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Updated: April 30, 2025
"Even if he turns up his toes, 'tain't YOUR funeral, thank the Lord! an' looky here, I'd jest as soon set things in a bake pan an' pass 'em for you, myself. I'll do it, if you say the word." Mother bit her lip, and fought her face to keep it straight, as she said confidential-like: "No, I'm not going to toady to her.
I saw a young fellow standing at the shop door talking to her the other morning very confidential-like a young fellow that could not have any lawful business with her." "What kind of a person was he?" "A large, dark man, dressed like a picture in a tailor's window. His servant-man, in a livery of brown and yellow, was holding the horses in a fine dog-cart.
And you sez to me, sez you confidential-like, and between man and man sez you, 'Do you know anything in his behalf? and I sez to you, sez I confidential-like, as between man and man 'What should a man know of his pardner?" "Is this all you have to say?" asked the Judge impatiently, feeling, perhaps, that a dangerous sympathy of humor was beginning to humanize the Court.
Here'd I been tow-rowin up and down the high seas at tenpence a day these six years past, doin my little bit to spoil Boney's game; and here was this chap dismissed with ignominy, mind! toff'd out like a dandy Admiral, flashin his French rings and sham Emperors in my face. "Still I aren't no mug. So cardingly, "'What's it all about, Bert? says I, confidential-like.
He was a sprightly young fellow, gay and chipper-like, and he sez to me, confidential-like, 'Collinson, sez he, 'I'm off to the States this very night on business of importance; mebbe I'll be away a long time for years! You know, sez he, 'Mr. Key, in the Hollow! Go to him, sez he, 'and tell him ez how I hadn't time to get to see him; tell him, sez he, 'that RIVERS' you've got the name, Mr.
And you sez to me, sez you, confidential-like, and between man and man, sez you, 'Do you know anything in his behalf? and I sez to you, sez I, confidential-like, as between man and man, 'What should a man know of his pardner?" "Is this all you have to say? asked the Judge impatiently, feeling, perhaps, that a dangerous sympathy of humor was beginning to humanize the court.
Well, that woman sticks her skull outer the window, and sez she, confidential-like to old yaller-belly, sez she, 'William Henry, sez she, 'tell that man his horses are running away!" "You didn't get to see the the daughter, Bill, did you?" asked Jeff, whose laugh had become quite uneasy.
"If you had seen him makin' up to a piece of calico inside, last trip, and she a-makin' up to him quite confidential-like, I guess you'd think he was a lady-killer. My eye, but wasn't she a stunner! Clytie Morpher wasn't nowhere to begin with her." "Who was she, Bill?" asked half a dozen masculine voices. "Don't know. We picked her up this side of 'Coyote. Fancy?
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