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Grace laughed, even though she had been somewhat shocked. "Why, Aunt Keziah!" she exclaimed those who knew Keziah Coffin best usually called her aunt, though real nephews and nieces she had none "why, Aunt Keziah! What do you mean by comparing the the person you just mentioned with a MINISTER!" "Oh, I wasn't comparin' 'em; I'll leave that for you Come-Outers to do. Drat this carpet!
"Smells savoury, don't it, Ann?" he questioned again, noting her puckered brow. "Very!" said I. "Did ye put in any salt or pepper, Jerry?" she demanded. "Drat my whiskers, never a shake nor pinch!" he exclaimed, whereupon Diana sighed, shook her head in silent reprobation and vanished into the dingy tent as one acquainted with its mysteries, leaving the Tinker gazing at the pot quite crestfallen.
Trapes, and her lined face took on a sudden anxious expression. "Therefore, I've been contemplating er tackling Mr. M'Ginnis at a proper and auspicious time, of course." "An' what o' the gang?" "Oh, drat the gang, Mrs. Trapes." "But you don't mean as you'd fight M'Ginnis?" "Well er the thought has occurred to me, Mrs.
Sampson, energetically, "which, no doubt, 'e was in good 'ealth when seein' the Queen of Sheber, as is necessary when anyone calls, and not feelin' disposed to speak, which I'm often that way myself on occasions, my sperits bein' low, as I've 'eard tell soder water 'ave that effect on 'em, which you takes it with a dash of brandy, tho' to be sure that might be the cause of your want of life, and drat that bell," she finished, hurrying out of the room as the front-door bell sounded, "which my legs is a-givin' way under me thro' bein' overworked."
"Drat the little beggars," he was muttering as he kept on digging at his leg, "they sure do beat anything I ever run acrost in all my wanderin's. It ain't so bad to be slappin' at pesky skeeters, 'cause I'm used to sich bloodsuckers; but sandflies, and' jiggers, an' redbugs make a combination that'd be hard to beat."
Bunce wept a flood of tears, and told her favourite lodger that for her all comfort in this world was over. "Drat the reformers, I say. And I wish there was no Parliament; so I do. What's the use of all the voting, when it means nothing but dry bread and cross words?"
But the twilight's using heavier spears now and likely it'll win. I want the alder berries to win out, drat it! Their blaze is so bright and cheerful." Roger accepted the challenge to argument with enthusiasm. "I want the twilight to win," he said. The Doctor looked slightly scandalized. "Oh, my, my, my, my!" he said. "I can't for the life of me understand any such gloomy preference as that.
But all he requires is good living, and I'll trust to you for that. He's a trump, if he is a Yankee. But drat him, I thought he'd spoil the joke by dying, at one time." The sentiments that people like Mrs. Poland and her daughter, Mrs. Arnot, and Laura, would naturally entertain toward one who had served them as Haldane had done, and at such risk to himself, can be better imagined than portrayed.
The books on the shelves, too, were dusty as dusty could be. Many of them were precious folios folios bound in calf which book-lovers would have given a great deal for but the dust lay thick on them, and Betty said, with a look of disgust, that they soiled her fingers. "Oh, drat you and your fingers!" said nurse. "You think of nothing but those blessed trashy novels you are always reading.
I reckon I sure ain't treated you right. If it hadn't been for you that time I'd "But I was b'ilin' over. I whirled on him like a teetotum. "'Drat your hide! I says. 'When you speak to your officer you say sir! And now you go for'ard and light them lights. Don't you answer back! If you do I'll fix you so's you'll never ship aboard another vessel! For'ard there! Lively, you lubber, lively!
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