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"You ain't to repeat this night's performance! If you ain't got pride enough not to go hob-nobbin' with my enemies, I'll forbid it for good an' all forbid it, do you hear? I ain't a-goin' " Something in the quiet dignity of the girl before her arrested her tongue. Her eye traveled over the white, rain-drenched figure. Then the corners of her mouth twitched and curved upward.
Such had been the growth of Peterkin during the past nine years. 'He had got clean to the front, he said, 'and was hob-nobbin' with Squire Harrenton, and Judge St. Claire, and the Tracys, all of whom shrugged their shoulders and laughed at him in secret, but treated him civilly to his face, for, deny it as we may, money has a mighty power, and will open many a door which nothing else could move.
I'm bound to say that he managed to get some fruit to us, and with his own hands he loosened our bonds. If you'd seen him sitting up in that tree hob-nobbin' with his twin brother and singin' in that rollin' bass of his, 'Ring out, wild bells, cause music of any kind seemed to put 'em in a good humor, you'd have smiled; but we weren't in much mood for laughin', as you can guess.
'Is the colonel in the vicinity? Aunt Purdie demanded, recalling Macgregor's wondering gaze from the retreating figure. 'I couldna say. He's liker to be in a cauld bath. 'You have, of course, informed him who your uncle is? 'Me an' the colonel ha'ena done much hob-nobbin' as yet, Macgregor said, smiling. 'His mother used to obtain her groceries from your uncle.
"You try to pertend 'at you're nothin' short of a world power; but I bet you're just flim-flammin'." "Nothin' 'at Happy Hawkins'd do would surprise me," sez Jessamie. "Now that I've seen him in a dress suit, hob-nobbin' with the bun-tong, I'm prepared for anything." She was a good feller all right.
"On the other hand, when I'm hob-nobbin' with the upper class I keep them guessin'. I talk kinda crude, yet what I say seems to be worth listenin' to. I go into a flash hotel or cafe and never stumble over anything, or knock the carafe off the table, or order corned-beef hash when the menu card looks like an advanced lesson in parlez vous.
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