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I had known him up in London yonder. Hadn't I, Jo?" "Tom-all-Alone's," the boy replied. Whenever he fixed his attention or his eyes, it was only for a very little while. He soon began to droop his head again, and roll it heavily, and speak as if he were half awake. "When did he come from London?" I asked. "I come from London yes'day," said the boy himself, now flushed and hot.
She gives her life for one sharp sting Yet hath she spent it well." "Leave it to the expert, fellows," cried Matt. "Let him get at it. Make way for the sum of all knowledge." "It's me he means," modestly admitted Chick-chick. "He wants me to tackle this peculiar tree. Peculiar tree an' peculiar bees!" "Why peculiar?" "They've done changed theirselves since I saw 'em yes'day.
Musq'oosis had made him angry, and he distrusted him. Yet he could not but be drawn to the quaint little philosopher, too. He could not but remember that Musq'oosis had been kind to him at a time when he most needed it. "How did it happen?" he asked, partly softened. The boy illustrated his story with the graphic gesticulation of his race. "Yes'day Musq'oosis not wake up at all.
"'Cause 'cause I didn't know where else to come. I been to his house and he ain't to home. Nobody ain't to home. His wife, Mis Parker, she's gone up to Boston yes'day on the coach, and and it's all dark and the house door's open and the shay's gone, so " "Who's sick? Who wants him?"
'Of course he must go an' lose his work, just when his wife's wantin' a few little extries, as you may say. 'Lost his work? 'Day 'fore yes'day. I don't like him, an' I don't like his ways; he'll be gettin' into trouble before long, you mind what I say. His family's a queer lot, 'cordin' to what they tell. Do you know them, Miss? 'I used to, a long time ago.
Mike put it in the club yes'day." The burial-club, Mrs. Sprowl meant, and Harriet evidently understood the allusion. "Have you walked?" went on the woman, doubling up her paper, and then throwing it aside. "Dessay you could do with somethin' to take the cold orff yer chest. Liz," she called out to some one behind the bar, with which the parlour communicated by an open door; "two Irish!"
There's something uncanny about it." "An' yet it's a pretty little islan', too," said Tom Ross, thoughtfully, "an' mighty glad we wuz to see it yes'day, when we wuz druv before that howlin' an' roarin' storm, with but one chance in a hundred uv livin'." "That's so," said Henry. "We owe the island a debt of gratitude if others don't.
Me ask ebbery he tell me what comes, and he say 'nothin, but I no believe he." "And has the Governor taken no notice?" "De Gobbenor lord and all de noble Buckras go yis'day to Sinkitts. Take de militia for one gran' parade in Bassetarr. Is de birfday to-morrow de Gobbenor lord de Sinkitts. Up in de Great Houses no hear nothin', an' all quiet on 'states till yes'day.
"Ah, what a deal has happened since we were here doing this that day," thought the boy; and his mind went back to his first meeting with Drew's father, the invitation to the dinner, and the scene that evening in the tavern. "Please give me a bit, good gentleman," said a whining voice at his elbow. "I'm so hungry, please, sir. Arn't had nothing since yes'day morning, sir."
Hewett's eldest daughter? 'So I understand. 'She has come home? When? 'I can't just say; but a few weeks ago, I believe. They say it's nearly two months since it was in the paper. 'Does Mrs. Hewett know about it? 'I can't say. She's never spoke to me as if she did. And, as I tell you, I only heard yes'day myself. If you're a friend of theirs, p'r'aps I hadn't oughtn't to a' mentioned it.
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