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Ecod! sir, you never seed such a likely litter o' young uns. Spick an' span, ecod! from stem t' stern. Smellin' clean an' sweet; decks as white as snow; an' every nail an' knob polished 'til it made you blink t' see it. An' when I was down Thunder Arm way, last season, they was some talk o' one o' them bein' raised for a parson!" I went on deck.
Jonas stood before the window, looking down into the street; and leaned against the sash, resting his head upon his arms. 'This is not handsome, Chuzzlewit! said Montague at length. 'Not handsome upon my soul! 'What would you have me do? he answered, looking round abruptly; 'What do you expect? 'Confidence, my good fellow. Some confidence! said Montague in an injured tone. 'Ecod!
"I niver ran for a guinea. I niver saw a guinea. I be going an errand for feyther." "Ecod, then!" said the other man. "You're on a wrong scent. 'Twas no dolt that ran that day!" The man who had touched her laughed. "'Facks, you are right, Tom! But I'd ha' sworn 't was that brown girl.
'Ecod, he gets in, and we get in, and we drive along the road, to show him to one of the railway clerks that was hid in the public- house window to identify him. But the clerk was bothered, and didn't know whether it was him, or wasn't because the reason why? I'll tell you, on account of his having shaved his whiskers.
Ecod, now, but it sounds a nice, lonesome place just the sort o' place for it, a a capital place as you might call it." And Mr. Shrig positively chuckled and rubbed his chubby hands together; but all at once, he shook his head gloomily, and glancing at Barnabas, sighed deeply. "But you von't go, o' course, sir?" "Go?" "To Oakshott's Barn, to-morrow evening?"
"Every man for himself. Besides, Mr. Love was dancing," replied Mr. Birnie, with a dull glance of disdain. "Philosophy," muttered Gawtrey, thrusting his dresscoat into his trunk; then, suddenly changing his voice, "Ha! ha! it was a very good joke after all own I did it well. Ecod! if he had not given me that look, I think I should have turned the tables on him.
I was of Sardinia and for that aforetime I much commended a master of mine of being jealous, I have been doomed of God to this punishment, that I must give thee to eat and drink and beat thee thus, till such time as God shall ordain otherwhat of thee and of me. Then said Ferondo, 'Is there none here other than we twain? 'Ay, answered the monk, 'there be folk by the thousands; but thou canst neither see nor hear them, nor they thee. Quoth Ferondo, 'And how far are we from our own countries? 'Ecod, replied the other, 'we are distant thence more miles than we can well cack at a bout. 'Faith, rejoined the farmer, 'that is far enough; meseemeth we must be out of the world, an it be so much as all that.
Wemmick was silent for a little while, and then said with a kind of start, "Well you know, Mr. Pip, I must tell you one thing. This is devilish good of you." "Say you'll help me to be good then," said I. "Ecod," replied Wemmick, shaking his head, "that's not my trade." "Nor is this your trading-place," said I. "You are right," he returned. "You hit the nail on the head. Mr.
It may happen we shall have no other chance to eat, and it would go hard against my nature to waste that pickled meat on naked savages. Ecod! it would try Job himself to stand by helpless, watching a clouted heathen gorge himself on what should be lying comfortable in our own stomachs. What say ye, Master Benteen?" "That our first effort be with the stones," I returned with decision.
He chuckled, he tweaked his long nose until it flared, he scratched his head, he sighed, he scowled, he broke into vociferous laughter; and he muttered "Ecod!" an innumerable number of times, voicing, thereby, the gamut of human emotions and the degrees thereof, from lowest melancholy to a crafty sort of cynicism and thence to the height of smug elation.
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