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Wall, they tuk up another man, quicker 'n the fust, but he wa'n' nowhere near s' big 'n' cordy. Wa'n't only one crack o' the swords in thet air fight. Could n't hardly say Jack Robinson 'fore the cuss hed fell. Ray hurt him bad, I guess, for they hed t' pick 'im up 'n' carry 'im off luk a baby.
Some felt of the animal's mane and touched his streaming flanks and cordy legs to see if it were really a horse and not an apparition, while "What is it?" and "Who is he?" was whispered down the lines. Then the old rider spoke for the first time, and said simply: "Men, I have come to lead you in." A mighty shout came up. "It's General Lee! he has come to lead us in," they shouted.
Hough caught it, saving Neale from a sounding slap in the face. "Ruby, don't lose your temper," remonstrated the gambler. "He insulted me!" she cried, passionately. "He did not. Ruby, you're spoiled " "Spoiled hell! ... Didn't he look at me, flirt with me? That's why I asked him to dance. Then he insulted me. I'll make Cordy shoot him up for it."
'Cordy bally, by Jove! Potts cried. But the moment after this disengaged ejaculation, he was taken with a bewilderment. 'At the Opera? he questioned of his perplexity. 'No, sir, not at the Opera, Fleetwood rejoined. 'The lady's last public appearance was at the altar. 'Sort of a suspicion of having seen her somewhere. Left her husband behind, has she? 'You see: she has gone in.
The connexion between the two branches of the Shelley family is also set forth incidentally, but with perfect distinctness in Collins's Peerage of England , vol. iii. p. 119. I am indebted to Mr. J. Cordy Jeaffreson for some strongly reasoned arguments, in private-correspondence, tending to Harriet's disculpation.
But there's a heap of fellers runnin' her an' some of them didn't cotton to me. One they called Cordy he shore did get offensive. He's the four-flush, loud kind. I didn't want to make any trouble for the girl Ruby thet's her name so I was mighty good-natured.... I dropped in Stanton's to-day. Ruby spotted me fust off, an' SHE asked me to dance. Shore I'm no dandy dancer, but I tried to learn.
He stalked into that dancing-hall, where his voice stopped the music and the dancers. "Come out heah!" he shouted to the pale Cordy.
We was gettin' along powerful nice when in comes Cordy, hoppin' mad. He had a feller with him. An' both had been triflin' with red liquor. You oughter seen the crowd get back. Made me think Cordy an' his pard had blowed a lot round heah an' got a rep. Wal, I knowed they was bluff. Jest mean, ugly four-flushers. Shore they didn't an' couldn't know nothin' of me.
It was just as God would have a wedding, I fancy, if He were the master o' ceremonies, as He ought to be. "They are now settled on a thousand acres o' land here in New England. Dan has eight gangs o' human oxen from Italy at work for him getting in his fertilizers. He rides a horse all day an' is as cordy as a Roman gladiator. Do you know what it means?
I wanted to go an' cuff that feller's ears an' grab hold o' him an' toss him over the ridge pole. Abe went right up to him an' said: "'Jack, you ain't half so bad or half so cordy as ye think ye are. You say you can throw down any man here. I reckon I'll have to show ye that you're mistaken. I'll rassle with ye. We're friends an' we won't talk about lickin' each other.
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