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"The devil take that wench!" "What wench?" Crosby asked. "Give me something to drink and a mouthful of food. The story may be told in a few words, and then we must get to Dorchester." "Martin! Why? Surely she " "Yes; she will be there within an hour or so. That is why we go to Dorchester to-night."
She had a poor chance for marrying, down in the world as they were. And he hated the thought of her marrying poorly, as her aunt Gritty had done; that would be a thing to make him turn in his grave, the little wench so pulled down by children and toil, as her aunt Moss was.
"Silly wench," said I, "this steel is not for you! Call in your rogues and watch me blood a few " "Ah, damned coward," she cried, "ye dare not slay me lest Belvedere torment ye to death 'tis your own vile carcase you do think of!"
You will soon have no one to look after but yourself!" and just as she whispered the last sentence into my ear, Mansfield came up to me, and with an oath, said, "Leave here this instant; you have been the means of my losing one hundred dollars to get this wench back," at the same time kicking me with a heavy pair of boots. As I left her, she gave one shriek, saying, "God be with you!"
The pert vivacity of La Fille at Montreuil was all we could find there worth remarking: it filled up my notions of French flippancy agreeably enough; as no English wench would so have answered one to be sure. She had complained of our avant-coureur's behaviour. "Il parle sur le bant ton, mademoiselle" (said I), "mais il
"Well, then, the signor you love not-seated at this table, and dict to me just what you would say to him." "Well, if he sat there, I should say, 'Go away." Gerard, who was flourishing his pen by way of preparation, laid it down with a groan. "And when he was gone," said Floretta, "your highness would say, 'Come back." "Like enough, wench. Now silence, all, and let me think.
I can be the major domo in the house, the tidy wench in the kitchen, and the lady in the drawing room: in fact, I know how to command and make myself obeyed. I squander nothing and accumulate a great deal; my coin goes all the further for being spent under my own directions.
You cannot hide from them your gains and your gold as formerly." "My gains, wench? my gold?" said the usurer; "alack-a-day, few of these and hard got few and hard got." "This will not serve you, father, any longer," said she, "and had not served you thus long, but that Bully Colepepper had contrived a cheaper way of plundering your house, even by means of my miserable self.
Remember who gave it you, and made it what it is! She was startled by hearing Nicholas speak behind her; he had come in without her noticing him. 'Now, I'll not have my wench preached to. She's bad enough as it is, with her dreams and her methodee fancies, and her visions of cities with goulden gates and precious stones.
My watch, see an' I've money i' th' box a' whoam I'll gi'e you everythin'. Eh, do run down wi' me now, else it'll be too late." "I want noan o' your brass an' stuff," cried Sally violently. "He's nought to me let him drown if he can't save hissel'. He's yourn an' not mine. Ye'd best see to him." "Eh, you wicked, wicked wench!" sobbed Jinny.
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