Said I to myself, 'I'll save the youngster, and I'll marry my gal to him, and there's jist two good things I'll do for the pair of 'em!' And so, captain, there's exactly the end of it.

If you'll take the gal, you shall have her, and you'll make three different critturs greatly beholden to you:--first, the gal, who's a good gal, and a comely gal, and will love and honor you jist as hard as the best madam in the land; next, myself, that am her father, and longs to give her to an honest feller, that won't misuse her, and, last, your own partickelar self;--for the taking of her is exactly the only way you have of gitting hack the old major's lands, and what I hold to be jist as agreeable, dragging clear of a hot Injun fire that will roast you to cinders if you remain in this d--d village two days longer!" "My friend," cried Roland, driven to desperation, for he perceived Atkinson was making his extraordinary proposal in perfectly good faith and simplicity, as a regular matter of matter of business, "you know not what you ask.

Free me and my kinswoman--" "As for young madam there," interrupted the renegade, "don't be at all oneasy.

She's in good hands, I tell you; and Braxley'll fetch her straight off to Virginny as soon as he has brought her to reason." "And your terms," said Roland, smothering his fury as he could, "imply an understanding that my cousin is to be surrendered to him ?" "Ondoubtedly," replied Doe; "there's no two ways about it.

I work on my own hook, in the matter of the fortun'-- 'cause how, Dick's not to be trusted where the play's all in his own hands; but as for cheating him out of the gal, there's no manner of good can come of it, and it's clear agin my own interest.