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"Stop it, I tell you. I don't feel like myself. I banked on you, Keziah. I've lived for you. And now O Keziah, take it back! Give me a little hope, just enough to keep my head above water." "I'd like to, Nat. I only wish I could. But 'twouldn't be any use. I can't do it." He snatched his hat from the table and strode to the door. Turning, he looked at her. "All right," he said chokingly.
Cartlett. "Perhaps 'twouldn't have happened then! But of course I didn't wish to take him away from your wife." "I am not his wife," came from Sue. The unexpectedness of her words struck Jude silent. "Oh, I beg your pardon, I'm sure," said Arabella. "I thought you were!"
"A short eh additional delay will hardly matter?" "Not if I kept the gang in harness. 'Twouldn't pay to let the team-work slide. Costs too much in time and trouble to break 'em in again." "Then eh will you go and dig for me elsewhere?" "On what terms?" "The same terms." "You pay all expenses and what am I to dig for?" "Gold!" "Do I get my percentage of the gross of all gold won?" "Yes.
"You wouldn't have no gre't of an outlay for boards," she said, drearily. "'Twouldn't have to be knee-high to keep me out. I'm no hand to go where I ain't wanted; an' if I ever was, I guess I'm cured on't now." Mrs. Blair dropped her knitting in her lap. For an instant, she sat there motionless, in a growing rigidity; but light was dawning in her eyes.
There's honesty in him, but 'tis like streaks in bacon; and for some reason or another he chooses that all his dealin's with me shall keep to the honest streak. If you ask me how I know this, 'twouldn't be easy to answer: I do know it, and I trust him as I'd trust myself, a'most. But Rogers isn't a man for everyone's money, and there's many as don't scruple to call him a knave.
When he had finished speaking, she stole silently to his side and slipped her hand in his. He trembled violently at her touch. "Uncle Jethro," she said in a low tone, "I love you." At the words he trembled more violently still. "No, no, Cynthy," he answered thickly, "don't say that I I don't expect it, Cynthy, I know you can't 'twouldn't be right, Cynthy. I hain't fit for it."
"'Twould a' been breaking of my word to Miss Sisily." "It was of more importance to clear her. You could have done that if you had come forward and told the police, as you've just told me, that she left the house with you before nine o'clock on that night." "'Twouldn't a' helped if I had. I found out next day that the wagonette didn't get to the cross-roads that night till nearly ten o'clock.
There's ha'f a dozen Orham folks aboard diff'rent steamers that hail from this port, and 'twouldn't be no more'n neighborly to call on 'em. There's Silas Baker's boy, Asa he's with the Savannah Line and he'd be mighty glad to see us. And there's "But Jonadab held up his hand.
"It shore otter turn out big tew pay us for all this work," and Ham's glance slowly wandered over the huge piles of rocks and dirt that their shovels and strong arms had reared, "but thar's no countin' on what it'll do. 'Twouldn't s'prise me none, if we took out a wagon load of gold; an', ag'in, 'twouldn't s'prise me none, if we didn't take out a thimble load.
"'Twouldn't alter the case much if two of these Frenchmen were in their places," put in the Captain, glaring wolfishly about him. "To be plain with you, Sir John Goldencalf, being human, I'd submit to no such monkey tricks." "Do not use the term reproachfully, Mr. Poke, I entreat of you. We call these animals monkeys, it is true; but we do not know what they call themselves.
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