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"'Two points, Governor the gent had been a sailor and a soldier; now how about the tanner business? "He scratched his head, moving the ridiculous cap. "'That sort of puzzled me, and I pussyfooted along toward the Inlet thinkin' about it. If a man was a tanner, and especially a foreign, hand-workin' tanner, what would his markin's be?
"I would never be so lacking in politeness, however true it might be!" he answered, rolling a cigarette. Mrs. Corbett looked at him a minute, then she broke out, "Oh, but you are the smooth-tongued gent! you'd coax the birds off the bushes; but I want to tell you that you are not doing right hanging around Mrs. Brydon the way you do."
"Yes, sir, the railroad hotel and a first-rate hotel it is." "And are there no other inns?" "Yes, but they are all poor places. No gent puts up at them all the gents by the railroad put up at the railroad hotel." What was I to do? after turning up my nose at the railroad, was I to put up at its hotel? Surely to do so would be hardly acting with consistency.
On the 18th he wrote: 'Boswell is with us in good humour, and plays his part with his usual vivacity. On this Baretti noted in his copy: 'That is, he makes more noise than anybody in company, talking and laughing loud. On p. 216 in vol. i. he noted: 'Boswell is not quite right-headed in my humble opinion. In the Gent. Mag. for 1777, p. 458, it is described as a 'violent shock.
"Hearin' you talk, Ronicky," he said, "you'd think you was really scared of Dan Barry." Ronicky Joe stiffened in his saddle and peered through the uncertain light to make out if Sliver were jesting. But the latter seemed perfectly grave. "A gent would almost think," went on Sliver, "that we three was runnin' away from Barry, instead of goin' out to set a trap for him."
Dan is in hard luck; Cherokee on his part gets driven out each hand; an' Ellis an' the avaricious gent is doin' what little winnin's bein' done, between 'em. It's evident by this time, too, the avaricious gent's layin' for Cherokee. This oninstructed person looks on Cherokee as both imbecile an' onlucky to boot. "The avaricious gent gets action suddener than he thinks. It's a jack pot.
How well he remembered that artful conversation. How hideous it appeared to him now. "But I don't think Mr. Hepworth remembers us for positive, even now," said the woman; "just look in my face, young gent, and say if you do."
"There's an old gent up in your room," announced Buttons, tumbling off, a sleepy heap, from one of the office chairs, to look at him. "An old gentleman in my room," repeated Jasper, turning on the stairs. "Why was any person put in my room?" "We didn't put the person there," said the boy, yawning fearfully, "he put himself there.
When I had read it, slowly, for his benefit, he brought his hand down smartly on one knee and nodded rapidly. "Mister," he said, "that gent knows a thing or two, and don't you forgit it!" Then he demanded, abruptly, how I knew he hadn't been behind the Graham Glacier. I explained. "Shucks!" he said; "there's a road five miles wide inter that there table-land.
"Said he was nearer the Sally when his boat took in so much water. And the tide was running out, no doubt. But it always did seem queer to me," continued Tom. "What was queer?" I asked the question without the slightest eagerness indeed, I really was not interested much in what the old sailor was saying. "Queer that such a smart-appearin', intelligent gent should have got himself in such a fix."
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