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There was the usual eagerness among the fashionable vulgar to make acquaintance with anything that combined broken English and a title; and two minutes after a Russian prince had seated himself comfortably on a sofa beside Kate, he was vehemently tapped on the shoulder by Mrs. Courtenay Brash with the endearing summons: "Why! Prince, I didn't see as you was here.
A moment later I was close to her, apologising first for not having been more on the spot at her arrival, but saying in the next breath uncontrollably: "Why my dear lady, it's a Holbein!" "A Holbein? What?" "Why the wonderful sharp old face so extraordinarily, consummately drawn in the frame of black velvet. That of Mrs. Brash, I mean isn't it her name? your companion."
Strange so many brash ones like you wanter try, but few on 'em ever dast git in ag'in. But I've be'n down so often." Then he peered about the cabin. "Looks like none o' the boys was to home. Wish they was; they might git us up a little dinner. It's jest twelve." He went inside the open door, and I heard him foraging about, the shanty echoing hollowly to the clumping of his big boots.
And it was sentiments like that, only maybe worded not quite so brash, that I passed out to Old Hickory a little later on. He listens about as sympathetic as a traffic cop hearin' why you tried to rush the stop signal. "I think we have discussed all that before, young man," says he.
But I've been counting on you, Woodhull, to throw in with me and help me get things shook down." "Well, hit looks to me ye're purty brash as usual," commented another voice. Bill Jackson came and stood at the captain's side. He had not been far from Woodhull all day long. "Ye're a nacherl damned fool, Sam Woodhull," said he. "Who 'lected ye fer train captain, an' when was it did?
"Now, Mister Scruggs, le's see you do some makin', since you're so brash." "Here, stop that, you little scamps," shouted Si, whose attention had been so far devoted to quieting Harry and Gid, and showing them how to prepare their traps for marching. "Great Scott, can't you git along without fightin'? I'm goin' to take you where you'll git real fightin' enough to satisfy you.
That WOULD be a pretty howdy-do. Come out from under that bed, Huck Finn." So I done it. But not feeling brash. Aunt Sally she was one of the mixed-upest-looking persons I ever see except one, and that was Uncle Silas, when he come in and they told it all to him.
These human creatures are even as children, they are brash and unconcerned.
War makes men fast; I know that for my home has been in the track of both armies." "You live in this neighborhood?" "Yes, about twenty miles south of where we are now. Shall I tell you what I am doing here?" I bowed, eager to learn although I had not been brash enough to inquire. "You have been wondering all night," carelessly.
"I'd know but we was a little brash about goin' out," William said to him as Robert lay there smiling up at him. "Oh, I'm all right now," the sick man said. "Matie," the alien cried, when William had gone, "we knew our neighbors now, don't we? We never can hate or ridicule them again." "Yes, Robert. They never will be caricatures again-to me."
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