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She were an' old lady in a pair-'oss phaeton wi' plenty o' sparklers an' nice white hair: a rosy old creetur, comfortably plump and round 'specially in front. 'O Mr. 'ighwayman! says she, weepin' doleful as she tipped me 'er purse an' the shiners, ''ow could ye do it? 'Ma'm, I says, wipin' my eyes wi' my pistol and 'ma'm, I don't know but do it I must! An' I rode away quite down-'earted."
"Vickers said to swing sharply to the left after passing the middle," declared the driver sonorously, "but I don't see any wagon tracks that miserable rain last night must have obliterated them." "I reckon the rain has obliterated them," grinned the rider, laboring with the word, "if that means wipin' them out. Leastways, they ain't there any more." "I feel quite sure that Mr.
I allows it's 'cause he's among rank strangers, an' he figgers it's a good safe play to lookout his game for himse'f. "'I wonder couldn't we sing him to sleep, says Cherokee Hall. "'Nothin' ag'in a try, says Jack, some desp'rate, wipin' his lips after the drink. "'S'pose we-alls gives him "The Dyin' Ranger" an' "Sandy Land" for an hour or so, an' see, says Boggs. "In we trails.
Mester Adrian was to go with her Sir Adrian, I should say, but he was but Mester Adrian then an' a two three more o' th' gentry as was all fur havin' a share o' th' fightin'. Sir Thomas himsel' was theer I like as if I could see him now, poor owd gentleman, talkin' an' laughin' very hard an' jov'al, an' wipin' 's e'en when he thought nobody noticed. Eh, dear, yes!
When John looked into heaven he saw gold streets and gates of pearl, but he don't say anything about gyardens. I like what he says about no sorrer, nor cryin', nor pain, and God wipin' away all tears from their eyes. That's pure comfort.
Sez Josiah, "You seem to take to China ways so, you and Arvilly, that I spoze mebby you'll begin to bandage your feet when you git home, and toddle round on your big toes." And I sez, "I d'no but I'd jest as soon do that as to girt myself down with cossets, or walk round with a trailin' dress wipin' up all the filth of the streets to carry home to make my family sick." But it is a awful sight.
"She would not be the woman you love, if she could restrain her hand from liftin' up the fallen, wipin' tears from weepin' eyes, speakin' brave words for them who can't speak for themselves. "The very strength of her affection that would hold you up, if you were in trouble or disgrace, yearns to help all sorrowin' hearts.
Ol' Monody had picked out the toughest pony at the Lion Head, an' he had good hands, but he never sighted me till the night I reached the ranch and was busy wipin' Starlight's legs. "I got some news for ya," sez ol' Monody, gettin' down slow from his leg-weary roan. "I'll tell it to ya while you 're eatin supper," an' I was sure glad to see him an' glad to eat food again.
Mogue was also a good deal subject to the influence of the pathetic, especially when he alluded to the misfortune, glory be to God, which had befallen the family, in the person of a lone line of ancestors, and especially in that of big poor, simple father, whose word, as every one knew, was as good as his oath; and, indeed, very few doubted that remarkable fact, but who, notwithstanding had been transported during the space of seven years for suspicion of perjury; "for didn't the judge tell him, when he passed sentence upon him, that if he had been found guilty all out, or of anything beyant suspicion of it, he would be transported for life; 'an' instead of that, said the judge, 'bekaise I persave, says he, 'that you're an honest man, an' has been sworn against wrongfully in this business, and bekaise I see clearly that you love the truth, the sentence of the coort is, says he, sheddin' tears, 'that you're to be transported only for seven years, an' you lave the coort an' the counthry, says he, 'widout at stain upon your character it's only the law that's against you so, God be wid you, the judge went on, wipin' his eyes, 'and grant you a safe and pleasant voyage acrass, says he, an' he cried for some minutes like a child.
But lo, as I stood there wipin' my weepin' eyes, as the him sez, I hearn sunthin' that rung sweetly and clearly on my ears over all the conflicting sounds and confusion, and that brung me with wildly beatin' heart to the side of the ship. "Samantha! stop the ship! wait for me! I am comin'!" Could it be?
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