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They only give him a month, considerin' of him bein' wounded in the war. It'd been more if they'd a-known he was a-hankerin' after that young girl a married man like him; don't ye think so, sir?" Hilary's face had assumed its retired expression. 'I cannot go into that with you, it seemed to say. Quick to see the change, Creed rose.
"Might a-known you'd hurt me if you moved so fast," he complained, nursing his wounded face in such a way as to hide it. "I'm sorry. I did my best to go carefully," the girl answered, stepping forward. His hand shot forward and caught her wrist Her startled eyes flashed to his face. The man was the convict Blackwell. "Got anything to eat with you. I'm starving," he snapped. "Yes.
The neighbors came to the scene and looked on in bewilderment. "I knew that chap was up to sunthin'," Jem could hear the farmer say who had proffered the advice on the day previous. "He's old Joe French's boy, you know." "You might a-known then he was smarter 'n lightnin'," said another.
"Ef I'd a-known!" she exclaimed, under her breath. "We're 'most there, Cousin Rebecca," said Copernicus, with deprecating softness. "Here, give me holt o' yer hand while we climb over the wall. Here's Burnham's swamp right now."
"No, he didn't, Ma'am; he didn't even suspect who you was. He took you for a circus woman. And as for reporting what he had seen to anybody in that house, it would have been as much as his life was worth. Old Colonel Purley he's a uncle of our bailiff old Colonel Purley would have peeled the skin offen his body, if he had a-known he had done such a mean thing in his tavern." "Then how "
That was what told me he was Dick Moore when I saw him first down in Cuby. If it hadn't a-bin for his eyes I mightn't a-known him, with his beard and fat. You know, I reckon, that it was me found him and brought him home. Miss Cornelia always says I shouldn't have done it, but I can't agree with her. It was the RIGHT thing to do and so 'twas the only thing.
Show you a sample of the stock within an hour's ride. You can just bet that old Tom Green County has got the steers! Sugar, if I'd a-known that you was in a hurry, I could have shown you the cattle the next morning after you come. Captain, you ought to know me well enough by this time to speak your little piece without any prelude.
"Get on get on, or we'll never get to Salisbury this day." Then at length old Blaskett found a voice. "Does thee know what thee's saying, Master Lampard, or be thee a stranger in this parish?" "What d'ye mean, Daddy? I be no stranger; I've a-known this parish and known 'ee these nine years." "Thee asked why I stopped when 'twas the pony stopped, knowing where we'd got to.
I fit my way up to the city of Mexico long er old Scott, and I've heard boys crow afore today." "Look here, old un! If you mean to call me a coward, why don't you say so, right up and down?" growled Ben. "Time'll tell, my boy. You don't know what gunpowder smells like yet. If you'd been with the fust Pennsylvany, where I was, you'd a-known sunthin about war.
He waited patiently. "I might a-known it," she was sobbing. "Where?" she finally asked, removing the apron from her head and gazing up at him with a stricken face in which there was little curiosity. "I don't know anywhere." As he spoke, the tree across the street appeared with dazzling brightness on his inner vision.
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