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I said, "Oh, HADN'T I?" Then a sudden thought flasht over me. "I have it!" I said. "When the Prince walks through a street, he no doubt looks at the shop windows." The man said, "No doubt." "And the enterprisin tradesman," I continnerd, "the moment the Prince gets out of sight, rushes frantically and has a tin sign painted, By Appintment, H.R.H.! It is a beautiful, a great idee!"
And I've got a few old scores to wipe out some old scores between that enterprisin' husband o' yours an' myself!" "What has he ever done to you? Why, should you want to punish him?" argued Frank, helplessly. "I'm not goin' to punish him!" declared MacNutt, with a little laugh. "That's just where the damned fine poetic justice of the thing comes in. He's goin' to punish himself!"
Going to make it a reg'lar smartgoin', enterprisin' place kind of Crystal Pallas." "Earthquake and a pestilence before you get that," my uncle would mutter, to the infinite delight of every one, and add something inaudible about "Cold Mutton Fat."... We were torn apart by a financial accident to my uncle of which I did not at first grasp the full bearings.
'Wal, I reckon most of the folks 'bout har' is Union; they're from the "old North," and gin'rally pore trash. 'I have heard that the majority of the turpentine getters are enterprising men and good citizens, more enterprising, even, than the cotton and rice planters. 'Wal, they is enterprisin', 'cause they don't keer for nuthin' 'cep' money.
"Let's count 'em," he said, and straightway began, placing the eggs in a pile midway between himself and his companion. "Twenty-eight. She was a enterprisin' hen." "I'll match for 'em," said Brevoort, hitching round and facing Pete. "I'll go you!"
Well, she was an enterprisin' little toad, was Miss Lot too, afeered of nothin' a'most; so nothin' would sarve her but she must out and have a scramb up to the tip-topest part of the peak afore breakfast.
"Wal, old Mother Hokum she heard on't, and she was a sort o' enterprisin' old crittur: fact was, she had to be, 'cause the young Hokums was jest like bag-worms, the more they growed the more they eat, and I expect she found it pretty hard to fill their mouths; and so she said ef there was any thing under that 'are rock, they'd as good's have it as the Devil; and so she didn't give old Hokum no peace o' his life, but he must see what there was there.
And Sam Amos, he says after meetin' broke, says he, 'It's my opinion that that man was a industrious, enterprisin' feller that was probably pickin' up kindlin'-wood to make his wife a fire, and, says he, 'if they wanted to stone anybody to death they better 'a' picked out some lazy, triflin' feller that didn't have energy enough to work Sunday or any other day. Sam always would have his say, and nothin' pleased him better'n to talk back to the preachers and git the better of 'em in a argument.
I say the good ship Assyrian has a pretty clean bill of health to go sailing with." "On the other hand" yet another American voice was speaking "no spy or criminal worth his salt would try to ship without preparations thorough enough to insure success, barring accidents." "Criminal?" drawled the Briton incredulously. "The enterprisin' burglar keeps a-burglin', even in war time.
It means they're catty themselves. But when one grabs a cat up as if she was goin' to eat it and cuddles it in her neck and talks baby-talk to it, you play her fur bein' sound and true. Pass up the others, son. "And speakin' of the fair sex," he added, as he and Percival were alone for a moment, "that enterprisin' lady we settled with is goin' to do one thing you'll approve of.
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