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Rosey, conscious of her lover's irritation, and more eager to soothe his impatience than from any faith in her suggestion, interfered. "Why not examine the place where he was concealed? he may have left some traces of his search." The two men looked at each other. "Seem' ez I've turned the Pontiac over to Sleight jist ez it stands, I don't know ez it's 'xactly on the square," said Nott doubtfully.
But look here, old gal; where are you goin'? To have a drink, I suppose?" "Jus' so. That's 'xactly where I'm a-steerin' to." "Well, now," cried Pat, seizing the woman's hand, "come along, an' I'll give you somethin' to drink. Moreover, I'll treat you to some noos as'll cause your blood to curdle, an' your flesh to creep, an' your eyes to glare, an your hair to stand on end!"
All the others who saw him said, too, there was a strong smell of sulphur, wherever he'd been, and that he vanished away in a flame of fire; but I can't 'xactly swear to that myself." I laughed outright at the absurdity of the story, and was more convinced than ever that the men had allowed their imaginations to be worked up to a pitch which would make them believe anything.
The speaker, in her turn, moved away with a youth who asked her, with much unnecessary emphasis, "what the 'ell she had to do with Albey's feet and why she couldn't leave Chris Denham alone." "If I ain't 'xactly gawn on Russian taller myself, wot's agen Albey a-doin' of it," he asked authoritatively. "Leave the lidy alone and don't arst no questions.
"I didn't even turn my head; 'xactly as I stood, I remained, and I spoke no louder than himself: "'If you want to know, sir, it's nothing but just damned tom-foolery. "We had, of course, been having short talks together at one time or another during the passage. I dare say he had read me like a book.
But you don't still, believe in this ghost, do you, George?" "N-o-o-o not 'xactly," answered George, hesitating upon the word, "can't say as I believe 'xactly, and yet, Lord! 'ow should I know?" "Then you do still believe in the ghost?"
I know 'xactly wot's got to be done, d'ye see. Turn her on her face there; never go for to put a drownded body on its back, be it man or woman. Stick that coat under her breast, and her arm under her forehead. So, now we'll go to work."
"I shay, Matt Quintal," returned the other, who was beginning to talk rather thickly, so powerful was the effect of the liquor on his unaccustomed nerves; "I shay, ole feller, you used to sing well once. Come g-give us a stave now." "Bah!" was Quintal's reply, with a look of undisguised contempt. "Jus-so. 'Xactly my opinion about it. Well, as you won't sing, I'll give you a ditty myself."
"It's considerable over a hundred acres, though I don't 'xactly know how much. Not what you'd call big, and not what you'd call little." "But you grow beautiful crops on it, I don't doubt," remarked La Fleur. "Can't say about that," said Mike, shaking his head a little. "I 'spects we'll git good 'nough craps for what we do for 'em. This ain't the kind of farm your lords and ladies has got.
"Yes, lass; it's only a nickname the old tub got in the north, where they call the colliers coal-coffins, 'cause it's ten to one you'll go to the bottom in 'em every time ye go to sea." "Are they all so bad as to deserve the name?" inquired Susan. "No, not 'xactly all of 'em; but there's a good lot as are not half so fit for sea as a washin' tub.
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