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Yet, as gluttons are often thin, so sober men are often rubicund; and Mr. Bates was sober, with that manly, British, churchman-like sobriety which can carry a few glasses of grog without any perceptible clarification of ideas. 'Dang my boottons! observed Mr. Bates, who, at the conclusion of Mrs.
Dang my boottons! she looks faine and handsome o' hossback sits as upraight as a dart, wi' a figure like a statty! Misthress Sharp has promised to put me behaind one o' the doors when the ladies are comin' doon to dinner, so as I may sae the young un i' full dress, wi' all her curls an' that.
Bates's hair was now grey, but his frame was none the less stalwart, and his face looked all the redder, making an artistic contrast with the deep blue of his cotton neckerchief, and of his linen apron twisted into a girdle round his waist. 'Why, dang my boottons, Miss Tiny, he exclaimed, 'hoo coom ye to coom oot dabblin' your faet laike a little Muscovy duck, sich a day as this?
He was inspecting us and when he came to Peter he shouted, 'Why haven't you cleaned your boottons? Peter answered with a perfectly solemn countenance, 'I omitted to do so, sir. The S.M. glared at him, but he wasn't quite sure about the meaning of the word 'omitted, and being afraid of making a fool of himself he passed on.
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