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Well, Pierre shall be M. Grabot, Mayor of Bottitort. You, monsieur, that we may give him enough of mayors, shall be the Mayor of Gol, and I will be the Mayor of St. Just. This gentleman shall swear to us, so shall the servants. For him, he does not exist. Oh, we will punish him finely."
The phrase, let alone, which is now used as the imperative of a verb, may in time become a conjunction, and may exercise the ingenuity of some future etymologist. Ullaloo, Gol, or lamentation over the dead "Magnoque ululante tumultu." "Ululatibus omne Implevere nemus."
He stood staring with his mouth open; and, as much deserted as the statesman who has fallen from office, had not the least credit even with his own sycophants, who to a man deserted him and flocked about the Mayor of Gol.
We did try to get out to sea again, but the north wind was raging so we could not do it, and, besides, the sailors were very unwilling to start, as a raven was sitting on the bow. At Mohammed Gol, to which port our dhow next conducted us, our prospects of getting well into the interior were much brighter, and our ultimate results beyond comparison more satisfactory than they had been at Halaib.
He counted out $1,000, saying, "I'll go you once, for I don't 'low any man to back me out." He mixed the cards up, and I turned up the one with the bent corner and won the money. The cow-boy laughed and said, "Well, I'll be gol darned if you didn't get me. You must have right smart eyes, for I swan I didn't know which one it was myself." The old gentleman asked if he would bet with him.
"Solomon came to where I was breaking some dry sticks for the fire and said laughingly, as he wiped a tear from his cheek with the back of his great right hand: "'Did ye ever see sech a gol' durn cunnin' leetle cricket in yer born days ever? "Always thereafter he referred to the boy as the Little Cricket.
Uncle Henry came to Gilbert's rescue, after the manner of all relatives when an outsider steps in with criticism. "Only a minute ago I heard you call him a gol darn fool!" Hardy triumphantly reminded him. "There you are," said Gilbert, addressing his uncle. "That's what you get " "Do you think I want my darter to marry a gol darn fool?" Hardy fired back at the old man.
"Yesm," said Genesis. "Now I'm in 'at Swim flyin' roun' ev'y night wif all lem blue-vein people I say, 'Mus' go buy me some blue-vein clo'es! Ef I'm go'n' a START, might's well start HIGH! So firs', I buy me thishere gol' necktie pin wi' thishere lady's face carved out o' green di'mon', sittin' in the middle all 'at gol'. 'Nen I buy me pair Royal King shoes.
I's a lady, but I see you do' know how to 'preciate a lady w'en you meets one. You kin jes' light in an' git yo' own dinner. I wouldn't wo'k fu' you ef you uz made o' gol'. I nevah did lak to wo'k fu' strainers, nohow. "No, ma'am, I cain't even stay an' git de dinner. I know w'en I been insulted. Seems lak ef I stay in hyeah another minute I'll bile all over dis kitchen. "Who excited? Me excited?
'If God has no voice to be heard for my client in this court-room to-day, is there no one on earth no man or woman who can speak for one who won't speak for himself? says Freddy Tarlton here. Then, by gol! for the first time Malachi opened. 'There's no one, he says. 'The speakin' is all for the sheriff. But I spoke once, and the sheriff didn't answer. Not a bit of beg-yer-pardon in it.
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