up and turnedturnaround in my tracks three times and crossedcrossmy breast every time ; and then I tiedtieup a little lock of my hair with a thread to keep witches away .
I was evidently expected , for when I gotgetnear the door I facedfacea cheery-looking elderly woman in the usual peasant dress -- white undergarment with long double apron , front , and back , of coloured stuff fitting almost too tight for modesty .
‘ Old friends , ’ I saidsay, ‘ how long is it since we gotgetback from Kukuanaland ? ’
We gotgetsix thousand dollars apiece -- all gold .
Then he gotgetup , sayingsayhe had half a mind to go over to Klein 's hotel and play a game of billiards .
He gotgetback home barely in season to help Jim , the small colored boy , sawseenext-day 's wood and splitsplitthe kindlings before supper -- at least he was there in time to telltellhis adventures to Jim while Jim did three-fourths of the work .
Next , I openedopena cupboard in the wainscoting and gotgeta bottle of whisky and some tumblers and water .
One of the riders was gettinggetout of the water coveredcoverwith mud , the other lay quite still .
When he camecometo the low church wall , he gotgetover it , like a man whose legs were numbed and stiff , and then turnedturnround to look for me .
The declivity was so small , that I walkedwalknear a mile before I gotgetto the shore , which I conjecturedconjecturewas about eight o’clock in the evening .
We sat for a while , and then I gotgeta match and litlightthe lamp that stood ready on the table , for the half-light began to grow drearydreary, as it is apt to do when one has a short week ago buriedburythe hope of one ’s life .
Madame Lebrun was bustlingbustlein and out , giving ordersorderin a high key to a yard-boy whenever she gotgetinside the house , and directionsdirectionin an equally high voice to a dining-room servant whenever she gotgetoutside .
And as we gotgetfarther and farther upstream , in a dark tangle of rivers , lakes , morasses , and dense forests , with here and there an unexpected long spur running out from the big mountains beyond , I noticednoticethat more and more of these savages had a story about a strange and terrible Woman Land in the high distance .
It was on the dark side of twilight when we gotgetto Bistritz , which is a very interesting old place .
He had gotgetthe lad -- a pudding-headed fellow -- by the ear and was sayingsay, " What ?
He gotgeta good estate by merchandise , and leavingleaveoff his trade , lived afterwards at York , from whence he had marriedmarrymy mother , whose relations were named Robinson , a very good family in that country , and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer ; but , by the usual corruption of words in England , we are now called — nay we call ourselves and write our name — Crusoe ; and so my companions always called me .
At last he seemed to see a ray of hope : his sister was comingcome, and he gotgetup and ranruntoward her in his heavy shoes .
“ I gotgetthese from that stall where y' ave ter get them marbles in them holes .
Let me see : that would be four thousand miles down , I think -- ’ ( for , you see , Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her lessons in the schoolroom , and though this was not a VERY good opportunity for showing off her knowledge , as there was no one to listen to her , still it was good practice to say it over ) ‘ -- yes , that ’s about the right distance -- but then I wonderwonderwhat Latitude or Longitude I ’ve gotgetto ? ’
She wentgoquite softly to the kitchen , and was too preoccupied to ask Millie what she was messingmessabout with _ now _ , when she gotgetthere .
An ' I gotgetthese two in two goes - ' aepenny a go-they 've got moss-roses on , look here .
It was early yet ; we had just breakfastedbreakfast; and leaving wordwordthat we ’d be back before night , we gotgetaway quietly , not wishing to be thought too gullible if we failed , and secretly hoping to have some nice little discovery all to ourselves .
I gotgetinto my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again , and was free and satisfied .
I setsetdown again , a-shaking all over , and gotgetout my pipe for a smoke ; for the house was all as still as death now , and so the widow would n't know .
After suppersuppershe gotgetout her book and learnedlearnme about Moses and the Bulrushers , and I was in a sweat to find out all about him ; but by and by she letletit out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time ; so then I did n't care no more about him , because I do n't take no stock in dead people .
Margaret wentgoup into the old nursery at the very top of the house , where Newton was busy gettinggetup some laces which were required for the wedding .
When I leftleaveMr. Bates , I wentgodown to my father : where , by the assistance of him and my uncle John , and some other relations , I gotgetforty pounds , and a promisepromiseof thirty pounds a year to maintain me at Leyden : there I studied physic two years and seven months , knowing it would be useful in long voyages .