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Sowerberry emerged from a little room behind the shop, and presented the form of a short, then, squeezed-up woman, with a vixenish countenance. 'My dear, said Mr. Sowerberry, deferentially, 'this is the boy from the workhouse that I told you of. Oliver bowed again. 'Dear me! said the undertaker's wife, 'he's very small. 'Why, he is rather small, replied Mr.
'By the bye observed the Carrier. 'That old gentleman Again so visibly, and instantly embarrassed! 'He's an odd fish, said the Carrier, looking straight along the road before them. 'I can't make him out. I don't believe there's any harm in him. 'None at all. I'm I'm sure there's none at all.
What possible business can a man like that have with you, that I can't know about?" "Why do you say 'a man like that'? He's all right." "All right is a vague term. He's not one of our sort." "Don't be a snob! Remember you were born and brought up in the West, just as much as I was. And although you've now got to living high and mighty, you needn't look down on me or my friends!"
We all made a frightful mistake, they say, in daring to arrest and persecute this most distinguished and honorable citizen. Ha, ha!" he concluded bitterly as he lighted another cigarette. "C'est épatant!" exclaimed Tignol. "He must be a rich devil!" "He's rich and much more." "Whe-ew! He must be a senator or or something like that?" "Much more," said Coquenil grimly. "More than a senator?
"Will you have the goodness, madam, to inform me where I am?" "Thar, thar, Ella, child!" exclaimed the matron, joyously; "I told ye so I know'd it he's come to, for sartin the Lord be praised!" Then addressing herself to Reynolds, she continued: "Whar are you, stranger, do you ax?
Later in the morning she saw Uncle Jepson waving a hand to her from the corral, and she ran down there, to find her pony standing outside the fence, meek and docile. The bridle rein, knotted and broken, dangled in the dust at his head. She took up the end with the knot in it. "He's been tied!" she exclaimed. She showed Uncle Jepson the slip knot.
I will say for this yere Captain, that while I ain't with him plumb through, he's as game a sport as ever fought up hill. He's the sort which fights an goes for'ard to his man at the same time. Thar's no white feathers on that kind; they's game as badgers. An' bad.
"I've told Tim time and time again right to his face that the Lord would settle with him some day. 'Tim, said I, and it was not later than last fall that I said it, 'Tim, the Lord has been good to you. He's blessed you in every way. You've health, strength, and a good home. And what have you done for Him? What have you given in return? Nothing.
You've done the biggest thing of all by NEEDIN' him." "Needing him!" "Yes. Keith Burton, look at your father now. An' that he used to run from anything an' everything that was unpropitious an' disagreeable, like he was bein' chased. Well, then you was took blind. An' what happened? "You know what happened. He came right up an' toed the mark like a man an' a gentleman. An' he's toed it ever since.
He niver felt so well in his life. 'All right, I'll be over as soon as I can hitch up th' horse. Take him away fr'm th' supper table at wanst, give him a pipeful iv tobacco an' walk him three times around th' block. "But whin a man's sick, he's sick an' nawthin' will cure him or annything will. In th' old days befure ye an' I were born, th' doctor was th' barber too.
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