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Updated: June 26, 2025
"'As the sparks fly upward!" she whispered, as she reached the cottage door, "Yes, mother was right, 'as the sparks fly upward!" "Ach y fi!" said Ann one day as the autumn slipped by, "only a week before Will goes; there's dull it will be without him!" "Twt, twt!" said Will, tossing his tawny mane, "'twill only be for three months.
And missus says to me, 'William, she says, 'this is Miss Gwladys's sister, her twin-sister, she says, 'Miss Valmai Powell. And I couldn't say nothing, if you believe me, with my eyes as big as saucers. Ach y fi! there's an odd thing!" In the drawing-room after dinner there were endless questions and answers, each one seeming to find in the other's history a subject of the deepest interest. Mrs.
Slowly now, with even impulse, the silver disc swung right, swung left, like the pendulum of a clock. Even the Nigger dog seemed hypnotised, following the dim shine of the tarnished token. "I say Nicholas's sister: 'It is thirty winters I see that silver picture first; I give you two dolla for him. She say 'No. I say, 'Gi' fi' dolla. 'No. I sit and think far back thirty winters back.
He was treated as a son of the family by the Duke, one of whose many Christian names, his lordship, Francis George Xavier, Earl of Kew and Viscount Walham, bears. Kew remain among a pack of psalm-singing old women and parsons with his mother! Fi donc! Frank was Lady Kew's boy; she would form him, marry him, leave him her money if he married to her liking, and show him life.
Jim planted himself in front of me; his voice quavered nervously. "All time I un-lock! Fi' 'tlock whistle blow I go quick! Nobody wait. I all time run." "Why should you run? What is the knocker for?" I repeated. At this I stepped past him startling him somewhat, and hurled open the front door. I had heard our coy watchman going down the path.
He knew that Ike had an utter detestation of Pete, and did not have to guess at the reason. "I paid him more than that by fi' hundred. How's that?" "Tcha'! Pete ain't no account anyways," Ike retorted angrily. "Say, he pitches his dollars to glory at poker 'most every night. Pete ain't got no sort o' savee. You don't see me bustin' my wad that way." "How about the gals?
I reckon it ain' so much so nowadays, but befo' de wah, in slab'ry times, er nigger didn' mine goin' fi' er ten mile in a night, w'en dey wuz sump'n good ter eat at de yuther een. "So atter a w'ile Mars Dugal' begin ter miss his scuppernon's.
He is a wonderful metaphysician, I hear; I can answer for his chemical powers: the moment he enters a room the very walls grow damp; as for me, I dissolve; I should flow into a fountain, like Arethusa, if happily his lordship did not freeze one again into substance as fast as he dampens one into thaw." "Fi donc!" cried La Meronville.
And if anything could render his conduct more theoretically incorrect it was a certain exalted sense that he was doing quite right and was not only NOT a bad sort of fellow, but one whom his survivors might possibly regret! "Are you ready, gentlemen? One two three fi . . . !"
Jamie and Vada paused only till the grown-up eyes were turned in their direction, then their chorus broke out in one breath. "We got fi' 'piders " "An' two bugs!" The important information was fairly shrieked, to the accompaniment of dancing eyes and flushed cheeks. Jessie gasped. But her emotion was not at the news so rudely broken. It was the breaking of the spell which had held her.
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