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Updated: May 26, 2025
"Am I such a contemptible-looking boy?" he thought; and then he felt better: for there was evidently someone following him, and the laughter was not at his expense, but at that of the man coming in his direction, for someone cried "Wait a bit, Lambert!" "Yes; steady there, Dan'l!" "Hi! you sir, don't you stand anything. He eats and drinks more than is good for him already."
I don't suppose in all this country there is a more contemptible-looking creature than you are as you sit there with that Dolly pinafore upon you. He coloured up at that, for he was a vain man, and he winced from ridicule. "'It's only a dust-cloak, said he, and he slipped it off.
Within a week the camp knew two facts concerning the newcomer. His name was Dennis! And he had loved Tom Barker's dough-faced wife! Tom's selection of his first instrument of torture indicated subtlety. He bought from a Siwash Indian the most contemptible-looking cur ever beheld at the inlet, and he christened the unfortunate beast Dennis. There was a resemblance between dog and man.
'Walk and gaze, until you come to the most shabby, stunted, weazened, scrubby, dwarfish, expanse of snobbish bushes, ignominiously bound neck and crop to the espaliers like a man on the rack these utterly poor, starved, and meagre-looking growths, allowing as they do the gravelly soil to shew in bald patches of gray shingle through the straggling branches these contemptible-looking shrubs, like paralysed and withered raspberries, it is which produce the most priceless, and the most inimitably flavoured wines. The grapes are such mean and pitiful grapes as you would look at with contempt in Covent-Garden Market; and the very value of the soil contributes to its appearance of destitution a rudely-carved stake marking the division of properties where a hedge or ditch would take up too much of the precious ground.
An unerring judge of the necessary in all things, he thoroughly understands degrees of strength, and knows very well when working for an employer how to give the least possible for the most he can get. This contemptible-looking gun will be found to play a serious part in the life of the family inhabiting this cottage, and you will presently learn how and why.
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