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Much as ever as he's got sense enough ter put on his own clothes and he WOULDN'T know WHEN ter put on CLEAN ones, if I didn't spread 'em out for him!" "I know it. Too bad, too bad," murmured Mrs. McGuire, with a virtuous shake of her head. "An' he with his fine bringin'-up, an' now to be so shiftless an' good-for-nothin', an' " But Susan Betts was interrupting, her eyes flashing.
You're tryin' to bust a crook, an' you remember what your French nurse told you about the etiquette of keyholes!" "You're my master at argument, Mme. Le Grange," responded Blake. "Go ahead." "And you promise to leave quiet?" "I promise." "There's one place I can trust your bringin'-up, I guess. When you're inside, feel about till you find a hassock.
John's where his dad put him, but had to go rampagin' all over the country till he'd clean forgot any bringin'-up he'd ever had, and landed up as a sort o' bailiff, as they call 'em over in the old country, on an estate down on the eastern shore.
"You c'n estimate, I reckon," he began, "what kind of a bringin'-up I had, an' what a poor, mis'able, God-fersaken, scairt-to-death little forlorn critter I was; put upon, an' snubbed, an' jawed at till I'd come to believe myself what was rubbed into me the hull time that I was the most all-'round no-account animul that was ever made out o' dust, an' wa'n't ever likely to be no diff'rent.
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