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Although your dinner is the best one I have seen for many a long day, or am likely to see, yet, to tell you the truth, I could swear over it easier than I could pray over it." "A-a-h! that's the right spirit; that's the way I ought to feel. Now you see what a mean hypocrite I am. I'm no Christian far from it and yet I always have a sneakin' wish to say grace over my victuals.
"This is my will," he said, "made some seven weeks ago. If you will stay with me I will destroy it." "Really, Mr. Sloane," I said, "if you think my purpose is to exert any pressure upon your testamentary inclinations " "I will tear it in pieces," he cried; "I will burn it up! I shall be as sick as a dog to-morrow; but I will do it. A-a-h!"
"What you doin'?" asked Maurice for the third time, Sam Williams not having decided upon a reply. It was Penrod who answered. "Drinkin' lickrish water," he said simply, and wiped his mouth with such delicious enjoyment that Sam's jaded thirst was instantly stimulated. He took the bottle eagerly from Penrod. "A-a-h!" exclaimed Penrod, smacking his lips. "That was a good un!"
I'd spite myself; I'd spite the devil; I'd beat the world; I'd just grit my teeth, and go fur myself and everything else that stood in my way, and I'd whip 'em all out, or I'd die a-fightin'. But I've got so old and rheumatic that all I can do is cuss. A-a-h!" "I will take your advice I will fight it out," exclaimed the excitable youth with an oath.
"Ah-ah! the sound of a passionate kiss. . . . Who is it you're kissing out there, little Marfa?" came a voice from the next room, and in the doorway there appeared the cropped head of the assistant usher, Vankin. "Who is it? A-a-h! . . . Delighted to meet you! Sergei Kapitonich! You're a fine grandfather, I must say! Tête-
Some time ago I had a ham that I couldn't and wouldn't eat, and they wouldn't take it back at the store, so I got some of the Lord's poor brethren to come to dinner, and I palmed it off on them. But I had to cuss myself the whole evenin' to pay up for it! A-a-h!"
A-a-h!" and then he went on, and disappeared in the house, from the open door of which not long after came the savory odor of coffee.
An' from that toime on till he wint down undher th' logs we wuz loike two brothers ondly more so." "Pretty good man, was he?" "A-a-h, there wuz a man!" Fallon's big fist banged noisily upon the table, and his blue eyes lighted as he faced his employer. "Misther Appleton, ye losht a man phwin th' greener wint undher.
Then he would rub his rheumatic legs despondently and add, "But my speretual j'ints have got as stiff and dry as these old walkin' pins; and when I try to git up some good sort o' feelin' it's like pumpin' of a dry pump. I only feel real hearty when I'm a cussin'. A-a-h!"
Majestically Othello was striding down to the door, where Emilia was knocking for admittance, when there came that long in-drawn breath that "a-a-h!" that from the auditorium always means mischief and a sudden bobbing of heads this way and that in the front seats. In an instant the great actor felt the broken spell, knew he had lost his hold upon the people but why?
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