nasty fits o' temper on," said the driver of the great van which had come to grief. "Tchah! Nonsense! You are a coward, Jem."
"You shall have it soon, Hampton, my good brave fellow," cried Mr Denning, and I saw the weak tears in his eyes, "and you tell my sister that she is to find my little silver flask, and give you some brandy in your coffee." "Thankye, sir, thankye, that's very good of you. Why, Mr Dale, sir, you talk of our having a bad night. Tchah! nothing, lad, nothing.
"Wants two a day like this." "And he'll pay you; and you're to get one of the fishermen to pick you up and bring you back." "Tchah! I don't want no picking up. It's on'y about six mile across from here to the Den, and I can do that easy enough if yer give me time." "Do as you like, but uncle will pay for the ride."
"For God's sake, Jeff, don't go! You won't go! They'll kill you! Oh, God! Jeff! Oh!" The final exclamation came in a sort of moan as the man swung himself into the saddle, and, without a word, turned his horse and rode away. The figure was silent, motionless upon the veranda. The eyes were dull and lifeless. It was as though paralysis held the woman in its grip. "Tchah!"
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