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My witness there has been bribed. The Bantam's been bribed," and he shivered his pipe with an energetic thump on the table "bribed! I knows it! I could swear to't!" "Upon oath?" Richard inquired, with a grave face. "Ay, upon oath!" said the farmer, not observing the impertinence. "I'd take my Bible oath on't! He's been corrupted, my principal witness!
The cap'en he scooted round into one port an' another arter his own business, down to Caraccas, into Rio; and when we'd rounded the Horn and was nigh about dead of cold an' short rations, and hadn't killed but three whales, we put into Valparaiso to get vittled, and there I laid hold o' this little trinket of a chain, and spliced Hetty's ring on to't, lest I should be stranded somewheres and get rid of it onawares.
"You've done for yerself already! You swore to it!" "A din't!" said the Bantam, doggedly. "You swore to't!" the farmer vociferated afresh. The Bantam played a tune upon the handle of the door, and still affirmed that he did not; a double contradiction at which the farmer absolutely raged in his chair, and was hoarse, as he called out a third time that the Bantam had sworn to it.
Accordingly, just before the next figure was formed, Selina disappeared, and speedily came downstairs in a creased and box-worn, but still airy and pretty, muslin gown, which was indeed the very one that had been meant to grace her as a bride three years before. 'It is dreadfully old-fashioned, she apologized. 'Not at all. What a grand thought of mine! Now, let's to't again.
There was a little strip of a medder-lot, and an orchard up on the mountain, where we used to make redstreak cider that beat the Dutch; but we hadn't pastur' land enough to keep more'n two cows, and altogether I knew 'twasn't any use to think of bringin' a family on to't.
'Hope you then, said one of them, as continuing their previous conversation, 'that we shall escape unhurt? It is a parlous business. Not as one of us is afeard as I knows on. But the old earl, he do have a most unregenerate temper, and you had better look to't, my masters. 'I tell thee, master Upstill, it's not the old earl as I'm afeard on, but the young lord.
I believe they were fat, though I was at that time undersized for my years, and not strong. "Darn me if I couldn't eat em," said the man, with a threatening shake of his head, "and if I han't half a mind to't!" I earnestly expressed my hope that he wouldn't, and held tighter to the tombstone on which he had put me; partly, to keep myself upon it; partly, to keep myself from crying.
He'll ne'er think o' marrying if it isna put into's head, an' if thee'dst any love for thy mother, thee'dst put him up to't an' not let her go away out o' my sight, when I might ha' her to make a bit o' comfort for me afore I go to bed to my old man under the white thorn."
I hold the door to my own Flesh and Blood! monstrum horrendum! Guz. Nay, do't, and do't handsomly too, not with a snivelling Countenance, as if you were compell'd to't; but with the face of Authority, and the awful command of a Husband or thou dyest. Enter Turk and Julia. Fran. My dear Julia, you are a Fool, my Love. Jul. For what, dear Husband? Fran. Jul. How! this from you, Francisco. Fran.
"Ay, sir," said Luke, as he gave his arm to his master, "you'll make up your mind to't a bit better when you've seen iverything; you'll get used to't. That's what my mother says about her shortness o' breath, she says she's made friends wi't now, though she fought again' it sore when it just come on."
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