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I have told you that, upon my side, there is no objection to the marriage, but I have good reason to believe there will be much on the young lady's." "This is all beside the mark," says he. "I will engage for her acceptance." "I think you forget, Mr. Drummond," said I, "that, even in dealing with myself you have been betrayed into two-three unpalatable expressions.
She asked me who she was? "It was a he, then," said I. "We were the two best lads at my father's school, and we thought we loved each other dearly. Well, the time came when he went to Glasgow to a merchant's house, that was his second cousin once removed; and wrote me two-three times by the carrier; and then he found new friends, and I might write till I was tired, he took no notice.
"It's a bit o' real lace," ses the gal, twisting her 'ead round to look at the collar; "it cost me one and two-three only last night." "One an' wot?" ses Charlie, who, not being a married man, didn't understand 'er. "One shilling," ses the gal, "two pennies, and three farthings. D'ye understand that?" "Yes," ses Charlie. "He's cleverer than he looks," ses the gal, turning to Ted.
"Well, well! two-three hundred ducats; will that do?" "Two hundred; the Prince de Deux-Ponts did not spend more." He began to write, and gave me his word that everything should be in readiness.
Mounting men togged out, new leggin's an' moccasins their womern had made, warriors painted up a inch o' their lives, an' women with brass wire an' calico all they wanted maybe two-three thousand people in the Rendyvous. "But I never seed the grass so short, an' I never seed so much fightin' afore in all my life as I have this trip.
"Can't anybody go in if it's an exhibit by payin' suthin'?" "I mean, I don't know that they're hung." "Well, I wouldn't bother about that. I'd like to see 'em jest as well if they ain't hung. I'm putty tall, but I can scooch down as well as anybody. It'll seem kind o' good to see the ol' place. I was thinkin' this mornin' I wish't there was two-three rocks round somewheres.
"He can do it; hundreds o' men thick-headed men in the ord'nary way can do it; take a vessel out o' Falmouth here, as you might say, and hold her 'crost the Atlantic, as you might put it; whip her along for thirty days, we'll say; an' then, 'To-morrow, if the wind holds, an' about six in the mornin', they'll say, 'there'll be an island with a two-three palm-trees on a hill an' a spit o' sand bearing nor'-by-west.
You're in town two-three days a week anyhow. If you like you can build a house here an' we'll move into it." "I'll get busy pronto. I expect you want a quiet wedding, don't you?" "Sure. We can go over to Blister's office this afternoon. You see him an' make arrangements. Tell him I don't want the boys to know anything about it till afterward." An hour later they stood before Justice Haines.
I have never thought much of any females since that day. And so in the end my father, James More, came to be cast in prison, and you know the rest of it an well as me." "And through all you had no friends?" said I. "No," said she; "I have been pretty chief with two-three lasses on the braes, but not to call it friends."
"Did he say he came in on Two-three?" he asked. "He did." "Well, that's odd devilish odd! I was on that train, and I rambled it from one end to the other which is a bad habit I have when I'm trying to kill travel-time. Gridley isn't a man to be easily overlooked. Reckon he was riding on the brake-beams? He was dirty enough to make the guess good.
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