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Updated: May 29, 2025
Jim won't ever forgit you, Huck; you's de bes' fren' Jim's ever had; en you's de ONLY fren' ole Jim's got now." I was paddling off, all in a sweat to tell on him; but when he says this, it seemed to kind of take the tuck all out of me. I went along slow then, and I warn't right down certain whether I was glad I started or whether I warn't.
He stalked across to the tranquil form on the truck. "Billy," he said, and shook a massive shoulder. "Wake up. Tell me that girl's name." Strong opened his eyes like a baby waked from dewy sleep. "Wha's that, Recky dear old Recky bes' fren' " "Cut that out," said Rex, sharply. "Tell me the name of the girl you're waiting here to meet," and he laughed a short bitter laugh.
"Dat big man looked lak' he was jes' going t' start right in on his fren'. An' de luck turns his way, anyhow, and de lil' feller loses. 'I gibs yo' 'twill six-thirty to-night, de big man says. 'Dat's ma reg'lar dinner hour, an' I'm moughty savage ef I go much over ma dinner time.
Run me eye over the lists and picked out 'White Lady. Didn't know nothin' abaht her, said to a fren', 'here's my fancy. Don't know nothin' abaht her, but she's one of Lord Rawchester's, an' his horses run stright' That's what I said 'His horses run stright' and give me a stright run boss with a wooden leg before any of your fliers with a dope in his belly or a pullin' jockey on his back.
She is kep' by my fren', Madame Bouvet." "Xavier," said Nick, looking at the rolling flood of the river, "suppose this levee should break?" "Ah," said Xavier, "then some Spaniard who never have a bath he feel what water is lak." Followed by Benjy with the saddle-bags, we went down the steps set in the levee into this strange, foreign city.
They were close to a lamppost, and Jurgis got a glimpse of the other. He was a young fellow not much over eighteen, with a handsome boyish face. He wore a silk hat and a rich soft overcoat with a fur collar; and he smiled at Jurgis with benignant sympathy. "I'm hard up, too, my goo' fren'," he said. "I've got cruel parents, or I'd set you up. Whuzzamatter whizyer?" "I've been in the hospital."
Come along home, man; that's the place for you." But Billy was suddenly a Gibraltar of firmness. "Got date with lovely blue-eyed girlie couldn't dish'point her. Unmanly deed Recky, d' you want bes' fren' ev' had to do unmanly deed, and dish'point trustin' female? Nev', Recky nev', ol' man.
That reminded him of the deceased Sam, and he turned again to the monument. "Goo'bye, Sam," he cried suddenly, under the impression that he had been to a funeral. "I've paid me respecks to an ol' fren', an' now we'll both sleep in peace." "Come away and leave him," whispered Clara, trembling with disgust and mortification. "No fear!" said Jonah.
We found there our good padrone and another, a fine tall man, dressed very elaborately in short jacket and slit loose trousers, all sewn with many silver buttons and ornaments. "He my fren'," explained the padrone. "He have dose mulas." With the gorgeous individual Talbot concluded a bargain.
What little he had left was suddenly squeezed out of him; for Mrs. Bruden, dropping her frying-pan and dish-cloth, rushed upon him, exclaiming, "Ah! mine fren! mine fren! De goot Gott be praised;" and she gave him an embrace that made his bones ache. Mr. Bruder stalked about the room repeating with explosive energy, like minute-guns, "Praise Gott! Praise Gott!"
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