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It's better to marry a man with sense, nor to go takin' up with some young whipper-snapper that would be thinkin' of nothin' but spendin' money and carryin' on with nonsense." "He's an ould widower," cried Roseen, wrinkling up her little nose with an expression of disgust. "Well," said Peter, "an' a good thing too; you'll come in for all the beautiful dresses and jewels and things the first Mrs.
But here there was interposed a new element, one he had not counted on. David was fiercely jealous of his practice; the thought that it might pass into new and alien hands was bitter to him. To hand it down to his adopted son was one thing; to pass it over to "some young whipper-snapper" was another. Nor were David's motives selfish or unworthy. His patients were his friends.
"By no means," he rejoined, "by no means, cousin mine; but you've no idea what a comical face such a whipper-snapper as you cuts, and how ludicrously he acts as well, when Providence for once in a while honours him by putting him in the way to meet with something out of the usual run of things. I once had a college friend who was a quiet, sober fellow, and always on good terms with himself.
"My niece marry a whipper-snapper like that Mr. Gale, indeed! Tell me!" I had not the hardihood to correct her again, and so we parted. Wednesday was only the day after to-morrow, but in the interim I bought a copy of Mr.
The other giants were too frightened to speak or move, for they were quite certain there was magic being used against them, for strength alone could never have overthrown their 'Cap'en' like that, certainly not the strength of 'a little whipper-snapper like that there Corinoos.
Shuffles's jaw dropped down, and his lip quivered with angry emotion. "That little whipper-snapper of a Kendall did that," said Wilton, in a low tone, to the disappointed candidate. "I was afraid of this when I saw him blowing about the deck."
That is, he owns a bond and lease on the property, with the option of buying for fifty thousand dollars. And then besides that, I regret to say, he has an option on all my stock." "Oh! Yes!" scoffed the Widow. "You've been cleaned by this whipper-snapper that's just a few months out of college!
"I am a teacher at the school." "You don't say so?" said the doctor, with surprise. "So young and already a teacher?" "Young, indeed! My goodness, I'm twenty-six! "You have a beard and moustache, but yet one would never guess you were more than twenty-two or twenty-three. How young-looking you are!" "What a beast!" thought Nikitin. "He, too, takes me for a whipper-snapper!"
Like master, like man, thought I to myself; and thereupon, taking heart no to be put out, I replied to the whipper-snapper 'I'm Bailie M'Lucre o' Gudetown, and maun hae a word wi' his honour.
There is that old beggar Poiret, who goes without blacking altogether; he would sooner drink it than put it on his boots. Then there is that whipper-snapper of a student, who gives me a couple of francs. Two francs will not pay for my brushes, and he sells his old clothes, and gets more for them than they are worth. Oh! they're a shabby lot!"
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