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Topper had clearly got his eye upon one of Scrooge's niece's sisters, for he answered that a bachelor was a wretched outcast, who had no right to express an opinion on the subject. Whereat Scrooge's niece's sister the plump one with the lace tucker, not the one with the roses blushed. "Do go on, Fred," said Scrooge's niece, clapping her hands. "He never finishes what he begins to say!
That stricken veteran sat alone amid the ruins of his toppled empire in the little office, slumped and torpid before the cold, rusty stove. He refused to be comforted by his devotee. He said he would never touch one of them things again, not for no man's money. The Darwinian hypothesis allows for no petty tact in the process of evolution. Starling Tucker was unfit to survive into the new age.
It was as though the whole earth had put on its best Sunday bib and tucker; and business was very bad for the Martin Hunt.
The piano belonged to the Tucker twins. Norma and Alice were "rushed" with partners, and they quite forgot their clothes in the enjoyment of dancing to irresistible music. Libbie had brought a book of poems for Timothy Derby, who solemnly loaned her one of his in exchange.
Happen thou's in more danger than I am." "What d'ye mean by that?" said Little, very sharply. But Simmons saw he had gone too far, and now maintained a sullen silence. Henry turned to Tucker. "I don't know who you are, but I call you witness that I have done all I can for this idiot. Now, if he comes to harm, his blood be upon his own head."
"Shan't be worse off than other women, even if that happens," said Rebecca Tucker, that was but a year married and more than half in love with her man. Sally had been in two minds about promoting Rebecca to the bow-oar in place of Ann Pengelly, that had been clipping the stroke short in practice: but after that speech she never gave the woman another thought.
And mebbe I'm that much of a habitooal lunatic, but thinking so, I calkilated you'd know it without tellin'." With their eyes fixed upon her, Mrs. Tucker felt the quick blood rush to her cheeks, although she knew not why.
There were a few, such as Josiah Tucker, who thought that the thing to do was to give up the colonies; in their opinion, colonies were in any case more of a burden than an advantage, the supposed advantages of colonies being bound up with restrictions on trade, and restrictions on trade being contrary to the natural law by which commerce should be free.
Nobody put him up to riggin' out in his best bib and tucker and sneakin' here the minute I was out of the house. No, nobody did! Of COURSE not!" "No, nobody did," said Keziah briskly. "And you may know what you're hintin' at, but I don't." "Dear me! Ain't we innocent! We've got plenty of money, WE have. Widowers with property ain't no attraction to US. Everybody knows that oh, yes!
He was glad when she transferred her gaze to the clock. She looked at it so long that he murmured something about going. "Good-by," she said. Mr. Tucker began to repeat his excuses, but she interrupted him. "Not now," she said, decidedly. "I'm tired. Good-night." Mr. Tucker pressed her hand. "Good-night," he said, tenderly. "I am afraid the excitement has been too much for you.
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