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"But what do you think?" "A Bible, perhaps." "A Bible!" said Morva impatiently, "no no, not a Bible; Sara knows you have plenty of them at Garthowen, and she has too much sense to bring you another no! 'tisn't that! but oh, what will it be, I wonder?" And day after day this was the question that ran through her thoughts, "What will it be, I wonder?"
The band noiselessly drew up and faced him. "Your money or your life!" said the constable sternly to the still figure. "No, no," whispered John Pitcher. "'Tisn't our side ought to say that. That's the doctrine of vagabonds like him, and we be on the side of the law."
"I can guess easily enough what you're thinking, Frank," asserted Jerry, with offended dignity marked in his manner; "but 'tisn't so, I tell you. I never set eyes on that old cup before he snatched it up out of that hole." "No need of your saying that, Jerry," declared Frank, "because I believe you are as innocent as I can be myself.
"An' how many times might you 'ave been at Aukland?" "One two," he began. "Why, I can't make it more than three times in ten years. But I can remember every time that I ever saw Mrs. "So can I an' I've only been to Auckland twice how she stood an' what she was sayin' an' what she looked like. That's the secret. 'Tisn't beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just It.
Suddenly her keen eyes caught something and she pointed with a finger. "Vat de mattaire vid you h'arm?" she asked, excitedly. "'Ow you get 'urted?" "Oh! That! That's nothing," he answered, drawing back. "'Tisn't worth bothering about. Good-night!" "You no be one beeg fool, Monsieur Hugo!" she ordered him, masterfully. "Now you sit down an' let me look heem arm right avay quick.
"'Tisn't such a pretty game, and they don't play for their lives. I tell you it's love of gambling brings men here, and it's the splendid stiff game they find going on that keeps them. There's nothing like it on earth." His belated enthusiasm deceived nobody. "It don't seem to have excited you much," said Mac. "Oh, I've had my turn at it.
'Tisn't likely I wouldn't know her when I seen her agin. What's twinty years when you're my age? She didn't say I'd made a mistake when I called her Bridyeen. She's gone now, an' I'll miss her. 'Tis a lonesome road without a friend on it, for I'm too ould to take to an Englishwoman, though yon's a quiet crathur at the lodge." Lady O'Gara was recovering her power of speech.
"Cap'n Hunken had a small sum in the Saltypool a hundred pounds only." "I wonder he had a penny. 'Tisn't like 'Bias to put anything into an uninsured ship." "Mr Rogers did it without consultin' him. Cap'n Hunken didn' know, and I didn' know, for the money didn' pass by cheque.
But it is a very odd thing; I was talking to your father very intimate about family matters only last Friday in the world, and who should come in but Keeper Day, and we all then fell a-talking o' family matters; but neither one o' them said a mortal word about it; knowen me too so many years, and I at your father's own wedding. 'Tisn't what I should have expected from an old neighbour!"
A lion!" exclaimed Dinah, raising her hands in surprise. "Yep! A lion!" "Oh, mah honey lamb! Don't yo' do no sich a thing!" cried Dinah. "A lion done eat yo' laigs off!" "'Tisn't a real lion. I mean a wooden lion on a merry-go-round like we saw to-day," Flossie explained. "Oh, a wooden lion!" and Dinah laughed.
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