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Updated: June 2, 2025
Nick Undrell did not answer this very pertinent question, and his visitor did not press him, but resumed, still casually "Can't say as this is quite a palatial residence for an industrious man that's called successful. You used ter make good money at one time, Nick, when you worked along with Buckskin Jack; had a consid'rable bankin' account, too. This all you've got ter show for it?" "Yep.
I want to reward you all accordingly." "No occasion ter hurry 'bout the payment," said Nick, assuming an air of indifference. "Next week'll be time enough." He glanced down at the bundle of greenbacks and gave a little gasp of envious surprise. "Say," he observed, "you got consid'rable confidence in folk's honesty to carry a heap o' dollars like that along o' you."
She was settin' right in the next seat to me, and she had a shut-over bag consid'rable like mine, and when she got up to git out, she took mine by mistake. I was a good deal put out about it, and I expect I talked to her like a Dutch uncle when I caught up with her. Dear! dear! Where is Cap'n Burgess?"
"I should say she did!" exclaimed Miss Jane; "to put that screaming, suffering child in the baby-carriage and run all the way to the doctor's when there wasn't a soul on hand to advise her! Two or three more such actions would make the Simpson name sound consid'rable sweeter in this neighborhood."
"Did you want to go sooner?" asked the man, who seemed to be entirely too much interested in humanity to succeed in the railroad business. "Well, as you seem to have consid'rable of a family on your hands, I guess we'll take you along. Jim, unlock that car and let these children in, and then lock it up again.
'Aleck was a turror, an' no mistake, says I. 'An' Miltiades, he says. 'I on'y know what I hear iv him, says I. 'But fr'm all accounts he must have been consid'rable iv a fellow, says I. 'An' in later days Marco Boozaris, he says.
Always ready nay, eager for sympathetic discourse, the negro received his young master with a bland, expansive, we might almost say effusive, smile. "Well, massa, how's you gittin' along now?" "Pretty well, Quashy. How do you?" "Oh! fuss-rate, massa only consid'rable obercome wid surprise." "What surprises you?" "De way we's agwine, to be sure. Look dar."
The man of medicine seemed a little surprised at the lady's command of the situation, but he said: "Why, yes, ma'am; I guess you may. You have nursed before, I think the Captain said." "Five years with my husband. He had slow consumption. Before that with my mother, and most of my brothers and sisters at one time or another. I've seen consid'rable sickness all my life.
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