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An' me livin' on an' kapin' clear av clink, not by my own good conduck, but the kindness av some orf'cer-bhoy young enough to be son to me! Do I not know ut? Can I not tell whin I'm passed over at p'rade, tho' I'm rockin' full av liquor an' ready to fall all in wan piece, such as even a suckin' child might see, bekaze, "Oh, 'tis only ould Mulvaney!"
Ah! he have done his work well, and aimed a good conduck fourpence-halfpenny a day, so long as ever he shall live hereafter." "In this world you mean, I suppose, my friend; but be not overcome; such things will happen. But what did you do with all that money, Joseph?" "We never wasted none of it, not half a groat, Sir.
Perfesser Finny gazed for hours at my Kangaroo, but when that sagashus but onprincipled little cuss set up one of his onarthly yellins and I proceeded to hosswhip him, the Perfesser objected. "Suffer not your angry pashums to rise up at the poor annimil's little excentrissities," said the Perfesser. "Do you call such conduck as THOSE a little excentrissity?" I axed.
One of them was a brave warner, and kep HIS cup; they strangled the other chap strangled him, and laffed at him too. With respeck, then, to the barnetcy pint, this is my advice: brazen it out. Us littery men I take to be like a pack of schoolboys childish, greedy, envius, holding by our friends, and always ready to fight. What must be a man's conduck among such?
There was a pretty row. "Look here, sir," says she, "at the conduck of your precious trull of a daughter alone with this man, kissin and dandlin, and Lawd knows what besides." "What, he?" cries Miss Betsy "he in love with Mary.
A feller named Mentano undertakes to slap Cassio, when that infatooated person runs his sword into him. That miserble man, Iago, pretends to be very sorry to see Mike conduck hisself in this way & undertakes to smooth the thing over to Otheller, who rushes in with a drawn sword & wants to know what's up.
De cook she dun leff, an' I's cookin' ontwill yer grandmar git somebody. Ef you don' belieb me, ax yer mar. Ennyhow, I's gwine to 'quaint yer mar with yer conduck, axin' so many perterment questions." "But, who are the birds for?" persisted Nelly. "I know mamma never eats birds, and grandmamma isn't sick." "I 'clar, Miss Nelly, I's outdone wid you. Go outer heah, 'fore I calls yer grandmar."
"Oh, you good, good boy! . . . Yes, dear lads," went on Link Andrew, in a mimicking voice, "it is indeed the meet-your-flag of our 'oly Motherland, and 'Erbert 'Enery Bates, our Good Conduck Medallist, will now oblige by going down on his knees and kissing it. Else I'll put an eye on him!" Master Bates "Good Conduct Bates" stepped forward, with his fists up.
"I'll make you pay for this yere conduck to an 'armless man wot was doin' nothink," he growled. Something floated into Patsy's mind, vague, terrible. Before he could grasp it another person joined the group, Sir Shawn O'Gara. "What's the matter?" he asked. "Who is this person?" His face changed. Patsy Kenny, who was watching him, saw the change. He had grown livid, his lips blue. Was he ill?
He claim li'l Dills ain' got no biznuss roun' callin' nowhere 't all, 'cause he on'y make about eighteen dollars a week an' ain't wuth it. He say " She was confirmed in this report by an indignant interruption from Florence. "That's just what he did say, the old thing! I heard him, myself, and if you care to ask me, I'll be glad to inform you that I think grandpa's conduck was simply insulting!"
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