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The sight o' you, single-handed, meetin' and annihilatin' the pride of the Mexican navy, calm in th' moment o' despair, generous in victory and delicate as blazes to a fallen shipmate, goin' to work an' namin' your vessel after him that way, is somethin' that wipes away all sorrer and welds a friendship that's bound to endoor till death us do part.
I thought one time he'd kill us before we got him, but he didn't. How he did run that thing! He's a game sport. "'See here! says I. 'YOU and Hettie sold What do you mean by that? "'Mrs. Bassett is my backer in the auto business, says he. 'She put in her money and I furnished the experience. We've got a big plant up in namin' a city in Connecticut. "I fetched a long breath.
"Ah, we all paid up we did that, an' we'n been waitin' for thee to look in yonder at Orme's! We was all expectin' a bit of a do, thou knows an' thou's never so much as coom nigh th' place. An' thou settled to get wed an' all, wi'out namin' it to nobry! It's scarce honest." Ted scratched his jaw reflectively; the argument seemed to touch him.
Varney, my six-year-old kid c'd pick you right out o' that crowd out there, same as 't was her pa, what with seein' your picture in the papers an' all, an' I guess there ain't anything you'd ever want in Hunston you couldn't have just for the trouble o' namin' it." The random assertion struck some of the blood from the young man's cheek, but he said good-humoredly: "Well, I'm glad to hear it.
"Hush!" interrupted her ragged companion, with a look of terror. "What's the good o' namin' him, and allus talkin' about him, when yer don't never know as he ar'n't byside ye?" "I'll devil yer!" shrieked the crone, through a half-eaten tomato. "Finish mendin' up yer cover, yer mean cranberry-thief!"
'Twas awnly the thot like, but folks reckoned the saint 'ud take the will for the act, 'cause poor people couldn' give a saint nothin' worth namin'." Barren had heard of the votive offerings left by the faithful in past days at St. Madron's shrine, but felt somewhat surprised to find the practice dated back to a time so recent as Joan's infancy.
"He is so all an' yet the man have got his faults, speaking generally." "That's awnly to say he be a man; an' if you caan't find words for the faults, 't is clear they ban't worth namin'." "I can find words easy enough, I assure 'e; but a man's a fule to waste breath criticising the ways of a son to his mother if so be he's a gude son." "What fault theer is belongs to me.
Sonny rescued him from the old red rooster one day after he had nearly pecked him to death, an' he had him hoppin' round the kitchen for about a week with one eye bandaged up. When a hurted critter gits good an' strong he gen'ally turns it loose ag'in; but ef it stays puny, why he reg'lar 'dopts it an' names it Jones. That's thess a little notion o' his, namin' his pets the family name.
'Oh, well, I says, 'if you c'n be suited with namin' your family after rats 'n' mice I guess you c'n leave me out, I says, 'n' I kind o' backed off so 's to try 'n' set him a-goin', but he stood still, 'n' o' course no true Christian c'n shut her door in her minister's face even 'f she is stark crazy to get to cleanin' her garret.
Honest to grandma, I don't hardly know what kinda reptyle y'are. I hate to insult any of 'em, by cripes, by namin' yuh after 'em. But don't, for Lordy's sake, ever call yourself a man agin!"
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