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Updated: June 26, 2025
The last time I was there, that yellow, sharp-nosed housekeeper of your mother's took me into the pantry, and said that the colonel was no despisable match, as she called it, and how the sale of his plantation in Georgia had brought him oh, Lord! I don't know how much." "Quite likely," returned the captain, "Katy Haynes is no bad calculator."
'I should regard any such means of gettin' into a maid's good graces as being despisable, he said, after a while. 'Very well, my Christian friend, the farmer's wife retorted, with a laugh. 'Them as mek bread without barm must look to spoil the batch. 'I was niver of a flatterin' turn of mind, said Thistlewood. 'You niver was, John, responded Mrs.
But Harvey is little better now than a beggar; and a beggar, Miss Jeanette, is the most awfully despisable of all earthly creatures." "Poverty is to be pitied, and not despised," said the lady, still unable to comprehend the extent of the misfortune that had befallen her neighbor during the night. "But how is the old man? And does this loss affect him much?"
"No, there never was an officer among you, that had any thing to brag of about us but one, and he wasn't a Britisher he was a despisable Blue-nose colonist boy of Halifax. When his captain was took below wounded, he was leftenant, so he jist ups and takes command o' the Shannon, and fit like a tiger and took our splendid frigate the Chesapeake, and that was sumthing to brag on.
It must have been the money that disturbed him; they say Captain Kidd walks near the spot where he buried gold in the old war." "I never t'ink Johnny Birch hab such a big eye!" said the African, his teeth yet chattering with the fright. "I'm sure 'twould be a botherment to a living soul to lose so much money. Harvey will be nothing but an utterly despisable, poverty-stricken wretch.
At the most, they could only have killed him, and now a body may say that they have slain both soul and body; or, what's the same thing, they have made him a despisable vagabond. I wonder who he thinks would be his wife, or who would keep his house, For my part, my good name is too precious to be living with a lone man; though, for the matter of that, he is never there.
Had I permission to publish all I am acquainted with, the very Hair upon your Head might stand up in Amazement at some of the Matters I could relate: how Mean and Base the Great and Powerful might become; how utterly Despisable some of the most Superb and Arrogant Creatures of this our Commonwealth might appear. But I am prudent and Hold my Tongue.
"Lift the corner stone, and you will find that which will make you rich, and me a beggar." "And then you will be despisable," said the housekeeper bitterly. "A peddler without goods and without money is sure to be despisable." "There will be enough left to pay for his halter," cried the Skinner, who was not slow to follow the instructions of Harvey, soon lighting upon a store of English guineas.
I know who you meet up the lake and take breakfast in farmhouses with, and I know why Miss Harriet was so dreadful scared you'd find out " Betty understood then why some people murdered others. Her eyes blazed so that the woman quailed. "Oh, I ain't so bad as you think," she stammered. "I'd never think any harm of you, and I'd never be so despisable as to take away any woman's character.
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