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'Twas the same with me when I was young and in love long o' you! And wa'n't you contrairy nyther? Lord, Hannah, why when you used to get on your high horse with me, I'd be offen my feed for weeks and weeks together. My heart would be swelled up to my very throat, and my stomach wouldn't be nowhar!" "Reuben, don't be a fool, it's not becoming in the father of a family," said Mrs.
"Who is doing the work, Maria?" I asked, after a minute. "Miss Daisy," she said, "dere ain't no happenin' at all widout de Lord lets it happen. Dere is much contrairy in dis world fact, dere is; but I 'spect de Lord make it up to us by'm by." And she turned her face full upon me with a smile of so much quiet resting in that truth, that for just a moment it silenced me.
What gien we never see 'im again! Eh, sirs! it's a terrible thing to be made sae contrairy! What'll come o' me in the neist warl', it wad be hard for onybody to say!" On the evening of the second day, however, while she was "washing up" in the gloomiest frame of mind, in walked Cosmo, and a gentleman after him. "Hoo's my father, Grizzie?" asked Cosmo.
There is not a more cross-grained man alive; his relations are in the right of it, he is sly, revengeful, and contrairy. . . . M. Magus has come, as I told you, and is waiting to see you." "Right! I will be there as soon as you. Your income depends upon the price the collection will fetch. If it brings in eight hundred thousand francs, you shall have fifteen hundred francs a year.
"Quick wi' 'is 'ands 'e may be, an' able to give a goodish thump, but as for beatin' me it's 'all me eye an' Betty Martin, an' you can lay to that, my lads. I could put 'im to sleep any time an' anywhere, an' I'd like ah! I'd like to see the chap as says contrairy!" "I'd like," repeated Cragg, "ah! I'd like to see the cove as says contrairy."
Will you, because he's a villain, make yourself murdherers make yourselves blacker than he is?" "Wiry, thin, death alive! Connor, have you your seven sinsis about you? Faith, that's good; as if it was a sin to knock such a white-livered Judas upon the head! Sin! oh hell resave the morsel o' sin in that but the contrairy.
"The Duke gave Lady Montairy some large Cochins the other day," continued the Duchess, changing the subject with delicate tact. "Lady Montairy, Quite contrairy, How do your cochins grow?" sang Lothaw gayly. The Duchess looked shocked. After a prolonged silence, Lothaw abruptly and gravely said:
Why ever should they want to go swarmin' now in that contrairy way?" She opened the oven door and took out the bread as she spoke. "Now, don't you go running off, Lilac," she continued. "There's enough of 'em out there to settle all the bees as ever was. You get your uncle's tea and take it out, and Peter's too. They won't neither of 'em be in till supper. Hurry now."
'Captain Gills, said Toots, kindly, 'I hope and trust there's nothing wrong? 'Thank'ee, my lad, not a bit, said the Captain. 'Quite contrairy. 'You have the appearance of being overcome, Captain Gills, observed Mr Toots. 'Why, my lad, I am took aback, the Captain admitted. 'I am. 'Is there anything I can do, Captain Gills? inquired Mr Toots. 'If there is, make use of me.
"Well," said he, turning his quid from one cheek to the other for Joe was guilty of the bad habit of chewing tobacco, "well, it's not for the likes o' me to put my opinion contrairy to yourn, an' in coorse it's all very right that our poor messmate should have been looked arter, an I'm very glad he wos.
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