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Job colored, and replied that it was not his money, and he only took his pay like the men. "Mighty good yet, ain't yer, Job; playin' the pious dodge still. Thought perhaps the way that schoolma'am jilted yer would take the big-head out of yer. Well, I don't make any pretense of bein' pious; don't need to, as I can see get all I want without it.
They set up codes that it takes lawyers to interpret, and so they perpetuate themselves. I don't mean to say you're extraordinary in having a chance to wander. Don't get the big-head over it. You're a pretty average young American. There's plenty of the same kind. Only, mostly they get tied up to something before they see what a big world there is to hike in, and I want to keep you from that.
"Big-head" was Mr. Bradlaugh. The description was facetious but by no means uncomplimentary. Our meals had been ordered in from "over the way," and I might expect some refreshment shortly. While he was speaking it was brought up. He then left me, and I devoured the coffee and toast with great avidity.
Did she, within her, hide some of that still passion of which her daughter was all-compact? "That last summer at home wasn't very nice for her," Mrs. Kronborg began as placidly as if the fire had never leaped up in her. "The other children were acting-up because they thought I might make a fuss over her and give her the big-head.
Kaiber threatened to run away, but the coward was, in fact, afraid to move five yards from the party, so, sitting down on his haunches under cover, he kept muttering to himself various terms of Australian scorn, "The swan the big-head the stone forehead!" while the Captain advanced towards the strangers, who no sooner heard the gun, and saw him approaching, than they came running to him.
"That fellow's getting the big-head." Hal made no reply. He had dropped into a chair and now sat with his head between his hands. When he raised his face it was haggard as if with famine. "Dad, I'm going away." "Where?" demanded his father, startled. "Anywhere, away from this house." "No wonder you're shaken, Boyee," said the other soothingly. "We'll talk about it in the morning.
She's got a notion, kase you's rich yer's got stuck up, you an' Lugena. But I tole her, sez I, 'Nimbus ain't dat ar sort of a chile, Nimbus hain't. He's been a heap luckier nor de rest of us, but he ain't got de big-head, nary bit. Dat's what I say, an' durn me ef I don't b'lieve it too, I does. We's been hevin' purty hard times, Sally an' me hez.
I know I'm coarse and irreverent and wilful and surly and healthy, and have got the big-head and the Lord knows what! But I swear I'll stop everything bad and be everything good if you'll just quit off sniv weeping!" Strange to say, this reasonable and practicable proposition did not calm either of them. "I'll even go with you to Jeff-Jack and ask his advice oh! Jane-Anne-Maria! now what's broke?"
And, if you'd believe her, there's not a man in the audience, afternoon or evening, that isn't dead-gone on her. "Guess who's my latest," she said to me this afternoon, while we four Charities stood in the wings waiting. "Topham old Topham!" It all got clear to me then in a minute. "Topham nothing!" I sneered. "Beryl Big-head, Topham thinks of only one thing Milady's jewel-box.
He is a fair representative of the class-consciousness, class-hatred type. Again he is represented by the theorist constitutionally and chronically too lazy to do honest and constructive work either physically or mentally. Again by the one who has the big-head affliction.
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