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You're quite upsetting my idees about aristocrats; for though I like the Littlepages, I've always set 'em down as desp'rate aristocrats." "Nein, nein; dem as vat you calls dimigogues be der American arisdograts.
One says they've the habit of disguisin' theirselves as Red Injuns, another holds as they goes foolin' around as or'nary cowboys, but wearin' face masks; an' another as they travels in a faked-up conveyance that strangers might mistake for a stage coach. But all agree that they're just desp'rate chara'ters all round. As to who they are, well, I dunno no more'n you.
"And yet there was naught but the prints of the buck's hoofs in the soil here be sure of that. The ground was trampled all about as though the fight had been desp'rate as indeed it must have been." "But that blow on the head?" reiterated Enoch. "Ah, lad, I can't understand that. The wound certainly was mainly like a blow from a gun-stock," admitted Bolderwood.
I hunted all the new rope in the house, and they took the firearms away from the robbers, and drove 'em off to jail, and the robbers turned out to be three of the most desp'rate characters in the State, and they're in prison now for a long term of years." "What did you do the rest of the night?" inquired Grandma Padgett.
"They're a desp'rate, evil set," said the toll-woman sternly. "Why, I could tell things that would make your hair all stand on end, about robberies I've known." Aunt Corinne felt a warning stir in her scalp-lock. But her nephew began to desire permanent encampment in the neighborhood of this toll-gate.
He'd worried himself near sick, worked himself up desp'rate, and had finished by doin' something that stood to get him put away for ten or fifteen years all for forty bucks! "Piddie," says I, "for a tinhorn, you're a wonder! But, say, when you get home to-night tell that kid of yours I want to see them new shoes of his before he gets the toes all stubbed out." Chee! W'atcher think?
"Eh! but, Moll, wot 'as come o' yer word, as you'd take no more notice o' them, since them two little orphans runned away last winter?" "There's no manner o' use in twitting at me, John. A stray child allers reminds me so desp'rate hard o' Charlie, and then I'm jest done for. 'Twill be so to the end. Hany stray 'ud do wot it liked wid Mammie Moseley. But eh!
"I says this," he said, looking squarely into the eyes of the other man, "that if I was in your place I'd follow it. If I was a drunken, desp'rate character, without shame or hope, I'd follow it. If I was in your place and you was in mine I'd say: 'Marshal, I'm willin' to swear if you'll give me the chance I'll quit the racket.
"'So fire a few shots through my clothes, here and there, To make it appear 't was a desp'rate affair. So Jim he popped first through the skirt of his coat, And then through his collar quite close to his throat. 'Now once through my broad-brim, quoth Ephraim, 'I vote. Heigho! yea thee and nay thee.
Undaunted be th' stairs iv th' building or th' rude jeers iv th' multichood, they advanced to th' very outside dures iv th' idifice. There an overwhelmin' force iv three polismen opposed thim. 'What d'ye want, mum? asked the polls. 'We demand th' suffrage, says th' commander iv th' army iv freedom. "The brutal polis refused to give it to thim an' a desp'rate battle followed.
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