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Think how grandfather left grandma and all the children!" "Well, I guess Zeb thinks he has his hands full wrastling with that stony farm." "He needn't come to see me any more, or steal glances at me 'tween meetings on Sunday," said the girl, decisively. "He cuts a sorry figure beside Zeke Watkins, who was the first to give in his name, and who began to march like a soldier even before he left us."
"I don't see what makes folks do it when they know it's such dangerous practice." "'Tween you and me, it's the devil," said Daddy bluntly. "He has allers tempted good folks as well as bad with his pison. He manages somehow fur tu make 'em believe there ain't no harm in it. I should think nobody could help a knowin of it.
Five or six days later Frewen went to Cheyne, who was now confined in the 'tween decks, and implored him to give in. "Very well, sir. To please you I will give in. But I mean to desert the first chance." "So do I. I am sick of this condition of things. There are three other men besides yourself in irons now." "Who are they, sir?" "Willis, Hunt, and Freeman."
The case might have been dealt leniently with, but the laws were more harshly administered thirty years ago than now, and on my twenty-third birthday I found myself chained as a felon with thirty-seven other convicts in the 'tween decks of the barque Gloria Scott, bound for Australia.
"'How does the outcome on't look to ye? I says. 'Goin' to be a putty close race, ain't it? "'Wa'al, he says, ''tween you an' me, I reckon it is. "'That's the way it looks to me, I says, 'an' more'n that, the other fellers are ready to spend some money at a pinch. "'They be, be they? he says. "'Yes, sir, I says, 'an' we've got to meet 'em halfway.
"I guess it's so!" Cephas responded gloomily. "It's nip an' tuck 'tween him an' Mark Wilson. That girl draws 'em as molasses does flies! She does it 'thout liftin' a finger, too, no more 'n the molasses does. She just sets still an' IS! An' all the time she's nothin' but a flighty little red-headed spitfire that don't know a good husband when she sees one.
By and by, in some inexplicable way, it came to be understood that there was a conspiracy afloat, that they were to be released from their shambles, that some amongst them had been plotting for freedom. The 'tween decks held its foul breath in wondering anxiety, afraid to breathe its suspicions. The influence of this predominant idea showed itself by a strange shifting of atoms.
"H-m, h-m," said David with a nod; "diff'rence 'tween joggin' along on the road an' drivin' a fust heat on the track; in one case the' ain't nothin' up, an' ye don't care whether you git there a little more previously or a little less; an' in the other the's the crowd, an' the judges, an' the stake, an' your record, an' mebbe the pool box into the barg'in, that's all got to be considered.
It was certainly effective, to judge by the sudden firm setting of his mouth. "Lad," he said quietly, "lend a hand below, will you? They are overhauling some of our stuff 'tween decks." He waited until the Honorable Cuthbert, looking rather dazed, had retired. We stood facing each other, my breath coming rather hurriedly.
"O no, Daddy, I spell it d-e-e-r. It's spelled so right under the picture of one in my book." "'Tween you an' me, I don't mean that ere kind of a dear, Fanny, I guess it's d-e-r-e, I mean. Howsoever, I'll spell it so and risk it.
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