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'And if I wasn't a rich man, and didn't give a big order, they wouldn't care a twopenny damn for me. 'Molly mightn't unless by chance you were taken up in high quarters and made the fashion like Cecil Rhodes and "Doctor Jim," or some new edition of Buffalo Bill. Then she'd call you "one of nature's uncrowned kings."
I shall tell your aunt afterwards, but she mightn't like it, you know, and it would be a little unpleasant." "But I don't like to take your watch, uncle," I said, glad as I should have been to have it, for it seemed too bad to take it away. "Quite right, Nat," said Uncle Dick; "don't take it." "Not take it!" said Uncle Joe in a disappointed tone. "No; he does not want a watch, Joe.
"I'm very much interested, ma'am," said the skipper defiantly; "besides, when I'm looking for poor Jackson, who knows I mightn't run up against the other." "Ah! who knows but what you might," said the old woman. "There's one gentleman looking for him now Mr. Glover, my daughter's husband that is to be."
"Are you sure it was Joe Angell?" he demanded. "My God! Of course it was!" said Peter. "I couldn't have been mistaken." But he let his voice die away, and a note of bewilderment be heard in it. "You say he was whispering?" "Yes, he was whispering." "But mightn't it have been somebody else?" "Why, I don't know what to say," said Peter.
I wanted to make myself different, so that if any of the people who saw me when I was down, came across me again, they mightn't be sure it was I they might think it was just a resemblance to another woman. I took the name of Gaunt instead of Grant, because it was so nearly the same, it might seem to have been a very simple mistake, if any complication came.
They're neighbors, Miss' Brown wrote, and their mother wanted to go to the Springs, or somewhere, so she asked mightn't they come, too. At first, I thought I couldn't hardly manage with so many, but they haven't been a bit of trouble. Just set them anywheres down on the shore, and they'll dig all day and be as happy as clams. The only bad things is boots.
"Nothing on earth. Oh, I don't say that if somebody had an axe handy and chopped your arm off at the shoulder an instant after you were struck on the hand, you mightn't have a chance to live; but it would take mighty quick work, and even then, it would be nip and tuck. Freylinghuisen thinks it is a new discovery. I don't. I think some one has dug up one of the old Medici formulae.
Give me my breakfast, please, Alice; and oh, Nurse, mightn't baby sit between us for a little in bed?" "You must support her back well with pillows," said Nurse. "And see as you don't spill any coffee on her white dress. Eh! then, isn't she the sweetest and prettiest lamb in all the world?"
He hastily plunged his hand in the outer pocket of his coat, and then dropped the bottle back in its place still more hastily, after another glance at the priest. "Well, I thought you might like it," he said with a touch of defiance, feeling it necessary to assert himself. "When a man's face is as red as yours, I don't see why a fellow mightn't ask him to take a drink."
'There! you see we are quarrelling already; I did wrong to come home. 'It was not to please me that you came home. You were afraid if you didn't you mightn't find another tenant for the Beeding farm. You were afraid you might have it on your hands. It was self-interest that brought you home. Don't try to make me believe it wasn't. Then the conversation drifted into angry discussion.
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