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The chief character is Morose, a rich old codger whose humor is a horror of noise. He lives in a street so narrow that it will admit no carriages; he pads the doors; plugs the keyhole; puts mattresses on the stairs.
He wondered whether he had really spoken. The next time he noticed anything of the sort he really did talk. "Why don't you jump, you bloody fool?" he was saying. "Jump!" It was a funny English story he was telling to a company of actors. Even as his voice recalled him, he was smiling. A crusty old codger, sitting near by, seemed disturbed; at least, he stared in a most pointed way.
"But where are you going?" she asked him gently. "And why do you never let me go with you, dear?" "You?" he chuckled. "Waste time driving out nowheres with an old codger like me? I didn't give you all that schooling to have you throw your life away doing things like that. Don't you bother about me, Marianne. I'm just going to drift over yonder around Jackson Peak. You see?"
Ethelyn had asked, and Frank had answered, "Looks well enough, though anybody with half an eye would know he was a codger from the West. His pants are a great deal too short; and look at his coat at least three years behind the fashion; and such a hat, with that rusty old band of crape around it. Wonder if he is in mourning for his grandmother. Oh, my! we boys would hoot him in Boston.
"Oh, yes," said Mitchell, "and any ratty old shepherd or sundowner, that's gone mad of heat and loneliness like the old codger we met back yonder he could sit by the lagoon in the cool of the evening and fish to his heart's content with a string and a bent pin, and dream he's playing truant from school and fishing in the brook near his native village in England about fifty years ago.
That's a good time ago, I dare say, said my uncle, looking on him reflectively. 'Well, so it is, not far off fifty years, answered he. 'He was a hard-headed codger, he was; but you see the sprig of shillelagh was too hard for him ha, ha, ha! and he gave the skull a smart knock with his walking-cane, as he grinned at it and wagged his head.
With it, he can travel faster than the swiftest race horse, and when hunted by the native red men, he throws it over his neck, and smiles urbanely upon his baffled pursuers." Swanson roared with delight as the Doctor rolled this off his tongue, and slapping him on the back, cried: "You're the same old codger. Haven't changed an inch in seven years.
Abused, ignored, his childish aspirations trampled on, the name and glory of his father made sport of; worried as cruel children worry a puppy; tantalized; hoping against hope that this night or the next his father would dash in at the head of the Old Guard and take him back to Paris. A plaything for Metternich! Who can gaze upon these little toys without a thrill of pity? "Poor little codger!"
"Lewis Lewis," said Grant thoughtfully. He referred for a moment to a file of papers and then looked up. "Is that the old codger who's been worrying my entire staff for permission to go through our lines to his home?" "Yes, General," said Harris, with a smile, for Unc' Billy's persistency and his troubles were known to everyone he met. "Good!
The result gave general satisfaction, although there were those who found fault with the court's moderation, and complained that the least possible cognizance had been taken of the offence. "Ho! ho! ho!" laughed an old codger in the street.
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