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Updated: May 28, 2025
All this time his housekeeper, Goody Blount, as he called her, in her lace cap and ruffles, as precise and starch as an old picture, stood behind his chair with pleased solemnity, directing, with unruffled composure, the movements of the liveried bumpkin who this day was promoted to the honour of 'waiting at table.
"No," cried the Colonel, and banged his fist down on the table. "Why," said he, thoughtfully, stroking the white goatee on his chin, "cuss me if that ain't from the speech that country bumpkin, Lincoln, made in June last before the Black Republican convention in Illinois." Virginia broke again into laughter. And Stephen was very near it, for he loved the Colonel.
Such a beau of beaux, no doubt he was annoyed that an insignificant little country bumpkin should not be flattered by his patronage, or probably he thought me rude or ill-humoured. Two mornings later uncle Jay-Jay took him to Gool-Gool EN ROUTE for Sydney.
I have breeding and culture everything and you're just a country bumpkin. And yet you presume to set your ideas up against mine! You presume to judge me, and tell me what I ought to do!" Samuel was taken aback by this. He could not think what to reply. "Don't you see?" went on Bertie, following up his advantage. "If you really believe what you say, you ought to submit yourself to me.
Indeed, the effect was almost comical when he lifted it and scratched his head and then rubbed his chin with it; it made him look part bumpkin and part sailor. He bore the scrutiny of the company very well, and presently bowed again to the governor as one who waited the expression of that officer's goodwill and pleasure.
He had come, of course, to invite the gentlemen to the funeral. That was the most natural supposition. "I have brought a letter for you, Mr. Bailiff," said Martin, nonchalantly; and, to the great disgust of the steward, he did not even doff his cap before Abellino, who was standing on the balcony. "Look to your cap, you bumpkin! Why don't you doff it, sirrah? Who sent this letter?"
For my part, I should have taken it as far less an insult to be styled "fellow," "clown," or "bumpkin." As the case stood, my temper darted at once to the opposite pole; not friend, but enemy! "What do you want with me?" said I, facing about. "Come a little nearer, friend," said the stranger, beckoning. "No," answered I. "If I can do anything for you without too much trouble to myself, say so.
Not that we may know the language of the people, for it is matter of daily observation, that of all the mysteries which perplex the humble mind of the country bumpkin in this land, causing him to scratch his well, not his head there is none which he gives up as hopeless sooner than the strange sounds addressed to him by the young saheb who has just passed his higher standard.
He assumed a more careless air, trying to look as like a country bumpkin in love as he could. "I would like to find out," he said, "but I don't know where to inquire. My sweetheart has certainly left her home," he added lightly; "some say that she has been false to me, but I think that, mayhap, she has been arrested."
He was short of stature, smooth-faced and looked like a good-natured country bumpkin in his peasant garb, all decorated with dust. He was modest, half-shy, and the nuns who peered at him from behind the arras as he walked down the hallway of the Convent caused his countenance to run the chromatic scale.
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