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But I confess that my chief difficulty is the ordnance, for it interferes a good deal wi' the steerin'. Hows'ever `never ventur' never win, you know. I never expected to take up a noo purfession without some trouble." As he spoke, the seaman's horse a large brown chestnut put its foot in a hole, and plunged forward with great violence, barely escaping a fall. "Hold on!" shouted Archie in alarm.
I just ventur' to ask that question, sir." "It may be the hand of Providence, my good fellow; for I very frankly own I can see no direct physical cause. Nevertheless, I fancy it would be found that the tides or currents have something to do with it, if the truth could be come at." "Well, sir, and who causes the tides and currents to run, this-a-way and that-a-way?"
If he has only done his duty by me, this will be the greatest ventur' of my whole life; it will make the evening of my days comfortable. I hope I've always been grateful for blessings, and I'm sure I'm grateful, from the bottom of my heart, for this. Give me prosperity, and I'm not apt to forget it.
"Try the wood well, then, with your knife, and see if you think it very rotten." "Him rotten, massa, sure nuff," replied the negro in a few moments, "but not so berry rotten as mought be, Mought ventur' out leetle way 'pon de limb by myself, dat's true." "By yourself! What do you mean?" "Why, I mean de bug. 'Tis berry hebby bug.
At all events, I am acquainted with some women who are not easily frightened." "Really, I think it is not fair to interrupt the story in this way," said Minnie, with a laugh. "Right, lass, right," said the captain. "Come, leftenant, spin away at yer yarn, and don't ventur' too much commentary thereon, 'cause it's apt to lead to error, an' ye know, as the poet says
For a time he was silent and laid his heavy hand gently on her shoulder. "I did not ventur' to speak to her," he continued, "an' indeed it would have been of no use, for she was past hearin'. A few minutes later and her gentle spirit went up to God.
"There's some things, laird," resumed Jeames, "that hae to be approcht oontil, wi' circumspection an' a proaper regaird to the impression they may mak. Noo, disclaimin' ony desire to luik like an ill-bred scoon'rel, whilk I wad raither luik to onybody nor to yersel', laird, I ventur to jaloose 'at maybe the maitter o' a feow poun's micht be o' some consequence to ye,"
It only came but once: and Bede hissed through his teeth, a cryin' too, a'most: 'Ain't thar' no other way to werry us, but they must come in here to drown afore our very eyes! A fool's ventur'! what could ye expect but a fool's end! Ef he must drown, let the red-haired devil drown! "But when they heered it, them two, him and George Olver, I knowed how it would be. I hardly durst to look.
And he struck the table with his fist so forcibly that the platters rung again. "You're a good boy, Dick; but you're too young yit to ventur' among the Red-skins." "An' yit, if I don't ventur' young, I'd better not ventur' at all.
"I tell you I ain't a-goin' to marry," repeated the captain; "though why a stout young feller like me, just turned sixty-four, shouldn't marry, is more than I can see. You know the old proverbs, lass 'It's never too late to marry'; 'Never ventur', never give in'; 'John Anderson my jo John, when we was first first " "Married," suggested Minnie.
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