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I was so skeered when I seen the stole truck, I never knowed nothin'." "An' then ye spoke a lie! An' arterward, ye let the folks think ez 'twar me ez hed tored that coat close by the Conscripts' Hollow!" "I was skeered haffen ter death, Barney!" Nick was very contemptible in his falsehood and cowardice, even in his repentance and shame and sorrow.
An' I fund the coat a-hangin' thar on the peg, whar I hed lef' it, bein' ez I furgot it when I went off with Rufe ter look at his chickens, an' the pocket war empty an' the paper gone! Nate hev kem ter sarch, too!" Once more he held out his hand. "Gimme the grant. Nate 'lows 'twar you-uns ez tuk it, bein' ez I lef' it hyar." Birt flushed angrily. "I'll say a word ter Nate Griggs!" he declared.
Alf's heart sank sank like lead when Jim, suddenly remembering the promised "good word" to the witches, piped out, "I war tole not ter tell who teched it, 'kase my dad didn't want nobody ter know 'twar hid thar." John Coggin's face was rigid and gray. "The Lord hev forsook me!" he cried. "An' all my chillen hev turned liars tergether." Then he made a great effort to control himself.
I maun hae been walkin' i' my sleep!" said Jean to herself aloud. "Or maybe that guid laddie Donal Grant's been wullin' to gie me a helpin' han' for's mither's sake, honest wuman! The laddie's guid eneuch for onything! ay, gien 'twar to mak' a minister o'!" Eagerly, greedily, Gibbie now watched her every motion, and, bent upon learning, nothing escaped him: he would do much better next morning!
The others, divining that this was urged in justification and precedent for devious modern ways that were not meek, did not pursue this branch of the subject. "S'prised me some," remarked the advanced thinker, "ter hear ez them tables o' stone war up on the bald o' the mounting thar. I hed drawed the idee ez 'twar in some other kentry somewhar I dunno " He stopped blankly.
"'Twarn't the bran dance; 'twar suthin' ez fleet-in' an' ez useless," said his mother, standing in the door and gazing at the unconscious girl, who was leaning upon the hoe, half in the shadow of the blooming laurel that crowded about the enclosure and bent over the rail fence, and half in the burnished sunshine; "she's plumb beautiful thar's the snare ez tangled Abs'lom's steps.
"Tell Captain McTavish that I'll gang," said Alec, who had hesitated no longer than the time Mr Cupples took to say the word of kind flattery to their landlady. "He'll want testimonials, ye ken." "Wadna ye gie me ane, Mrs Leslie?" "'Deed wad I, gin 'twar o' ony accoont. Ye see, Mr Alec, the day's no yesterday; and this session's no the last."
She's growed up like the other children hyar, and 'twar them what fust called her Smiles; but 'twarnt long erfore maw an' me sorter got inter the habit of doin' hit too, fer hit suits her right well." The speaker became silent, his memory dwelling in scenes of the dimming past, while Donald's thoughts were busy with the story which he had just heard.
I don know why I shed a thort so; but maybe 'twar because thar's been some others come here to settle o' late, an' found squatters on thar groun jest the same as Holt's on yourn. That's why ye heerd me say, a while ago, that I shedn't like to buy over his head." "And why not?" I awaited the answer to this question, not without a certain degree of nervous anxiety.
"Tobe," he said, in a solemn voice all the echoes were bated to awed whispers "I hev been gin ter view a vision this night, bein' 'twar Chris-mus Eve. An' now I want ter shake hands on it fur peace." Then he told the whole story, regardless of the ranger's demonstrations, albeit they were sometimes violent enough.
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