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"Oh, I forgot your patient," said he, with a twitching mouth. "But, for God's sake, don't keep me waiting long!" I shook my head in answer; then ran, rather than walked, up the Marburys' steps; indeed, that night taught me how active a corpulent old codger can be if the need comes. Miss Peters evidently had been at the window in her night vigil, watching the storm; she opened the door.
One might as soon try to fake the old VICTORY at Portsmouth into a line of battleship again. Besides which the old Academic mind, like those old bathless, damp Gothic colleges, is much too delightful in its peculiar and distinctive way to damage by futile patching. My heart warms to a sense of affectionate absurdity as I recall dear old Codger, surely the most "unleaderly" of men.
They said he died writing a telegram to our Lord on the wall of his room. This Dave Cowan, he argued about religion with the Reverend Mallet right up in the post office one day. He'll argue about anything! He's audacious!" "But the father was all right till he had the fall?" asked Harvey D. "I mean he was healthy and all that?" "Oh, healthy enough big, strong old codger.
Do you b'lieve you could be happy with me always if you married me, I mean?" Mrs. Snow turned and looked at him. There were tears in her eyes, but she did not wipe them away. "Yes," she said. "Think now, Marthy. I ain't very young, and I ain't very rich." "What am I?" with a little smile. "And you really think you could be happy if you was the wife of an old codger like me?" "Yes."
"No because, that be Jacob's nature; so you see one nature conquered the other, and that's the whole long and short of it." "Well, now, suppose we sit down and make ourselves comfortable," observed Stapleton; "but here be somebody else coming up who can it be?" "I say, old codger, considering you be as deaf as a post, you hears pretty well," said old Tom.
Mail-Order Petrie is a miserly old codger who buys everything out of town that he can buy a penny cheaper than the home merchants sell it. He is a hard-working man, so far as that goes, and so stingy that he has been accused of going barefooted in the summer time to save shoes.
"I'd rather have one of those medals," he said, "than anything in the world and I want a wireless outfit pretty bad, too. Maybe we couldn't use it all this season, but look, I can hit that thin tree every time but I'm thinking of the little codger mostly; you know the one I mean with the light hair?" "The little fellow that coughs?" "He doesn't cough any more. He did before we came up here.
Bedad now, they were comical to behould, goodness forgive her for sayin' so, all bawlin' and flounderin' about like a flock of sheep stuck in a bog, on'y it was a white bog and black sheep, as she minded Tom Ennis, that was a quare codger, sayin' at the time." And this again started old O'Beirne upon reminiscences of remarkable buryings which had come under his own observation.
"Yes, and if you'd ever seen him, you wouldn't blame Zara for being ready to run away before she went with him. He's the meanest old codger you ever saw. But he had a big pull in that region, because he held mortgages on about all the farms, and he could do about as he liked." "Well, I don't see why they didn't have a perfect right to run away," said Trenwith, "legally and morally.
When she removed her outer wraps it was seen that she was not only young but, in Ore City's eyes, overpoweringly good-looking. Was she married? Every question paled beside this one. Surely they looked at Uncle Bill contemptuously even if he had struck something she would not marry that old codger.
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