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'Take the money, then, says she, 'and buy it fa'r and squar'." "Out with it," said Goree, his racked nerves growing impatient. Garvey threw his slouch hat upon the table, and leaned forward, fixing his unblinking eyes upon Goree's. "There's a old feud," he said distinctly and slowly, "'tween you 'uns and the Coltranes." Goree frowned ominously.
I know not where thy road may lie, Or which way mine may be; If mine will lead through parching sands, And thine beside the sea; Yet "God keeps watch 'tween thee and me," So, never fear. He holds thy hand, he claspeth mine, And keeps us near.
That mild spell we had 'fore Christmas it did fly away one morning, but at sundown there it was back again; an' when it came on to snow that night I felt same's I used to 'tween voyages, when I could hear how the ocean'd get lashed to a fury, an' Cap'n Walker'd be fast asleep safe beside me.
"You've made trouble atween us and the Cherokees, and you've drove away the best defense against Injuns we could 'a' had." "I don't have to have no loose-wit to stand 'tween me and Injuns," sneered Crabtree. "You're better at killing unarmed Indians than in putting up a real fight," I accused. "You're not fond of traveling very far from a settlement when you draw blood.
He was, as he said, over forty-two, burly and grey-haired, but he blushed like a girl under her approving gaze. Nevertheless, he said only, "That wench is a trump!" and swore a little. Meanwhile Maurice Frere had passed the sentry and leapt down into the 'tween decks. At his nod, the prison door was thrown open.
Undisturbed and not at all daunted by a reply for which she had not even listened, aunt Ann raised her voice in cheerful response: "Well, you be along 'tween three an' four, an' you'll find me ready." "Mercy, aunt Ann!" said Amelia, beginning to unwind the visitor's wraps, "what makes you keep houndin' Amos that way?
I know you Britishers hate to be thought inquisitive 'bad form, ain't it! but I didn't figure it thataway, not any. I'd forgot for a minute the difference 'tween " He broke off and looked down at his sleeve, nodding to the stripes and then to the lieutenant's star. "An' if you don't mind I'll keep on forgetting it meantime. 'Twon't hurt discipline, seeing nobody's here anyway.
We were allowed to go down to the well deck to see our friends and sit on the hatch with them during the daytime. They had their meals in the 'tween decks at different times from us, but the food provided was usually just the same. The evenings were the deadliest times of all on the Wolf.
A shout from the fugitives brought several faces to the window, and from the door hobbled an old man. He cautiously peered into the gloom, and finally at the sound of a familliar voice sidled up to Edward and his charge. "'Tween you and me, what's the matter?" said he. "It's me, help me down, daddy, do, I'm tired," said Little Wolf, in feeble tones.
Three times I've stopped a mutiny for you, an' you'd be dead an' buried if I hadn't. Then came this last when things went wrong. You say the girl peached, but 'tween you an' me I say you tried to turn State's evidence don't deny anything," he held up his hand when the other would have interrupted. "That's passed now.
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