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'And the boys are so mean, some of them. Bill Peterkin goes there and I can't bear him, he plagues me so. Wants to kiss me. A-a-h, and says I am to be his wife, and he has got warts on his thumb! Jerry's face was sufficiently indicative of the disgust she felt for Bill Peterkin with his warts, and leaning back in his chair, Arthur laughed heartily, as he said: 'And you do not like Bill Peterkin?
I found myself a-countin' of 'em up and a-gloryin' in it all the tother night, takin' credit to myself for givin' away a few victuals after I had had plenty myself. Think of a man gittin' self-righteous over givin' to some poor fellow-critters what he couldn't eat himself! If that ain't meanness, what is it? A-a-h!" "But you haven't told me how many you have fed."
That's what I call bein' mean and a fool both. A-a-h!" Haldane stopped a moment to indulge in the first laugh he had enjoyed since his arrest. "I hope you will pardon me, my venerable friend," said he; "but you have a rather strangely honest way of talking." "I'm old, but I ain't venerable. My name is Jeremiah Growther," was the snarling reply. "I'm fraid you have too much conscience, Mr.
I hope you can see that dirt and confusion are your nateral elements; and you had to live like a pig till a boy just out of jail came to show you what it was to live like a decent human. But you've been showed before, and you'll get things mixed up to-morrow. A-a-h! "Where's that young fellow goin' to sleep to-night? That's none o' your business. Yes, 'tis my business, too.
Enter, and you will be impressed by the incredible skill of the constructor; perhaps you will be impressed by a sense of dim mystery and might; you will not be moved by pure form. You may groan "A-a-h" and collapse: you will not be strung to austere ecstasy.
The old man hitched uneasily on his chair, but at last, with his characteristic bluntness said, "Hanged if I know! They say that them that gits down doesn't very often git up again. Yet I know they do sometimes." "What would you do if you were me?" "Hanged if I know that either! Sit down and cuss myself to all eternity, like enough. I feel like doin' it sometimes as it is. A-a-h!"
Tryin' to save a half dollar; when you know it'll give you the rheumatiz, and cost ten in doctor bills! 'Nother thing; it's mean mean as dirt. You know there's poor devils who need the work, and you're cheatin' 'em out of it. But it's just like yer! A-a-h!" and then the saw began again.
A-a-h!" he broke off, flourishing his cane over his head, "there y-you slink; I w-wish I had hold of you." And I heard the running footsteps of No. 1 as he darted away, across and down the avenue. "An-and the police?" sarcastically resumed the big man, who wavered unsteadily now and then. "H-how useful are the police! How many do y-you see at this moment, pray, eh?
"My dear Marquis!" "A-a-h! I thought so; you have often said you would serve me, if possible." "My dear Marquis, be brief." "A-a-h! I will. There's a cursed crusty old Prussian officer here; one Colonel de Trumpetson." "Well, what can I do? you are surely not going to fight him!" "A-a-h! no, no; I wish you to speak to him." "Well, what?" "He takes snuff." "What is that to me?" "He has got a box."
Growther. It won't let you do comfortably what others do as a matter of course." "I've nothin' to do with other people. I know what's right, and I'm all the time hatin' to do it. That's the mean thing about me which I can't stand. A-a-h!" "I'm sorry my coming has made you so out of sorts with yourself." "If it ain't you it's somethin' else. I ain't more out of sorts than usual."
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