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"Well, y'see, he didn't love me," answered Mrs. Skinner, solemnly. Anne opened her eyes widely and looked at Mrs. Skinner. But there was not a glint of humor on that lady's face. Evidently Mrs. Skinner saw nothing amusing in her own case. "He'd been a widder-man for three yers, and his sister kept house for him. Then she got married and he just wanted some one to look after his house.
Don't want no truck with them critters." "That's all right, old dear. You just keep right on with the outfit, and if a lumberjack so much as looks at you, set the bear on him. I know what Henry can do in that direction, having had a run-in with him myself." "Don't ye 'old-dear' me!" growled Joe. "Started that agin, have ye? Miss Wingate, if ye don't tame that husband of yers with a club, I will."
"Art mad, man? That good-for-nothing scamp run for Assembly?" "Joe ain't no fool," asserted Hennion. "An' tho' his edication and grammer ain't up ter yers an' mine, squire, he thinks so like the way folks ere jest naow a-thinkin' thet it looks ter me as if he wud be put in." "The country is going to the devil!" groaned Mr. Meredith. "And ye'll throw your doubles for that worthless "
The 'authorities had been assured that the troops were necessary for the protection of their city, but the magistrates had learned, but too recently, the nature of the protection which Van Ende, with his mercenaries, would afford. A detachment of states troops under De Yers, Champagny's nephew, encountered the regiment of Van Ende, and put it to flight with considerable loss.
Now let it be recollected that this continual and astonishing decline of agriculture, and disappearance of the rural cultivators in the latter stages of the Roman empire, took place in an empire which contained, as Gibbon tells us, 120,000,000 of inhabitants, and 1600 great cities, was 3000 miles long and 2000 miles broad, contained 1,600,000 square miles, chiefly fertile and well cultivated land, which embraced the fairest and most fertile portions of the earth, and which had been governed for eighty yers under the successive sway of Nerva, Adrian, Trajan, and the two Antonines, with consummate wisdon and the most paternal spirit.
"It's a good thing we haven't all got your capacity," remarked Rob, laughing, "or that provision tent wouldn't have held out very long." "Wall, boys," observed the captain, drawing out a black pipe and ramming some equally black tobacco into it with a horny thumb, "a full hold makes fair sailin', that's my motto and 'Be Prepared' is yers.
"There's only one answer," said Ned. "None of your business." The marshal shoved Ned nearer the table. "Mebbe ye want to apologize fur that little bluff of yers yesterday " "No," said Ned, "but I'll accept yours." Jellup's right hand was on his revolver. "I ain't hyar to make no threats," he exclaimed, "and ye don't need to be afeered that I'm going to shoot ye.
"There'll be plenty av work fer ye to do without ever yer layin' a hand to a pick er shovel," he replied comfortingly. "Shewer, that's no work fer white min. Let the nagurs do it. Look at their backs an' arrms, an' then look at yers." I was ready to blush for shame. These poor Italians whom I was so ready to contemn were immeasurably my physical superiors.
Lewis has also done put in and tended the garden same as ifn you wus here. The bungleboo in the awchard is all finished and vines and flowrs growin on it same as ef it done been there fer yers. Aunt Mary's grand darter Kizzie lows she is goin tow cook fer Miss Molly. Miss Sarah Clay is done had twelve cooks sence Christmus and I cyarnt count as high as the house girls run up tow.
There was a burst of oaths from Australian Ike. "Gone! Den we're nipped de lot of us!" The Mope's face was like a maniac's as he whirled on Stangeist. "Sure!" he croaked. "But youse gets yers first, youse " With a cry, Stangeist, to elude the blow, ducked blindly backward into the portieres and with a rip and tear the hangings were wrenched apart.
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