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"That's wot I says, so I do, out-an'-out," observed Bounce, who had come up unperceived, and had overheard the greater part of the above remarks. "Jist wot I thinks myself, Mr Bertram, only I couldn't 'xactly put it in the same way, d'ye see? That's wot I calls out-an'-out feelosophy." "Glad to hear you're such a wise fellow," said McLeod patronisingly.
"Oh, yes, boss, ah work in Kingston ten years as a bar-maid." "Married?" "No, boss, ah's not 'xactly married. Ah's livin' with a person." A colored family: Sarah Green, very black, has a child named Edward White, and is now living with Henry Brown, a light yellow negro. West Indian wit: A shop-sign in Empire: "Don't ask for credit. He is gone on vacation since January 1, 1912."
She was conscious of the gyrations of Andy Bishop curled in the straw under her slender body, and she knew her curls were shrouding a face distorted with anxiety. "Are you sick, kid?" questioned Burnett, when he could draw a natural breath. "Well, ye see," acknowledged Tess, "I ain't 'xactly sick, but I got my ankle all packed up.
'Not everything, says Teddy, confidently, 'you don't know that I'm feeling rather empty, not 'xactly hungry but as if I could eat my tea. 'Well, I dare say it is time to go in, says his aunt, 'and if you will cease to sit on my feet I will get up. Teddy rises with alacrity, and not till they get to the square gate do they remember they have not got the key. 'How tiresome, ejaculates Philippa.
And was not Diana "Mis' Starling's daughter?" And Diana seemed not to hear or care what she had to say! "Everybody comes to the post office," she went on grimly; "you hev' only to watch, and you see all the folks; and you know all that is goin' on. An' that suits me 'xactly." "But you had nothing to do with the post office," said Diana. "How could you see everybody?"
But," added he, observing the other's embarrassment, "dat is needer here nor dere. I always suspect you bery much, sar, and is willing to do anything to obleege you. Tell us, now, 'xactly, what you want me to do." "Why, you see, I want somebody to go along with me to be there when I take him, that's all. The island's three or four miles off, and I shall want you to help row the boat."
You see my old chronometer is but a poor one, the worse of the wear, like its master, and I've never been able to make out the exact time that we went aboard the Termagant the night you went away. Now, can you tell me what o'clock it was?" "I can." "'Xactly?"
"I should think the receipt would be worth ten dollars," observed Aunt Maria thoughtfully. "Not 'xactly here," returned the captain, with one of his dried smiles, which had the air of having been used a great many times before. "Halibut too skurce. Wal, I was goin' to tell ye 'bout this nigger. He come to be the cook he was because he was a big eater.
"No; what was he?" said Marston, yawning and closing his eyes. "I dun know 'xactly wot he was. I'm not overly sure that I even know wot he is, but I know wot the trappers says of him; an' if only the half o't's true, he's a shiner, he is." Having said this much, Bounce filled his tomahawk, lighted it, puffed a large cloud from it, and looked through the smoke at his companion.
"Like as not the young man's 'xactly what he claims to be. Still, Willie's awful gullible, an' there's times when a word of warnin' ain't such a bad thing. I'm sorry if you didn't like it." "I didn't like it, not at all," the girl returned, only slightly mollified by his conciliatory tone. "If you are anything of a gentleman you will apologize to Mr. Morton immediately."
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