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"I did want a bed to-night," he murmured gently. "Well," Steve suggested, "the American looks like he washed the oftenest." "That's of no consequence to me," observed the Southerner. "Guess it'll be when yu' see 'em." "Oh, I'm meaning something different. I wanted a bed to myself." "Then you'll have to build one." "Bet yu' I have the Dutchman's." "Take a man that won't scare.
There's the Dutchman's castle, and we are just beyond it. Am I walking too fast for you, Ruby?" "No, no." She hurried on. Her whole body was clamouring for warm water with a certain essence dissolved in it, for a change of stockings and shoes, for a tea-gown, for a sofa with a tea-table beside it, for a hundred and one things his manhood did not dream of. "Here it is at last!" he said.
See Blackie's Imperial Dictionary. Ed. 'Baulks, missing, omitting, leaving untouched. 'This was looked for at your hand, and this was baulked; the double gill of this opportunity you let time wash off, and you are now sailed into the north of my lady's opinion; where you will hang like an icicle on a Dutchman's beard. Twelfth Night, Act iii. Scene 2; and Imperial Dictionary. Ed.
The matter that most powerfully exercised me was the Dutchman's eager curiosity to discover the full extent of Billy's qualifications as a navigator.
The men now anxiously began to enquire along the road the distance to Chattanooga, and what about the enemy. To these questions they received about as intelligent answers as they might expect from a freshly imported Dutchman's "Nix-cum-erouse," as all we could learn was, that it was a "right smart distance," and that Bragg had a "heap" of men, and us Yankees would wish ourselves "done gone."
By his side the Dutchman's retainers fought sturdily, while the crack of the pistols of Hugh, Joe Sedley, and the master of the house were generally followed by a cry and a fall from the assailants. As the difficulty of their task became more apparent, the yells of fury of the crowd increased.
"As how?" queried the other. "Last time he runs his mare she's got corns in her feet the whole journey, an' all the time he owns the winner, Lauzanne, see? buys him before they go out. Then Langdon thinks The Dutchman's the goods, an' buys him at a fancy price gives a bale of long goods for him I've got it straight that he parted with fifteen thousand.
But there is no fundamental verity inherent in the idea: the Dutchman's salvation might as well depend on a throw of dice; and all this early nineteenth-century romantic sentimentalism, with one of its main notions that a woman cannot be better occupied than in "saving" a man this, grafted on to the stern, relentless old story, makes a compound that is always unreal and sometimes ludicrous.
I must say the pleasure of meeting was more on the Dutchman's side than on the Englishman's. By this time the former was quite intoxicated, and Mr. Lamb cleverly managed to get him to his room, and after having, as he thought, disposed of him, he came and joined us on the stoep.
"You're sure you ain't mistook in your thirst and that it ain't a suddint cravin' for licker, and that you ain't sort of p'intin' down the waterspout for the Dutchman's, Duckie Doodums?" "Shorely not, Honeybunch darlin'," he finally fetched up, though he was hardly breathing.
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