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"It's writ plain all over me, an' it has been ever sence the day that I was born. 'That's as moral lookin' a baby as ever I saw, was what Doctor Pierson said to ma when I wan't mo'n two hours old. It was so then, an' it's been so ever sence. 'Virtue may not take the place of beaux, my po' ma used to say, 'but it will ease her along mighty well without 'em' Yes, the buttons are five cents.
Only grown up people are to be there, Mrs. Crawford said. 'Yes, I know; replied Harold, 'but I'm not to be with the grown-ups. I'm to stay in the upper hall and tell 'em where to go. 'Oh, you are to be a waiter, was Mrs. Crawford's rather contemptuous remark, which Harold did not heed in his excitement.
"'INIKEN how make em? me twank skin put him on! which literally means 'Ah!
"Tituba does not hurt 'em." "Who does hurt them then?" "The debbil, for all I knows. "Did you ever see the Devil?" Tituba gave a low laugh. "Of course I've seen the debbil. The debbil came an' said, 'Serb me, Tituba. But I would not hurt the child'en." "Who else have you seen?" "Four women. Goody Osburn and Sarah Good, and two other women. Dey all hurt de child'en."
"Ef it wuzn't that I'd be dead now, I wish I'd been with him. I do enjoy sailin' on an' discoverin' lands an' waters that ain't yet got no name to 'em. It looks funny to me that we wuzn't discovered sooner, when we've always been here, but Columbus has all my respeck an' admiration 'cause he done it when the others didn't." "That shorely wuz a man," said Tom Ross, his eyes lighting up.
When you're working the supporting members of the cast you maybe could stick in some subtles once in a while to salve them censors, but so far as Monte is concerned you leave 'em out!" "But but " "Don't but me any buts! Listen! Ain't I taken my paralyzed oath that this here picture should make all the other vamp pictures which ever were taken look like pikers? I have! Listen!
Now this is our peculiarity, this absence of extreme centralization. It must be encouraged. Local jealousies, local rivalries, local triumphs these are the strength of the kingdom. Encouraged, egad! They don't want much of that here. Give some of your lean London straws a strip o' clean grass and a bit o' liberty, and you'll do 'em a service.
'Nay, William, said Philip, rising, 'it's an ill look-out for the future, if thee and me is to quarrel, like two silly wenches, o'er each bit of pleasure, or what thou fancies to be pleasure, as falls in t' way of either on us. I've said truth to thee, and played thee fair, and I've got to go to Haytersbank for to wish 'em good-by, so I'll not stay longer here to be misdoubted by thee.
'Hooray! he sings out. 'Help me to slew this blessed gun round, and we'll sink boat and all for 'em unless she slips her moorings quick! "Well, sir, that was the masterpiece. We heaved and strained, and inside of two minutes we had it trained upon the gunboat.
Then the wreckers have a notion that everything that comes ashore belongs to them. Why, I've heard even some of our old fishermen best kind of men, too talk of how government has robbed 'em of their rights." "By the new system?" "By having wrecks prevented, and saving the property for the owners." "Isn't that strange! Did you say they were good men?" "Some of 'em.
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