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"We have heard that the cause of this desperate duel was a blow which the chevalier ventured to give to the Hon. Mr. D. If so, there is some reason for the unusual and determined manner in which the duel was fought. "Mr. Deu a-e returned to his hotel; whither his excellent father, the Right Hon.
"I have come," she said, "to invite you all to a rag bee, every one on ye men folks and all, because they can cut and wind and be agreeable, and hand round cups and sarcers and things to eat, if they can't deu nothin' else; so now you must all come and bring your thimbles and scissors and big needles, and, ef you've no objections, I'll jest take the tea-kittle now, as I'm goin' straight home."
"Good-morning, William," he said, "and a happy Christmas, and I hope it's not too much to ask of you that on this relation-infested day one's feelings may be harrowed by you as little as possible. And why the deu dickens they think it necessary to wash the hall floor before breakfast, Heaven only knows!" William coughed, a cough meant to be a polite mixture of greeting and deference.
It was Allard who revived the etiquette of going to battle dressed as sprucely as for a wedding. We shall do well to recollect the symbolic value which the glove holds in legends of medieval prowess. When the dying Roland, under the pine-trees, turns to the frontier of Spain, he offers, as a dying soldier, his glove to God "Pur ses pecchiez deu puroftrid son guant." Allard-Méeus at St.
The tow hair stood up in wild dismay, and the blue eyes were perfect saucepans, as Kate gently forced the money into the big palm. "Wall, I vum, miss, I feel like I was a-robbing you, but ef yeou deu want I should take it, why I will, and send it to my old mother, who will find plenty o' use for it. Good-by, miss. Ef you should want me again, I'm at the hospital.
"He has tuk himself off out o" town." "Where to?" "I can't tell you where teu he ain't coming back, 'tain't likely." "How do you know?" "'Cause he's tuk all his traps and went, and he said farming didn't pay and he wa'n't a going to have nothin' more to deu with it; he telled Mis' Simpson so he lived to Mis' Simpson's; and she telled Mr. Ten Eyck." "Are you sure, Philetus?"
"Well, 'twon't deu no harm, as I know," said the young man, making a virtue of necessity, for the fingers of Constance were already hovering over the dainty little leaf-strewn baskets, and her eyes complacently searching for the most promising; "I ha'n't got nothin' to deu with 'ern." "Constance!" said Mrs. Evelyn, from the piazza, "don't take that. I dare say they are for Mr. Sweet."
Not that the Greek got rid of his gods far from it! but he made them so like himself, and lived on terms of such familiarity with them that they inspired no terror. "They made deities in their own image, in the likeness of an image of corruptible man. Sua cuique deu fit dira cupido.
"Well, if you was, I guess you heerd how the minister told us to be good to one another to be neighborly, and help folks along. Now I guess as how I told you once that I shouldn't neither borry nor lend. Now I ain't tew old to larn and mend my ways, and I mean to deu as the parson says, and lend and borry all the days of my life; so maybe you'll lend me that ere kittle."
"Deu tell! What is that?" "He is my guardian." "Why, he is a young man for that. I thought they got elderly men." "My father held the same relation to him." She was some time taking in the idea, but she said at last, "Oh, I see." I took a book from my satchel and began reading; but she did not long permit me to enjoy it; her next remark, however, riveted my attention.
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