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'Your daughter is very ill, I'm afraid, said I. 'Ay she'll be costin' me a handful, like her mother did, said Pegtop. 'I hope her room is comfortable, poor thing. 'Ay, that's it; she be comfortable enough, I warrant more nor I. It be all Meg, and nout o' Dickon. 'When did her illness commence? I asked. 'Day the mare wor shod Saturday.
We'll go further thin that. We'll put a tax iv forty per cent. on knitted undherwear costin' less thin a dollar twinty-five a dozen. We'll make a specyal assault on woolen socks an' cowhide shoes. We'll make an example iv this here pampered babe iv fortune, says he. "An' there it is.
"Gittin' mighty busy, all of a sudden, ain't ye," said the sour old woman, "now that ye air goin' away." "'Tain't costin' you nothin'," answered June quietly, and she picked up a pail and went out into the frosty, shivering daybreak to the old well.
Maybe you won't git to do no reg'lar cussin' a-tall. You see, McKettrick he up and made a little error himself. Regardin' me makin' an error. Yass.... I don't calc'late to make errors costin' upward of a hunderd thousand. No.... Not," he said, "that I got any doubts about the word 'westerly' appearin' in all the papers McKettrick's got regardin' this enterprise.
We'll show this vulgar upstart that he can't humilyate his fellow citizens be goin' around dhressed up like an Asyatic fav'rite iv th' Impror Neero, be Hivens. How will we get at him? says he. 'We'll put a tax iv sixty per cent. on ready made clothin' costin' less thin ten dollars a suit. That'll teach him to squander money wrung fr'm Jawn D. Rockyfellar in th' Roo dilly Pay.
Some one tapped at his door; his man entered. Costin was another bone of contention between Jimmy and the Great Horatio. "I never had a valet when I was your age," so his brother declared. "What in the wide world you need a valet for is past my comprehension."
"Has it been cropped to death? Is the soil worn out? Can't you run it and make something out of it?" "For pity's sake!" ejaculated the good lady, "how should I know? And I couldn't run it I shouldn't know how. "I've got a neighbor-woman in the house just now to 'tend to things and that's costin' me a dollar and a half a week.
She was the only woman he had ever loved; he was sure of that. He was more sure of it with every passing, wakeful second. He never slept a wink till it began to get light. When at last he fell asleep he had dreadful dreams. He woke up to the sound of Costin moving about the room. He turned over with a stifled groan. "Good morning, sir," said Costin stolidly. Jimmy did not condescend to answer.
So when you get your dinnas to-day, you may tink on what dat ar dinna come nigh to costin." "I wonder that you held on to them so tight, when they brought you into such danger." "Hole on? Why, dat ar's de berry reason why I did hole on. What, let go ob dem arter all my trouble on dat count? No.
"There is no need to to mention Miss Farrow if you understand?" "Perfectly, sir." "Very well; get out," said Jimmy. Costin obeyed imperturbably. He knew Jimmy Challoner very well; and in this case, at all events, the master was certainly no hero to the valet. Left alone, Jimmy subsided again into his chair with a sigh.
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