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Just as she drove past, he put his great hand on the edge of the little cart, with one pull took a copper can from its straw, put it to his mouth and drank; then he sent the can clattering through the window of the first-best house, till the panes rattled again. Looking round as if bewildered and set going, roused by what he had done he caught sight of the frightened little dairy-maid.
"I am sorry this thing has happened, Ham; but I couldn't help it," I began, after we had ridden a quarter of a mile in silence. "You pitched in, and I had to defend myself. I hope you won't do it again." Ham made no reply. "Because, if you do, it will come out just as this has," I continued. "I suppose you feel a little sore about this scrape, for you don't come out first-best in it.
I thought you was queen o' the kitchen!" "Kate gives me her chance, sometimes. We change about, to make things even. The best of it is in the up-stairs work, and waiting at table is the first-best chance of all. You see, you 'take it in at the pores, as the man says in the play." "Tea and oysters?" said Elise, with an exclamatory interrogation. "You know better. See here, Elise.
"And I am I the first-best ...?" asked Ishmael in a low voice. Georgie nodded. "Ah!" she said; "you need never be jealous of poor Val. If anyone has anything to be jealous over, it's me not that I'm going to be. After all, one can't be a man's first love and his last, and it's more important to be his last! What's the matter ...? You look funny, somehow...."
He did not want matters to work along until they reached the breaking point, for that would mean a nasty fight; and while he and his chums would undoubtedly come out of this first-best there must be some bruises received, and perhaps blood might have to be shed. So he concluded to stop things where they were.
The simplicity of a vice may be as real as the simplicity of a virtue." Ah, David, David, I know not what to think of those strange words; but old Soolsby seemed well to understand thee, and he called thee "a first-best gentleman." Is my story long?
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