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"If I'd ha' been the manner o' man you'd ha' liked for a husband, I should ha' been despisable. My missis" he addressed his wife's visitor again "ought to ha' married a door-mat, then her could ha' wiped her feet upon him wheniver the fancy took her." With this he took his hat from a peg, stuck it at the back of his head, and marched out at the open front door. "Ah, my dear," said Mrs.
I'll make you a varse, that will suit a despisable colonist exactly. "I went up to London, the capital of the nation, To see Lord Stanley, and get a sitivation. Says he to me, 'Sam Slick, what can you do? Says I, 'Lord Stanley, jist as much as you. Liberate the rebels, and 'mancipate the niggers. Hurror for our side, and damn thimble-riggers. "Airth and seas!
"Them clothes of yourn is plum despisable to look at," he imparted, "so I borrowed an outfit offen a friend of mine that's about your size. Just crawl into 'em an' see how they fit."
East Looe was the ancienter corporation of the two, and for some ages ago the greater and more considerable town; but now they tell us West Looe is the richest, and has the most ships belonging to it. Were they put together, they would make a very handsome seaport town. They have a great fishing trade here, as well for supply of the country as for merchandise, and the towns are not despisable.
The surgeon disregarded the smile of the ladies, and pursued his inquiries. "It is doubtless wise to be prepared for death. But under whose care was the sick man during his indisposition?" "Under mine," answered Katy, with an air of a little importance. "And care thrown away I may well call it; for Harvey is quite too despisable to be any sort of compensation at present."
"My thoughts were bent on no such vanities, but rather mingled in consolation with those of the maidens." "The time may come when you will not consider the knife of a savage such a despisable vanity," returned the scout, with a strong expression of contempt for the other's dulness. "Had they held their corn-feast or can you say anything of the totems of the tribe?"
"I'm sure," said Katy, with a stiff erectness that drew Lawton back in his saddle, "no man shall ever dare to lay hands on bed of mine; it's undecent and despisable conduct." "Pooh! pooh!" cried Betty; "if you tag after a troop of horse, a small bit of a joke must be borne. What would become of the states and liberty, if the boys had never a clane shirt, or a drop to comfort them?
Mister, I don't want to hurt your feeling but 'cordin' to my way o' thinkin', paintin' as you do it, an't a trade at all it's nothin' but a darned despisable fine art! 'And with this candid statement of his views, my lost pupil turned to go. I burst out laughing.
"Not until now have I heard that Leif had a sister. Why is she never spoken of? Where does she live?" Helga shrugged impatiently. "She lives at Gardar with a witless man named Thorvard, whom she married for his wealth. She is a despisable creature. And the reason no one speaks of her is that if he did he would feel Thorhild's hands in his hair. There is great hatred between them.
Of course the fruit crop this season has been the worst in ten years, and of course there has been a frost this winter, the only severe one within the memory of the oldest inhabitant, that's the way it always is, and there I am! I suppose you despise me, Polly?" "Yes, I do!" Besides, you are not a despisable boy.
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