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When that letter was finished and posted, Delia made no more of an objection to going, only did the best she could, washing and mending her own little things and the baby's. But let her do her best and they were poor-looking little bits of duds! And many's the time, when Art was away, that she'd cry, and wish to herself that there was no such a place as Ardenoo on the face of this earthly world.
"I mean your grammar, Diana, and the word 'duds', whatever it may mean, sounds atrocious, especially on your lips " "Oh, tush! d'ye mean as they charges you all that money for them new " "Those!" I corrected. "Things you're wearing " "You forget the despised locket and chain," said I reproachfully, "and I also purchased two silver watches " "Watches? Two on 'em? What for?"
But Norton laughed at his nod. "Mebbe we do it a little different out here," he smiled. "You hop into them duds an' we'll go out into the cottonwood yonder an' try out your gun." He pointed through the door to a small clump of cottonwoods beyond the bunkhouse. He went out and fifteen minutes later Hollis joined him, looking thoroughly at home in his picturesque rigging.
My chest was safely deposited with the landlord; BUT IT WAS NEARLY EMPTY! To my dismay I found that my stock of clothing for a two years' voyage jackets, boots, hats, blankets, and books had vanished. A few "old duds" only were left, hardly enough for a change of raiment.
The man was in his bed, and his position as he cocked up there on his knees was not the most dignified I have seen; but even then he had the best of it, for I felt like a beggar before him in my shabby duds. Oh, he had the best of us all there!
Good-natured Lizzie would laugh when they said these things to her, when they told her that Becky Hawkins was nothin' but one o' that low lot who lived down amongst that thieving set by the East Cove alleys, that jus' as like as not she was a thief herself; that she was awful close and stingy, anyway, and saved up every scrap she could find; that they'd seen her themselves pick up old strings and buttons and such duds from the gutters!
"But where in the world did Captain Shivernock get these old duds?" mused the sheriff. "Of course he procured them to do this job with," replied Hasbrook. "That's clear enough; but where did they come from? He has covered his tracks so well, that he wouldn't pick these things up near home." "There comes a boat," said the victim of the outrage, as a sail rounded the point.
I wonder if I'm too late to get my papers? If I'm not, what a haul I'll make in these duds! Maybe enough to buy a suit for myself down at Cheap John's store. Then I'd have these wrapped in brown paper and sent back to Miss Armacost with my compliments. The compliments of Mister Towsley Lionel Towhead Armacost, esquire! Hi! ain't that a notion! But plague take these shoes!
It fairly oozed from him. As he dealt the first card to me, he paused and said: "Say, Bo, ain't I done seen you befo'?" "You sure have," I answered. "An' you didn't have those same duds on, either." He was puzzled. "D'ye remember Buffalo?" I queried.
Greene and his brave fellows showed no signs of faltering, but, as a diary reads, "took each man his duds to his back, bid them adieu, and marched on." Just over the boundary between Maine and Canada there was a great swamp. In this bog two companies lost their way, and waded knee-deep in the mire for ten miles in endless circles.
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