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I've comed into a mort of money, my Uncle Ford bein' suddenly dead." "Oh, Will, I could a'most jump out the window!" "'T would be easier for me to come up-long." "No, no; not for the world, Will!" "Why for not? An' you that lovely, twinklin' in your white gownd, an' me your lawful husband, an' a man o' money! Damned if I ain't got a mind to climb up by the pear-tree!" "You mustn't, you mustn't!
The next night I was here again, the same light twinklin', but no one about. I reckoned that was mighty queer, and I jess crep' up to the house an' listened. I heard suthin' like a little cough oncet in a while, and at times suthin' like a little moan. I didn't durst to sing out for I knew SHE wouldn't like it, but whistled keerless like, to let the chillern know I was there.
Nevertheless and notwithstanding, howsumdever, as your honour says, they're little better than so many tailors, and tailors was never worth very much that ever any of us heard on at a good stand-up fight; so the long and the short of it is this, sir; you put us alongside, and we'll have her in the twinklin' of a purser's lantern. Ain't that it, boys?"
Now, that hotel, when it was consumed by fire, which to it was the same as mortal death, why, it either ascended into Heaven, in smoke, or it fell, in ashes to the other place. If it died worthy, like as not it's undergoin' repairs now for a 'mansion, jasper cupalos, an' but, of course, such as that could be run up in a twinklin'.
"You were not to repeat conversations. What next?" "In the twinklin' of an eye," resumed the witness, "the masther had sazed his partner by the throat and called him a villain. They both stood up in the boat, the masther's hand still in Mr. Rainey's collar, and for an instant Mr. Rainey shook himself loose and cried " "Not a word!" exclaimed Duff Salter. "What was done?" "Mr.
You'll excuse me, stranger, for leavin' o' ye; but I'll be back in the twinklin' o' an eye. Thar's a bit o' dinner for ye, if you can eat cold deer-meat; an' you'll find somethin' in the old bottle thar. I won't be gone more'n a hour. I reckon I won't." The emphasis expressed a certain indecision, which I observed without being able to interpret. I had my conjectures however.
"An' thin an' thin whin the kettle was to be filled, Dinah came in my Dinah her sleeves rowled up to the elbow an' her hair in a winkin' glory over her forehead, the big blue eyes beneath twinklin' like stars on a frosty night, an' the tread av her two feet lighter than wastepaper from the colonel's basket in ord'ly-room whin ut's emptied.
"This is unfortunate," muttered Jacques, as the party landed and endeavoured to wring some of the water from their dripping clothes; "an' the worst of it is that our guns are useless after sich a duckin', an' the varmint knows that, an' will be down on us in a twinklin'." "But we are four to one," exclaimed Harry. "Surely we don't need to fear much from a single enemy."
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