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"One night he was sittin' in his little house by the fire, and smokin' his pipe an' readin' the paper, an' 'twas rainin' an' blowin' an' hailin' an' stormin', an' he was so glad there wasn't anybody wantin' to go 'cross the river, when he heard somebody call out 'Ferus! An' he looked out the window, but he couldn't see nobody, so he sat down again.
Well, 't was one o' that kind o' posy I was goin' to tell you about. 'Twas one o' the shet-uppest and the buddiest of all on 'em, all blacky-blue and straight up and down, and shet up fast and tight. Nobody'd ever dream't was pretty inside. And the funniest thing, it didn't know 'twas so itself!
A man's voice, thick and husky, made some indistinct reply. 'Lizabeth fixed the cap more securely on her pistol, and called again "Who's there?" "What the devil " began the voice. 'Lizabeth shot back the bolt and lifted the latch. "If you'd said at once 'twas William come back, you'd ha' been let in sooner," she said quietly.
There ain't a thing in the Bible but what is true; all you want is to go prayerfully to work and cipher out how 'twas done." At eight o'clock on the third morning out from New York, land was sighted. Away across the sunny waves one saw a faint dark stripe stretched along under the horizon-or pretended to see it, for the credit of his eyesight.
"'Twas Fate again," he said, "Fate! who has always seemed to stalk in between! If I had gone to her on that 'to-morrow, I should have poured forth my soul and hers would have answered me. But there shall be another to-morrow, and I swear it shall come soon."
"But 'tis past my patience, the whole thing, and I can scarce trust myself to think of it. By the way, Ned," he said, suddenly turning to Calvert, "'twas that villain Bertrand, that protégé of yours, who was carrying the head of that poor devil, Foulon, on his pike this afternoon. I recognized the fellow instantly, and I think he knew me, too, though he was near crazed with blood and excitement.
She had a dislike of meeting strangers and a horror of being followed; the sound of footsteps on the path behind us would drive her near crazy." I think 'twas this frequent pretence of theirs to be searching for wild flowers which brought the suspicion of witchcraft upon them among the population of Givens. The story of the woman's youth was remembered against her, if obscurely.
"Oh, in course, if ye put it that way," he returned, huffily, "I haven't got a word to say. I al'ays thought 'twas a wife's dooty to help her husband, but since it seems to be a favour, I'm sure I did ought to be very grateful. Thank ye kindly, ma'am! P'r'aps ye'll be so good as to shut up that beautiful pet o' yourn now, and give me a bit o' breakfast, if it bain't troublin' ye too much."
"Who is that, sir?" says Lucy, smiling. "Little Miss Martha." "She is your friend?" "Are you not?" says Sir Asinus, bowing with great devotion to Martha; "you caught me this morning, you know." "Oh no, sir! you caught me!" "Indeed!" cried Sir Asinus; "I thought 'twas the lady's part!"
"I guess you think I'm a coward, Sabrina," she said. "Well, I'll do the best I can. Maybe if 'twas fall I could get a school, and set my mind on that. I can help mother, but she'd rather manage things herself." Sabrina bent forward, with an eager gesture. "Dear, there's lots o' things," she said. "The earth's real pretty. You concern yourself with that.
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