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Updated: June 8, 2025
No cringing, smirking, obsequious counter-jumper he, but a dashing sprig, who, perhaps, owns his bar and all its contents, and who holds his head as high as either the clerk or captain. As I approached this gentleman, he placed a glass upon the counter, and threw into it some broken fragments of ice. All this was done without a word having passed between us. I had no need to give an order.
Her beauty made him tingle. "So can I," she said. They walked in silence several squares. "When will I see you again?" he asked. "Tonight?" "Yes do come down. But Ruth'll be there. I believe Artie Sinclair's coming." "Oh, that counter-jumper?" She looked at him in surprise. "He's an awfully nice fellow," said she. "About the nicest in town." "Of course," replied Sam elaborately.
'If that ferroflucto spitchebubbio, he said, passing from French into Italian, 'if that counter-jumper Klueberio could not appreciate his obvious duty or was afraid, so much the worse for him!... A cheap soul, and that's all about it!... As for the conditions of the duel, I am your second, and your interests are sacred to me!... When I lived in Padua there was a regiment of the white dragoons stationed there, and I was very intimate with many of the officers!... I was quite familiar with their whole code.
Before they could come to a decision, Tom Robinson himself appeared in the foreground. He was speaking, or rather listening to a giant of a farmer in a light overcoat and streaming cravat, who, in place of treating the master of "Robinson's" as "a whipper-snapper of a counter-jumper," was behaving to him with the most unsophisticated deference.
Only on each fresh occasion that it is brought home to me and it has been brought home abominably clearly to-night my gorge rises at it. And it ought to be so. For it is an outrage you yourself must admit that a man who started with excellent prospects and with the consciousness of unusual talents of genius, perhaps should be ruined and broken, while every miserable little counter-jumper "
"Oh, I picked it up from one of the servants; her cousin was a counter-jumper. She always made me laugh when she spoke about it. She described how he doled out yards of ribbon, and she said that his figure was all gone to nothing, but he was very genteel-looking. I used to make her tell me about him, because I used to frighten her with spiders and wasps if she didn't.
It is a sad thing, I think, to find many of our wealthy farmers bringing up their children with the idea that a farmer is not as respectable as a counter-jumper in a city or village store, or that the kitchen is too trying for the delicate organization of the daughter, and that her vocation is to adorn the drawing-room, to be waited on by mamma, and to make a brilliant match.
Ned Harris was surprised. He had set Redburn down as a faint-hearted, dubious-couraged counter-jumper from the East; he saw now that there was something of him, after all. "Come on, young man!" and the young miner stepped forward a pace; "are you with me?" "To the ears!" replied Harris, grimly.
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