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Updated: September 14, 2025
La Meffraye laughed a low, cackling laugh, and in the act showed the four long eye-teeth which were the sole remaining dental equipment of her mouth. "Oh, Great Barran " she chuckled, "listen to the pretty fool! Our brother will do this our brother will do that. Our brother will lick the country of Retz as clean as a dog licks a platter.
"By the way, Mr. Somers pays you compliments in his note. How old are you? I forget." He surveyed me with a doubtful look. Are you thin, or what is it?" "East wind, I guess. I am twenty-five." "And Veronica?" "Over twenty." "She must be married. I hope she will cut her practical eye-teeth then, for Somers's sake." "He does not require a practically minded woman." "What do men require!"
"Do you remember the day, when we were children, that we all went to the dentist?" says the Brat, chuckling, "and father gave Bobby a New Testament because he had his eye-tooth out? Does to-day at all remind you of it, Nancy?" "I had far rather have both my eye-teeth out, and several of my double ones, too," reply I, sincerely. A little pause.
"Now, Tom, I thought you had cut your eye-teeth long enough not to let them Anderson boys fool you. Tom, you must not think because a white man says a thing, it must be so, and that a colored man's word is no account 'longside of his. Tom, if ever we get our freedom, we've got to learn to trust each other and stick together if we would be a people.
It was then that he saw that her teeth had aged a little, yellowed a little; a dark spot menaced the loss of one of the eye-teeth if not attended to at once. But her figure seemed the same, and to get a back view he dropped his stick.
Of the various nostrums prescribed by these political quacks, two have been thoroughly tried, but the aggravating results have only cut the eye-teeth of the humbugged; and when they take the field themselves as political economists they will have a preparation of their own that will be bitter enough to the taste of those to whom they will apply it.
They are very desirous to possess a reputation for being, to use their borrowed phraseology, "Knowing 'coons, with their eye-teeth well cut." It would be well if they borrowed from their neighbours, the Yankees, something more useful than their slang, which renders the vernacular of the province rather repulsive.
'I saw all my friends was goin', he said, 'an' th'd be nobody left in the country but me. "I reckon I can bite them ca'tridges off with my eye-teeth, if I really want to do it," I says, an' I was on the train an' half-way to Danbury before I recollected that Mrs. Todd had told me to bring home a dime's wuth o' coffee an' a pound o' sugar.
Their nose orifices opened downward; likewise the bridges of their noses were more developed, did not look so squat nor crushed as ours. Their lips were less flabby and pendent, and their eye-teeth did not look so much like fangs. However, they were quite as thin-hipped as we, and did not weigh much more. Take it all in all, they were less different from us than were we from the Tree People.
"Half of the aspiring gilded youth of the city would give their eye-teeth to make it. How did you manage?" "I didn't manage. It was managed for me. Old Poultney Masters put me in." "Well, don't scowl at me! For a reporter, you know, it's rather an achievement to get into The Retreat." "I suppose so. Though I'm not a reporter now." "Well, for any newspaper man. What are you, by the way?"
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