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"Here Dan," said one, to the bar-keeper, "havn't you a pledge for him to sign." "O, yes! Bring a pledge! Bring a pledge! Has no one a pledge?" rejoined another, in a tone of ridicule. "Yes, here is one," said a man in a firm tone, entering the shop at the moment. "Who wants to sign the pledge?" "I do!" Graham said, in a calm voice.
I am coming to Boston some time during the season to lecture before your Mercantile Library, and have promised to make something of a visit; but I fear it will hardly be possible to stay long. X was on my track yesterday, although I havn't seen him for an age. I hear he projects Europe again, but know nothing definite.
But late that night, when the bar was closed and the last loiterer was summarily ejected, Mr. Roscommon, in the conjugal privacy of his chamber, produced a legal-looking paper. "Read it, Maggie, darlint, for it's meself never had the larning nor the parts." Mistress Roscommon took the paper: "Shure, it's law papers, making over some property to yis. O Moike! ye havn't been spekilating!"
X. was expensive and soon became poor, Y. was the wise man and kept want from the door. "Now for the grouse!" added he, as the two beefs disappeared, and they took their stations at the top and bottom of the table. "Fine birds, to be sure! Hope you havn't burked your appetites, gentlemen, so as not to be able to do justice to them smell high werry good gamey, in fact.
I hope I havn't tired you so that you will forbid my coming again. I will promise not to talk about myself next time," he said, as he turned to go down the path. I wondered what his book was like, as I lazily watched him cross the street in the noonday sun, and then I remembered with a twinge of conscience that I had hardly written a thousand words since I came.
Fancy, Lorton, two thousand millions cubic feet of heroes, eh! But, you havn't told us what amount of dust and ashes you would apportion to each separate hero " he thus proceeded, with his caustic wit, seeing that Bessie Dasher and her sister were both laughing; and even Min was smiling, at his absurdities.
He had walked slowly on, in painful abstraction, for about five minutes, when a hand was laid on his arm, and a familiar voice said "Is this you, Graham! Where in the name of Pluto have you been, for the last three weeks? Why, how blue you look about the gills! Havn't been sick, I hope?" "Indeed I have, Harry," Alfred replied, in a feeble voices. "It came very near being all over with me."
Where had I the pleasure of seein' you before, I never cut a lady in my life, could'nt do so rude a thing. Havn't the honour to recollect you. 'Oh, Sir, take it away, it cuts me. Poor thing, she is distracted, I don't wonder. She's drove crazy, though I think she must have been mad to come here at all. 'Your hat, Sir. 'Oh, that cussed French hat is it?
'Ain't a mite of danger! says he: 'why, stranger, we havn't killed more nor two dozen this year or more. That Young America was a go-ahead I was fully conscious; still, being somewhat anxious to extend a little friendly advice to Gineral Pierce, I begged to be excused from all dangers, Young America must live to proclaim the manifest destiny of a universal republic.
"You havn't yet looked at the statements which I am prepared to lay before you." "I do know one thing," was the feeling answer, "and that is, that I am declining trouble and cost. About that part of the business, there can be little question." "Then," said Martin, his manner changing, "I am to understand that you do not wish to join me in this matter?" "Yes.
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