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Tom, I wouldn't ever got into all this trouble if it hadn't 'a' ben for that money; now you just take my sheer of it along with your'n, and gimme a ten-center sometimes not many times, becuz I don't give a dern for a thing 'thout it's tollable hard to git and you go and beg off for me with the widder." "Oh, Huck, you know I can't do that.

They are always self-conscious. A man in commerce, where men prey on their kind, must be alive and alert to what is going on, or while he dreams, his competitor will seize upon his birthright. And so you see why poets are poor and artists often beg.

You should not talk such nonsense to me, and I beg you won't again." Then she went away, and began to read a paper about sick people written by Florence Nightingale. But it was by no means Lady Staveley's desire that her daughter should take to the Florence Nightingale line of life.

I used to beg my poor lad to come out more. Maybe, I worried him; but the air is the finest thing for strengthening that I know of, Though, perhaps, she'll not thrive in English air as if she'd been born here; and she'll not be quite right till she gets back to her native place, wherever that is. 'I don't know.

"We must have started before you 'phoned." "Well, I'm sorry. You wanted two rooms. But the best we can do for you and Mrs. Hilliard is one." "Great Scot, you don't know what you're talking about!" gasped Nick. "This is Mrs. May." "Beg your pardon, Mr. May. I thought you said your name was Hilliard." "It is. But hers isn't.

Persons come to beg, sometimes, and bring a servant to carry home what is given. I never saw a mechanic carry his tools; if it be only a hammer, the hired boy must come to fetch it. Fortunately, there is not much to transport, the mechanic arts being in a very rudimentary condition.

His face had reddened, and it was the wine, I think, that made his eyes dance in the candle light. "Overlook, I beg, the rudeness of my interruption. The exceptional in your narrative quite intrigues me, my son. Doubtless your impulsive action led to the conventional result?" There he sat, amusedly examining me, smiling at my rising temper. My reply shaped itself almost without my volition.

“I am obliged thus to inform you, so that you may make such arrangements as you think fit. I beg your excellency to acknowledge receipt of this note at such time as you deem proper, taking this opportunity to reiterate to you the assurances of my distinguished consideration.

"Old Boriskoff knew I was going to get the sack and little Lois has been chattering," he argued nor did this line of reasoning at all console him. Sidney Geary, meanwhile, felt as though some one had suddenly applied a slab of melting ice to those grammatical nerves which Cambridge had tended so carefully. "My dear Mr. Kennedy not 'slap-up, I beg of you.

The stranger ought not to have asked her. He could not be a gentleman after all, or he would have seen how irregular was such a request, unless he had indeed some particular motive for wishing to see Mr Westray's room. The stranger perceived her hesitation, and read her thoughts easily enough. "I beg your pardon," he said.