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Updated: June 18, 2025
"The work's gettin' on all ri', father." But Mr. Jellyband was peremptory. He had other views for his buxom daughter, his only child, who would in God's good time become the owner of "The Fisherman's Rest," than to see her married to one of these young fellows who earned but a precarious livelihood with their net.
Prayer after prayer to the Virgin, to the saints, Ramona had said; and candles by the dozen, though money was now scant, she had burned before the Madonna; all in vain. At last she implored Alessandro to go to San Bernardino and see a doctor. "Find Aunt Ri," she said; "she will go with you, with Jos, and talk to him; she can make him understand.
"Fall in!" commanded Brown, and his straight back took on a curve that meant straightness to the nth power. "'Tshun! Ri' dress! Eyes front!" He glared at them for just about one minute before he spoke, and during that minute each man there realized that what was coming would be quite irrevocable. "I'm sergeant here. My orders are to hold this post until relieved.
He come last month; he's a reel nice man. I seen him 'n' talked with him a spell, last week; I'm gwine to make his wife a rag carpet. 'N' there's a doctor, too, to 'tend ter yer when ye're sick, 'n' the Guvvermunt pays him; yer don't hev to pay nothin'; 'n' I tell yeow, thet's a heap o' savin', to git yer docterin' fur nuthin'!" Aunt Ri was out of breath.
You are pleas'd to make your mirth of me. Un. By this Rubie, nay you shall weare it in the broad eye of the world, dost thinke I am in Jeast. Do. Sir Richard Un. And were he ten Sir Richards, I am out of my wardship. Do. How he flutters in the lime bush! it takes rarely. Un. What a necessary thing now were a household Chaplaine. Ri. So, so, the wench inclines.
"Jeff," said Aunt Ri, "Jeff, they can't understand a word we say, so't's no harm done, I s'pose, to speak afore 'em, though't don't seem hardly fair to take advantage o' their not knowin' any language but their own; but I jest tell you thet I've got a lesson'n the subjeck uv Injuns. I've always hed a reel mean feelin' about 'em; I didn't want ter come nigh 'em, nor ter hev 'em come nigh me.
"Why?" demanded Dick; "why should I behave like shteady ole buffer, when I don't feel shteady ole buffer? What do you want shpoil fun for? Tell you I shall do jus' zackly wharriplease. And, if you shay any more, I'll punch y' head!" "No, no," said his uncle, slightly alarmed at this intimation. "Come, you're not going to quarrel with me, I'm sure!" "All ri'," said Dick. "No; I won' quarrel.
The conversation again rolled upon precipices, which it appeared were more numerous before than behind, and casualties among the woodcutters not unknown in consequence. It was here a woodcutter had been lost three days before. The ri must have been a flight of fancy, since it far exceeded the height of the pass above the sea.
What shall I do? I shall never sleepe agen. Ri. Which tooth ist? Do. The sweet one you may be sure which troubles her. La. This, this, O that there. Ri. They are happie that are old and have no teeth. La. Oh, take heed, now it shoots up to my head. Ri. Thou dost make my head ake with the noise. La. If you knew what I suffer your head would ake indeed.
By elevating my head and stretching my neck to its uttermost length, my chin meanwhile resting upon the top tier or layer of my belongings, I was able to perceive the form of a large male, in a recumbent attitude upon a berth with his face turned from me. "All ri'," came the voice, which seemed to be muffled in the pillows, "all ri', steward, set 'em down anywhere!" "Sit what down?"
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