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But I don't care what you say: I've saved everything all but that beautiful English novel, that I've forgot the name of. And if they didn't take it out of my hand, and chopped it to bits like so much dog's-meat. "And when I so seldom buy a book! No: I don't see how it served me right.
"How spiteful the world be!" said Mrs. Lobkins, after a pause, "'specially if a 'oman keeps a fashionable sort of a public! When Judith died, Joe, the dog's-meat man, said I war all the better for it, and that she left I a treasure to bring up the urchin. One would think a thumper makes a man richer, 'cause why? Every man thumps!
Joe, the dog's-meat man, had indeed got into society entirely from a knack of saying impertinent things to everybody; and the smartest exclusives of the place, who seldom visited any one where there was not a silver teapot, used to think Joe had a great deal in him because he trundled his cart with his head in the air, and one day gave the very beadle of the parish "the cut direct."
"How spiteful the world be!" said Mrs. Lobkins, after a pause, "'specially if a 'oman keeps a fashionable sort of a public! When Judith died, Joe, the dog's-meat man, said I war all the better for it, and that she left I a treasure to bring up the urchin. One would think a thumper makes a man richer, 'cause why? Every man thumps!
I'd rayther be a hosier I'd rayther be a 'atter I'd rayther be an undertaker I'd rayther be a Pusseyite parson I'd rayther be a pig-jobber I'd rayther be a besom-maker I'd rayther be a dog's-meat man I'd rayther be a cat's-meat man I'd rayther go about a sellin' of chick-weed and sparrow-grass! added he, as his horse nearly slipped up on his haunches.
remarks Bobby, presently, veiling his discomfiture in vulgarity, and launching into uncouth and low-lived rhyme: "'Lights is riz, says the dog's-meat man!" However, not all the hot tears in the world not all the swelled noses and boiled-gooseberry eyes avail to alter the case. Not even all my righteous wrath against the boys profits and I do keep Bobby at arms'-length for a day and a half.
I hate you all! you are all g g glad that he is going, and I I never was so sorry for any thing in my life before!" I end in a passion of tears. There is a silence of consternation on the late so jubilant assembly. "'Times is changed, says the dog's-meat man,"
What, though, as a rule, does your pretty pink and white know about buttons, or darning, or cooking? Why, we had the very best of cooking; not boiled tag and rag, but nice stews and roasts and hashes, when other men were growling over a dog's-meat dinner.
Tarbell, meanwhile, led her willing captive along, delighting in his cheerful aspect and expressive tail. He was dirty, to be sure, and he was presumably hungry. Who could tell what hardships he had suffered before falling into the brutal hands of the law? She stopped to buy her dinner, to which she added five cents' worth of dog's-meat, but the milliner's door was passed coldly by.
'That's what I call a self-evident proposition, as the dog's-meat man said, when the housemaid told him he warn't a gentleman. 'Ah, said the red-haired man, surveying Mr. Weller from head to foot with a supercilious look. 'Friend of yours, sir? 'Not exactly a friend, replied Mr. Pickwick, in a low tone.
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