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But, you have been so much in raptures with your success, that I have, as yet, had no clear account how you came acquainted in the family. "Thorn. Oh, I'll tell you immediately. You know Lady Patchet? "Arn. What, is she here? "Thorn. It was by her I was first introduced.
No, I won't touch her, and you can't force me. I'm going out I won't stay in this room. I'm going down to the docks I mustn't lose my work. What do you say that I shan't go? Where will you all be if I don't arn your bread for you?" "Set down there on the side of the bed, father. I'll keep you five minutes and no more. You needn't be all in a tremble you needn't be showing of the white feather.
And he didn't see me. And we'll stay in this here graveyard till he's gone. He's waitin' for the steam tug to come. I guess he poled from Albany down when he couldn't use his mules." "Were Pappy Lon with him?" asked Flukey, drawing up his knees. "I dunno; I didn't wait to see. I had to 'arn this nickel." "Ye didn't steal it, Flea?" "Nope; I had it give to me for holdin' a horse.
Who would ha' thowt as ever my old ass could arn me a fine an' costs o' a summons by nibbling a mouthful o' green meat on the queen's highway, God bless her! I've done." "It is almost incredible the power of interference that is given to the police," said Lady Latimer.
He returned to Highstead unscathed, and a week later came a message from Aelward. "Meet me," it ran, "to-morrow by the Danes' barrow at noon, and we will know whether Englishman or Frenchman is to bear rule in this land." Jehan donned his hauberk and girt himself with his long sword. "There will be hot work to-day in that forest," he told Arn, who was busied with the trussing of his mail.
I think I ha' got some o' the bull-dog strain in me, and I'll hoult on to it as Bess would hoult on to a man's throat if she pinned him." "I know you will, my lad," Mrs. Haden said, while her husband, lighting his pipe and turning to go out, said: "It matters nowt to me one way or t'other, but moind, lad, larning or no larning, thou'st got to go into the pit next week and arn your living."
An' when time's o' consekens an' you got to arn your livin', you don' want to be playin' 'bout Casquets an' Jarsey 'stid of gittin' 'cross to Sark an' done wi' it." "Not a bit of it. You're quite right. Try some of this," as he began fumbling meaningly with a black stump of a pipe.
I cruised along the docks for somethin' to do in the way of stevedore: an' though I picked up a stray job here and there, I didn't arn enough to buy ship-bisket for a rat; let alone feedin' two human mouths. There wasn't nothin' honest I wouldn't have turned a hand to; but the 'longshoremen gobbled up all the work, an' a outsider like me didn't stand a show.
Then they all drew their swords, and waved them high in the firelight, and declared war on Fate. Nothing in the somber forest stirred or made any sound. Tired men do not dream of war. When morning came over the gleaming fields a company that had set out from Arn discovered the discovered the camping-place of the warriors, and brought pavilions and provender.
What's he got to say 'bout it, I'd like to know? I'll jest keep an eye on him. He don't want to let me ketch him foolin' round them traps, 'kase I'll make him think war times has come back sure enough. Now that I've got another chance to 'arn a share in them hundred and fifty dollars, nobody shan't take it away from me." Dan was as good as his word.
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