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This invariably sets the audience rocking with uncontrollable merriment. Howsomever, I am not writing a critique of the merits of the performance. If I were I shou1d say that to begin with the title of the piece was wrong. It should have been called Lapsus Lingerie signifying as the Latins would say, "A Mere Slip." At this moment I am concerned with what happened upon our entrance.
Howsomever they did hev words risin’ out o’ the colonel addressing your nephew under the title o’ ‘Frenchy’; which most takes ez a insufficient cause for rilin’.” “He’s dead?” gasped Thérèse, looking at the dispassionate Texan with horrified eyes.
I had no more idee what kind of land we were runnin' into than Percival himself; howsomever, one country's a great deal like another, after all. But I gave him the history as we journeyed oh, sure! Hadn't he come out for pleasure?
"A nice, decent fellow was Kyle. Nothing remarkable, you could say, and that was one of his best points. Howsomever, he had a head that could do plain thinking, a pair of shoulders that discouraged frivoling, and he was as square a piece of furniture as ever came out of a factory.
She returns good for evil she always loved you; see how she rubs herself against you and that's the reason why I selected you from the whole village, to take care of her; but you at once injure yourself and refuse to do your friend a service. Howsomever, you know I shall be with young Squire, and he'll be master here one of these days, and I shall have an influence over him you'll see you'll see.
"Then he wasn't the man whose wagon and one horse was burned?" queried Frances. "Don't know. Mebbe. But that's no difference. This old punt has been hid down there below the ford since last duck-shooting season. Maybe he knowed 'twas there; maybe he didn't. Howsomever, he found the boat and brought it up to the ford. Into the boat he tumbled the chest. There was the marks on the bank.
"What fools them boys be!" thought he, very discontentedly; "howsomever, the man does seem like a decent country gentleman, and we are two to one: besides, he's old, little, and augh, baugh I dare say, we are safe enough, for all he can do." The Stranger possessed a polished and well-bred demeanour; he talked freely and copiously, and his conversation was that of a shrewd and cultivated man.
Howsomever, I reckon, we hadn't better let up none on th' caution bus'ness But, let us forgit them skunks an' turn our minds tew more pleasant things, like a song from th' Leetle Woman," and he turned to Mrs. Dickson. "I jest sorter feel hungry for music tonight. Please sing 'Old Dan Tucker, an' Th' Emergrants Lament' an' " "'Ben Bolt," laughed Thure. "Shore," grinned Ham.
"For God's sake," said Jeanie to a man who stood beside them, "keep her off! she is mad." "Ey, ey," answered the boor; "I hae some guess of that, and I trow thou be'st a bird of the same feather. Howsomever, Madge, I redd thee keep hand off her, or I'se lend thee a whisterpoop."
There's one thing certain, howsomever, which is that jest now an hundred of our people could walk through the entire encampment without bein' called upon to spill a drop of blood." "Well?" I asked again, as the old man ceased speaking. "Colonel Gansevoort must know how mixed up is this 'ere army." "We can go back an' tell him," Jacob replied, promptly.
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