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Condiment, mum, you deserve to be ducked! Yes, mum, you do! Wool! Wool! you diabolical villain!" "Yes, marse, yes, sir, here I is!" exclaimed that officer, in trepidation, as he appeared in the doorway. "De windows and doors, sir, is all fastened close and de maids are all in the dining-room as you ordered, and " "Hang the maids and the doors and windows, too! Who the demon cares about them?

"I mean that, then, for your impudence! Don't answer me up again!" "No, mum," said Glory, in a low, strange tone; quite white now, except where the vindictive fingers had left their crimson streaks. And she went off out of the room without another word. Over the knife board she revolved her wrongs, and sharpened at length the keen edge of desperate resolution.

"Never," such was his language twenty-eight years after his disaster, "never give up or alter a tittle unless it perfectly coincides with your own inward feelings. I can say this to my sorrow and my cost. But mum!"

But the other voice replied, "Of course he's a perfumer, learned in smells! You'd better drop it, Bessie! you'll never make anything of it." "I'll never drop what the health and life of hundreds of my fellow- creatures depend on! I wish I could make you understand, Gussie!" "You'll never do anything with my governor, if that's your hope you should hear him and the mum talking!

"Not he," denied Standish. "That fool boy was so scared, he'd plunge into the brush or the water, the second he heard Rodney's step. Those conchs can keep as mum as Seminoles. He'd never let Rodney see him or hear him. He " Standish did not finish his sentence. Into his slow-moving brain, an idea dawned.

"Theer's them as looks at the dark side," returned Snac, "and them as looks at the bright. Niver say die till your time comes. I'll go and wake him up a bit, though he's no great hand at a bargain, and seems to find less contentment in gettin' on the blind side of a man than most on 'em. Good-mornin', mother; good-mornin', mum."

In New York, your Irish coachman grins approval of your order; and even an English flunkey may touch his hat and say, "Yes, Mum."

Before the first stroke had died away, Sandy Jim had loosed his plane and was reaching his jacket; Wiry Ben had left a screw half driven in, and thrown his screwdriver into his tool-basket; Mum Taft, who, true to his name, had kept silence throughout the previous conversation, had flung down his hammer as he was in the act of lifting it; and Seth, too, had straightened his back, and was putting out his hand towards his paper cap.

If you let on that it was you and not I that let the fire go out what I did to you then won't amount to anything to what I'll do to you. I'll kill you. Promise you'll keep mum." "I promise," gasped Meffia. "Go to bed!" Brinnaria hissed. Meffia went.

Leander did not perceive the very natural mistake into which the goddess had fallen; but the fact was, that she had come upon some of our justly renowned public statues. "I'm sorry you haven't enjoyed yourself, mum," was all he could find to say. "Should I linger in such scenes were it not for you?" she cried reproachfully. "How much longer will you repulse me?"