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"You can read, I suppose?" "Oh yes; I can read well enough." "What have you read?" demanded Bob. "On'y bits of old noospapers," replied Pat, with a look of contempt, "an' I don't like readin'." "Don't like it? Of course you don't, you ignorant curmudgeon, if noospapers is all you've read. Now, Pat, I got this book, not for myself but a purpus for you."
She was a conspirator; she was trusted with a tremendous secret; she was to help the beautiful and enormous O'Toole to a rich and beautiful wife; she was to outwit an old curmudgeon of an uncle; she was to succour a maiden heart-broken and imprisoned. Jenny was quite uplifted. Never had a maid-servant been born to so high a destiny.
Tibbets, seizing the hand and pressing it to the heart he had thus defended from the suspicion of being pumice, "yes, that I should have trusted that dunderheaded, rascally curmudgeon Peck; that I should have let him call it 'The Capitalist, despite all my convictions, when the Anti " "Pshaw!" interrupted my father, drawing away his hand.
Grudge and I walked for a while in silence. "'And what sort of a name has Mr. John Lovyes in these parts? he asked. "'An honest sort, said I emphatically 'the name of a man who loves his wife. "'Or her money, he sneered. 'Bah! a surly ill-conditioned dog, I'll warrant, the curmudgeon!" "'You are marvellously recovered of your cold, said I. "He stopped, and looked across the Sound.
'A lawyer like thee, young curmudgeon! A lawyer afford to feel compassion gratis! Either thou art a very deep knave, or the greenest of all greenhorns. Well, I suppose, I must let thee off for one guinea, and the clerk's fee. A bad business, a shocking business!
But perhaps I am interrupting you." "Ha," said Mr. Jellicoe, "now, I happen to be going to the Museum too, to see Doctor Norbury. I suppose that is another coincidence?" "Certainly it is," Miss Bellingham replied; and then she asked: "Shall we walk together?" and the old curmudgeon actually said "yes" confound him!
"Dic asked him to loan me enough money to pay my overdraft said he would go on the note but he refused point blank; said the twenty-three hundred dollars he loaned father and Uncle Jim Fisher was all the money he had. The miserly old curmudgeon!" Mrs. Bays went weeping to Tom's side. "Poor Tom, my dear, dear son," she whimpered, trying to embrace him.
That will take me back to Delhi in very good shape," he soliloquized. "I wonder if there is anyway to get at that girl? If I mistake not, she will have a half a million! The old Commissioner always liked me, too. By God! If I could only get in between him and this baronetcy I might creep in on the girl's friendship! But the old curmudgeon keeps her locked up! Rather risky in India!"
Which reminds one of the story told of Professor Josiah Royce, who once rang up six fares on the register when he wished to stop a Boston street-car. When the conductor protested, the philosopher called him "up-start," "curmudgeon" and "nincompoop," and showed the fallacy of his claim that thirty cents had been lost, since nobody had found it.
Might she hope to coax an old pair of trowsers out of her cousin, who was spending his Long Vacation at the Vicarage, and who never reckoned very closely with his allowance, and kept no charity bag at all? Lastly would "that old curmudgeon at the Dovecot" let his little farm-boy go to church and school and choir? "I must go and persuade him," said the young lady.
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