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Updated: June 8, 2025
"Yes, certainly." "Well, sir, I can't help it; I'm dead-beat."
Lee gave an angry sniff, and flirted up his paper before his face. "Why don't ye say?" pressed Tappan, with a hard wink at the others. "I don't know that it is any of your business," replied Lee. "Ask when the millennium's comin'," said Amidon, in the chair. "I wish I was as sure of the millennium as I am of those dividends," declared Lee, brought to bay. "Glad you've got faith in that dead-beat.
When I ventured one day to tell the polite father of my present embarrassment I at once noticed a sudden cooling off. The little girl no longer came to talk with me and the family held aloof. Plainly I had become an object of suspicion, I was now penniless, my story might be true or perhaps I was paving the way for asking a loan. How could he tell that I was not a dead-beat?
The gray of the dawn gave way to a glowing sunrise; when they at length reached the quay, dead-beat with fatigue and want of sleep, the people were all about. They were dead-beat; but there were ten crans of herring in that boat.
It will sap the last germ of manhood out of a soul sooner than anything else I know of. It is one of the meanest vices in society, and one of the most prevalent among a certain class of young men. I will not say that every person who asks to borrow money from a friend without offering security is a dead-beat. Such a statement might be somewhat wide of the mark.
Beside him, also beaming, sat Mr. Goodfellow, with the corner cupboard nursed between his knees. "Capital news, lad!" announced Mr. Rogers, climbing down from the tilbury. "The filly's pretty near dead-beat, though must see to her and cool her down before telling it. Now, then, Mr. Goodfellow, if you'll hand out the cupboard. By the way, sonny, I hope Miss Plinlimmon can give us breakfast.
Oh, I know 'em, and that's what makes me get hot under the collar every time I get talkin' as I've been to-night! And now let's quit it. If yer dead-beat wants a job, and we can keep him from stealin' the tires off the wagon and the shoes off my big Jim, he can come to work in the mornin', and John will pay him a dollar a day and he can sleep over the stables.
So the guns were left, and by the evening of the next day the foot were dead-beat. "They cannot walk another mile!" says the Oberhauptmann. "Lassen Sie hinter!" says he. So on we went with the horse I was in his Pandour regiment, worse luck! But after a skirmish or two, what with the roads and what with the enemy, our horses were foundered and useless.
"There, there, don't be silly," said the woman. "I am going out for a day's charing, and have no time to be bothered. Look after Dan and do your duty. I expect he took a chill yesterday when you took him to Battersea Park; so now you must stay at home and nurse him back to health." Poor little Netty smiled rather faintly. "You're looking dead-beat yourself," said the woman.
Her great trouble was that she 'couldn't git no reg'lar schoolin' for the children. 'I learns 'em at home as much as I can. But I don't git a minute to call me own; an' I'm ginerally that dead-beat at night that I'm fit for nothink. Mary had some of the children up now and then later on, and taught them a little.
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