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Such is the power of tradition and virtue of a festival, and such the instinctive brotherliness of men, that on this day the mere sight of an acquaintance will soften the voice and warm the heart of the most superior sceptic and curmudgeon that the age of disillusion has produced. In spite of himself, faith flickers up in him again, be it only for a moment.
You may depend upon it, sir, the other jurors had been 'got at." One day a celebrated advocate was arguing before him, when, to express his contempt of what he was saying, the cantankerous old curmudgeon of a Judge pointed with one forefinger to one of his ears, and with the other to the opposite one. "You see this, Mr. ?" "I do, my lord," said the advocate.
Who stole my bread? My bread is first-class! Come and buy! 'But I haven't a red copper! 'All right, give me a pledge! 'You may have my troubles as a pledge, you old curmudgeon! 'Here are two pennies, give me the bread! 'Get out, I was ahead of you! 'I insist upon my rights, I was the first. 'Why, I handed my money over long ago, it is my bread. 'You stole my bread. 'You lie, it's my bread! 'You're a liar, a thief, a robber! 'The devil take you, you hound! 'Wait a moment, and I'll show you my teeth, if I'm a hound!
Brydges did some hard thinking and let the Ranger do the heaping. "Sort of razzle-dazzler, MacDonald's daughter; she's a winner; but you can't get at her! Sort of feel when she's talking to you as if her other self was 'way down East. Wonder what the old curmudgeon brought her back here for? If she'd let down her high airs a peg, she'd have every fellow in the Valley on a string.
I'll wage 'tis to fetch your children back from school." "Partly," assented Eli. "Iss; partly, that, an' to listen here to their voices soundin' so pretty across the wall. And partly, I reckon, 'tis on the chance to get speech with the Lord Proprietor and persuade 'em to let you bide on Saaron. But that you'll never do. Mind, I'm not sayin' a word against th' old curmudgeon.
He alternately triumphed in the completion of his revenge, and regretted the loss of the reward to the shrivelled old curmudgeon we had just quitted, whom however he swore he would cheat of it by one means or another. He claimed to himself the ingenuity of having devised the halfpenny legend, the thought of which was all his own, and was an expedient that was impossible to fail.
In everything it is clean-shaven. Your third estate is insipid, colorless, odorless, and shapeless. The dreams of your bourgeois who set up, as they express it: a pretty boudoir freshly decorated, violet, ebony and calico. Make way! Make way! the Sieur Curmudgeon is marrying Mademoiselle Clutch-penny. Sumptuousness and splendor. A louis d'or has been stuck to a candle. There's the epoch for you.
Therefore I answered him with some readiness, such as comes sometimes to me, although I am so slow. "Sir, I am no curmudgeon: if a young man had called me so, it would not have been well with him. This money shall be paid, if due, albeit I had no desire to incur the debt. You have advised me that the Court is liable for my expenses, so far as they be reasonable.
"And so," says he, "as I know he is a mean curmudgeon, who goes to bed by daylight to save candles, it will be too late to speak with him to-night; besides, let him call upon me; it is his business and not mine. I left word where I was to be found; the money is ready, and if I don't pay him to-night, I can do it before breakfast." By the time these firm resolutions were made, supper was ready.
"I hardly knew it was in my heart myself." "It sharpens a man's wits to be called a liar and not to be able to deny the name." "And you called me a curmudgeon! Oh, how did you happen on that funny old word?" Her laugh rang fresh and gay through the quiet of the night. "After you'd gone, Mina came to me." "What happened then?" "Well, I ought to have cried and Mina did." "Did Mina stop you going?"
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