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And it's no bad fortin', though I can't say it of my own experience; but never mind, all the same, I've seen the likes to have a brisk, cheerful daughter-in-law keepin' house, and you a-settin' by the window, knittin' and restin' from mornin' till night, and maybe little caps and clothes to make, and lots o' things to teach, that young wives don't know o' theirselves.
Mr. Middleton observed it, and forgetting for a moment the death of his friend, he slapped Mr. Miller on his shoulder, saying, "I tell you what, my boy; it’s a mighty mean wind that blows nobody any good fortin. Miss Kate warn’t sent to Kentuck for nothin’, and unless you’re a bigger logger-head than I think you be, you’ll try to find out what she come for, and how long she’s goin’ to stay." Mr.
At any rate, they had "made his fortin', and he couldn't ha' done more'n that if he'd talked like a house a-fire" which explanation, often repeated, was about the longest one ever known to be uttered by Mr. Crull. Therefore Mr.
Frank hastened away, and soon after returned with the balance, thirteen pounds, which, as Douglas observed when they began supper, was the nucleus of their future fortune; while Joe remarked that "he didn't know wot nooklius wos, but if it meant the beginnin' of their fortin, it wasn't a big un, as things went at the diggin's."
The Marneffes had excited Lisbeth's compassion by allowing her to see the extreme poverty of the house, while varnishing it as usual with the fairest colors; their friends were under obligations to them and ungrateful; they had had much illness; Madame Fortin, her mother, had never known of their distress, and had died believing herself wealthy to the end, thanks to their superhuman efforts and so forth.
They knew the catastrophe; and the newspaper lying on the table showed how they had heard it. "Some one called to see you last night," said Mme. Fortin, a large fat woman, whose nose was always besmeared with snuff, and whose honeyed voice made a marked contrast with her bird-of-prey look. "Who?" "A gentleman of about fifty, tall and thin, with a long overcoat, coming down to his heels."
Buss him, call him brother, hug him, give him the "Abolition" kiss, write an article on slavery, like Dickens; marry him to a white gall to England, get him a saint's darter with a good fortin, and well soon see whether her father was a talkin' cant or no, about niggers. Cuss 'em, let any o' these Britishers give me slack, and I'll give 'em cranberry for their goose, I know.
"Let 'em alone let 'em alone, Jacky," answered the good-natured and kind-hearted Irish woman. "It's happy they bees, jist now, and it does my eyes good to look at 'em." "Ay, they're happy enough, now; I only hope it may last." "Last! what should help its lasting? Miss Rose is so good, and so handsome and she's a fortin', too; and the mate so nice a young man.
The Esquimaux drink it in the north, often. We must take the oil of the lighthouse to keep us from starving until the supply-boat comes down." "But how shall we get it?" asked the others. "It is locked up. Nataline Fortin has the key. Will she give it?" "Give it?" growled Thibault. "Name of a name! of course she will give it. She must. Is not a life, the life of all of us, more than a light?"
It was town meetin' day. "Well, there was a critter there, called by nickname, 'Goodish Greevoy, a mounted on a white pony, one o' the scariest little screamers, you ever see since you was born. He was a tryin' to get up a race, was Goodish, and banterin' every one that had a hoss to run with him. "His face was a fortin' to a painter.
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