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Three or four days later, when Harry, as usual, was playing on his violin, and Mrs. Holl was washing, there was a knock at the door. "Drat it!" Mrs. Holl muttered, "who's a-coming bothering now, just when I am busy?" "If no one is to come except when you are not busy," Harry laughed, as Mrs.
"'That I did, said he; 'I saw plain enough which tree it was in my dream, but now they muddle it all, there are so many of 'em. "'Drat your stupid old head, says she, 'why didn't you put a nick on the right one at the time?" Robinson burst out laughing. George chuckled. "Oh!" said he, "there were a pair of them for wisdom, you may take your oath of that.
Instantly she remembered as clearly as though she were actually listening to the voice and words that her mother had burst out, "Drat that bird, it does seem as if every time I try to take a nap he just tries to wake me up." Una laughed grimly. Hastily she reproved herself, "Oh, but mother didn't mean "
Besides, it generally ends in asking people not to do something they are strongly tempted to do. The bark of the watch-dog is, in a rough-and-ready way, much too much like the voice of conscience to be agreeable to the natural man. Though sometime after he may be very grateful to the watch-dog for his bark, when he first hears it he is inclined to say: Oh! drat that dog. I wish he'd shut up.
Not that you have to laugh at Dr. Kennicott so much, but MY man, heavens, now there's a rare old bird! Reading story-books when he ought to be tending to business! 'Marcus Westlake, I say to him, 'you're a romantic old fool. And does he get angry? He does not! He chuckles and says, 'Yes, my beloved, folks do say that married people grow to resemble each other! Drat him!" Mrs.
He picked up the knife, and holding the leather rein across the palm of his left hand started to saw it gently with the blade. Almost instantly he left off. "Of all the bloomin' ijits! God drat me fer a goat! He'd feel that cut the first slip through his fingers the leather took." He gathered in the rein until he had it six inches from the bit.
Dolan," retorted Denis; "it's a pity you couldn't keep the hoult of any yerself." "Wisht, boys! how am I to marry you at all, if you go on this way? Come, Mary, off with that glove of yours; now for the ring, Denis:" and Mary hauled away at the glove, which the heat of her hand prevented her from pulling off. "Drat it for a glove, then!"
"'Twas the Cap'n himself, settin' on a pile of movin' joist and smokin' as usual. I didn't waste no time. "'Sol, says I, 'I've just come from Olive's. She's got that letter from the Omaha man. Poor thing! all alone there "He interrupted me sharp. 'Well? he snaps. 'What's it say? Will the cousin help her? "'No, I says, 'drat him, he won't!
The house was filled with chipmunks who frightened Julia, to whom they were "jest rats, drat 'em," and who raided the kitchen systematically. A trained grey squirrel barked from the trees above the house, and pet rabbits were numerous and unprofitable about the vegetable garden.
'Drat her and her babies! I often said to myself. What was Compas? No more than an Old Bailey lawyer; not fit to be looked at alongside of our Mr Whittlestaff. No more ain't Mr John Gordon, to my thinking. You think of all that, Miss Mary, and make up your mind whether you'll break his heart after giving a promise. Heart-breaking ain't to him what it is to John Gordon and the likes of him."
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