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He will tell you that I was n't on to my job, so he helped me out." "Aw, furgit it," grinned Jimmy sheepishly. "Dat wa'n't nuttin'. I only showed him ye could n't sell no poipers widout hollerin'." A curious look of admiration and relief came to the face of the Girl. Her eyes softened. "You mean " She stopped, and the man nodded his head gravely. "Yes, miss. I was alone, waiting for Thompson.
'But the Capt'n niver said a single wurrd. He choked where he stud, an' thin he went into his thrap widout sayin' good-night, an' I wint back to barricks. 'And then? said Ortheris and I together. 'That was all, said Mulvaney; 'niver another word did I hear av the whole thing. All I know was that there was no e-vasion, an' that was fwhat I wanted.
"This isn't bad for a haythen counthry," said Felix, as he stretched himself on the lower couch. "We'll git to Calcutty widout breakin' ahl the bones in our bodies." "This is vastly better than anything I expected to find here," replied Louis, as he pushed his crony over against the partition, and lay down at his side.
"You see," says his Riv'rence, by this time they wor mixing their third tumbler, "the writings of them Fathers is to be thrated wid great veneration; and it 'ud be the height ov presumption in any one to sit down to interpret them widout providing himself wid a genteel assortment ov the best figures of rhetoric, sich as mettonymy, hyperbol, cattychraysis, prolipsis, mettylipsis, superbaton, pollysyndreton, hustheronprotheron, prosodypeia and the like, in ordher that he may never be at a loss for shuitable sintiments when he comes to their high-flown passidges.
"Did see stay to get gun knapsack oder good t'ing plenty about; pick him up, fast as want him." Here Nick coolly opened a small bundle, and exhibited an epaulette, several rings, a watch, five or six pairs of silver buckles, and divers other articles of plunder, of which he had managed to strip the dead. "All good t'ing plenty as stone have him widout askin'."
When the horse was saddled, and Dionysius on his way with all due pomp to the Station, old Denis broke the matter to his wife. "Mave, achora," said,he, "I have sthrange news to tell you: sure Dionnisis is goin' to make himself a gintleman." "Sure what?" "Dionnisis, our son Dionnisis, is goin' to make himself a gintleman; he'll ate no longer widout a knife and fork."
God be wid the time when I went to the classical seminary ov Firdramore! when I'd bring my sod o' turf undher my arm, and sit down on my shnug boss o' straw, wid my back to the masther and my shins to the fire, and score my sum in Dives's denominations ov the double rule o' three, or play fox and geese wid purty Jane Cruise that sat next me, as plisantly as the day was long, widout any one so much as saying, "Mikey Hefferman, what's that you're about?" for ever since I was in the one lodge wid poor ould Mat I had my own way in his school as free as ever I had in my mother's shebeen.
"Widout dem mules an' niggahs an' bar'ls dah wouldn't be 'nough water in dis town to wet a chaw tobacky." A winding macadamized road leads up the river bank to the main street running parallel with it. There is a short cut by a rickety stairway, but, as some steep climbing has to be done before reaching the lower step, it is seldom used.
You see, Moodie," he continued, "I have no hat never wear hat want no shade to my eyes love the sun see all around me up and down much better widout hat. Could not put grapes in hat blanket-coat too large, crush fruit, juice run out. I had noting but my shirt, so I takes off shirt, and brings grape safe over the water on my back.
"No, indeed!" returned the boy; and he told her of his good fortune. "Zat ees nice!" exclaimed the Frenchwoman. "I hope you gits zee place widout trouble." And then she gave a little sigh as she thought of her son's uncertain search. "Maybe Frank will be as lucky," said Richard, who fancied he could read her thoughts. "I sincerely hope so," returned Mrs. Massanet.
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