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Updated: October 1, 2025
He had been courtin' Miss Anne 'bout de time Marse Chan fit de duil wid her pa, an' Miss Anne hed kicked 'im, dough he wuz mighty rich, 'cause he warn' nuthin' but a half-strainer, an' 'cause she like Marse Chan, I believe, dough she didn' speak to 'im; an' Mr. Ronny he got drunk, an' 'cause Cun'l Chahmb'lin tole 'im not to come dyah no more, he got mighty mad.
The only embargo that I lay upon you is haul off, and mind you don't let your figurehead go by the board. Meanwhile, here comes the boat. Now, Nigel, none o' your courtin' till everything is settled and the wind fair dead aft my lad, and blowin' stiff. You and the hermit are goin' off to Krakatoa to-day, I suppose?" "Yes. I am just now waiting for him and Moses," returned Nigel.
It appears that Courtin had the Company's effects, as well as his own private property and that of his companions, on board his little fleet. "This made me change my route immediately. The mountains of Tibet appeared to me a safe and eminently suitable asylum until the arrival in the Ganges of the forces which we flattered ourselves were coming.
"I never saw anything like that," he said brusquely, "except maybe once," he added. With a sudden recollection of that afternoon they moved the herd out of south pasture. "Likely not," returned Bud. "He wasn't so bad till after yuh went. I got the notion he took to courtin' her, yuh might say, as a kind of last hope.
"Not I; divil a hap'orth I know about who he's courtin'." "No less than our great beauty, Bodagh Buie's daughter, Una O'Brien. Now, Bartle, for goodness sake, don't let this cross your lips to a livin' mortal. Sure I heard him tellin' all to the father and mother last night they're promised to one another. Eh! blessed saints, Bartle, what ails you? you're as white as a sheet.
"All right, old girl," said Ned, who would have said the same words if she had proposed to stand on her head on the step so easy was he in his mind as to how his wife spent her time; "if you sit for half-an-hour or so I'll be back to see you 'ome again. I'm on'y goin' to Bundle's shop for a bit o' baccy. Ain't I purlite now? Don't it mind you of the courtin' days?" "Ah!
That's all the courtin' there was. If ever I'm a widow I bet words said to her every now and then, even if she knows they ain't so." She got up and, before the mirror over the mantel, pinned on her hat, getting it, as usual, on the side. Taking up her coat, she felt it to see that it was dry, and again nodded at the lady in the chair.
"Here in the country we are allowed to dispense with much unnecessary social etiquette." "Air ye? Then off they come. I ain't much stuck on gloves, myself; but ma she 'lowed that a feller goin' courtin' orter look like a sport." A chorus of wild laughter, which greeted this speech, had the effect of making Skim stare at the girls indignantly.
I cannot quit Courtin without relating an adventure he had one day with Fieubet, a Councillor of State like himself. As they were going to Saint Germain they were stopped by several men and robbed; robbery was common in those days, and Fieubet lost all he had in his pockets.
"I don't like to be left alone with a gall, it's plaguy apt to set me a soft sawderin' and a courtin'. There's a sort of nateral attraction like in this world. Two ships in a calm, are sure to get up alongside of each other, if there is no wind, and they have nothin' to do, but look at each other; natur' does it.
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