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Adieu, monsieur! don't stay here with me for it hurts me to have told you all this." I went down the hill, and on turning round to glance back, I saw the old woman standing on a broken wall, looking out upon the mountains, the long valley and Lake Chambon in the distance. And her skirt and the queer little shawl which she wore around her thin shoulders were fluttering tike a flag in the wind.
The birds were all out of their cages; everything was upside down. "Are you a real farmer's boy?" I asked him. "O' course I am," he answered. "What do yer tike me for a hartist in disguise?" It came to me. "What is your name?" "'Enery 'Enery 'Opkins." "Where were you born?" "Camden Tahn." Here was a nice beginning to a rural life! What place could be the country while this boy Hopkins was about?
Shall I fetch the doctor?" "Ee ain't no use! besides, you'd get into a row if you went to him now. When I wos 'ome and like this my mother used to go to a chemist and git me some sweet spirits of nitre, and it always made me as right as a trivet. But there ain't no such luck 'ere." "Wot yer call it? Sweet spirits o' mitre? Never 'eerd on it afore. 'Ow do you tike it?"
The needed fillip came when the mountaineer staggered to the threshold to swear thickly at his daughter. In times past, Tom would quickly have put distance between himself and Tike Bryerson in the squirrel-eyed stage of intoxication. But now his promise to Nan was behind him, and the Gordon blood was to the fore.
One day, Tike Bryerson Nan's father and the man who had tried to kill his Uncle Silas in the revival meeting was beating his horses because they would not take the water at the lower ford. Tike had been stilling more pine-top whisky, and had been to town with some jugs hidden under the cornstalks in his wagon-bed.
'Well, I'll tike yer. 'You? 'Yus; why not? 'I like thet; wot would yer missus sy? 'She wouldn't know. 'But the neighbours would! 'No they wouldn't, no one 'd see us. He was speaking in a low voice so that people could not hear. 'You could meet me ahtside the theatre, he went on. 'Na, I couldn't go with you; you're a married man. 'Garn! wot's the matter jest ter go ter the ply?
"Thank you, sir." Then Evans lifted his eyes to the block of buildings. "A nasty business this murder which was done 'ere the other night, sir," he went on. "One 'ud hardly b'lieve it possible for such things to tike plice in London nowadays."
"Rusticating you call it, I think," says Belle-bouche, smiling languidly, and raising her brow to catch the faint May breeze which moves her curls. "Yes; rusticating is the very word derived from rus, a Latin word signifying main street, and tike, a Greek word meaning to live in bachelor freedom. It applies to me exactly, you see.
Kipe yer fingers crossed w'en yer go in there, Yank; tike me advice!" "I hope I go there too if you're going," said Tom, "'cause you make it seem not so bad, kind of, bein' a prisoner." "Hi, Fritzie!" the sailor called. "I got me reward for 'eroism!"
'E ast me when I went wiv 'is shyving-water this morning to tike 'im some coals and mike 'im some tea, an' I never thought no more about it I clean forgot." "This morning!" Beth cried. "Why that was at eight o'clock, and now it is four!" "I'll get 'em at once," Gwendolen said with contrition. But the girl herself looked worn to death.
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