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"I was talkin' in the abstrac', an' not in the concrete. My teachin's educated them." "What a horse, specially a young horse, hears in the abstrac', he's liable to do in the Concord. You was handled late, I presoom." "Four, risin' five." "That's where the trouble began. Driv' by a woman, like ez not eh?" "Not fer long," said the yellow horse, with a snap of his teeth. "Spilled her?"
He looked at the footing of it. Then he looked at the items. Then he looked at Silas Peckham. At this moment Silas was sublime. He was so transcendency unconscious of the emotions going on in Mr. Bernard's mind at the moment, that he had only a single thought. "The accaount's correc'ly cast, I presoom; if the' 's any mistake of figgers or addin' 'em up, it'll be made all right.
He bowed with a great flourish of politeness, spat copiously in the fire, and bade the count good-day in a thin and shrill-pitched voice, so out of keeping with his monstrous size that I had to cough and turn away to disguise a laugh. "My respects, count," said Mr. Quorn, "my respects and compliments. I presoom, sir, you have heard the noos from the European Continent."
At all events there will be no harm in making your preparations; the captain is pretty certain to take you." Still on my bare feet, I hurried forward and found the boatswain. "That you, Mr Futtock?" I inquired, as I made out his burly form. "Ay, ay, Mr Fortescue, it's me, right enough," was the answer. "I presoom, sir, it's another boat job, eh? You heard that bell?"
Brimberly ponderously, "what ''e' might you be pleased to mean?" "I was merely allooding to to your governor, sir." Mr. Brimberly glanced at his guest, set down the glass he was in the act of filling and pulled down his waistcoat for the second time. "Sir," said he, and his cherubic whiskers seemed positively to quiver, "I presoom I say, I presoom you are referring to Young Har?" "I meant Mr.
She's a-bringin' him up first rate, and you tell her that I think so. It will encourage her. "And how is your Ma?" sez I; and then I kinder backed out polite from that subject, and sez I, "I dare presoom to say that she has her good qualities; and mebby, like all the rest of the world, she has her drawbacks."
Bancroft, and other congenial and descriptive minds, and surrounded with the gorgeous picters of that old time. I wuz back, I should presoom to say, as much, if not more, than four hundred years, when all to once I was recalled by my companion. "Dum it, I didn't know they charged folks for goin' to meetin'!" "Hush!" sez I; "this is not a meetin'-house, this is a palace; be calm!"
He lugged out his large pocket-book with the strap going all round it, and took from it a slip of paper which confirmed his statement. "Besides," he added, slyly, "I presoom you have received a liberal pecooniary compensation from Squire Venner for nussin' his daughter." Helen was looking over the bill while he was speaking. "Board and lodging for ten days, Mr.
It is a old custom, comin' from so fur back that nobody knows what monarch it wuz and whose feet they wuz, and whether they needed washin' or not. But I presoom they wuz middlin' clean; they be now anyway, and the Emperor doesn't do it for bathin' purposes or to help corns, but it is a religious custom. Robert explained it all out to me so plain that I almost seemed to see it myself.
The man kep' on bowin' and smilin' and I told Josiah, "I presoom he thinks you're praisin' him; he acts as if he did." And Josiah stopped talkin' in a minute. But howsumever he wouldn't take the handkerchief. Miss Meechim and I and I spoze that Robert Strong wuz to the bottom of it but 'tennyrate, we wuz invited to a harem to see a princess, wife of a pasha.
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