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The man was a short, gross creature, with an enormous head and a big, open mouth, showing broken teeth that were black with the juice of tobacco. The girl was by common judgment and report a gawk a great, slow-eyed, comely-looking, comfortable, easy-going gawk.
"But what's the guid o' 't a', whan I'll never see her again?" sobbed Cosmo. "Wha says sic a thing, laddie?" "A' body," answered Cosmo, a good deal astonished at the question. "Maister A' body has a heap o' the gawk in him yet, Cosmo," replied his master. "Infac' he's scarce mair nor an infant yet, though he wull speyk as gien the haill universe o' wisdom an' knowledge war open til 'im!
"Have you a lantern?" asked Bouchard in exasperation. "A lantern?" repeated Minna blankly. Time! time! She must gain time! "Yes, you gawk, a lantern!" "Certainly; you'll need one," said Minna "a big one! Go and fetch a big army one and some soldiers to fight the ghosts. But what are soldiers against ghosts? Oh, sir, I don't like to think of you going at all.
Ashe to help your young man and I did care about your poor brother and and " she stroked the girl's arm "I do look rather nice when I'm dressed, don't I? You wouldn't like a great gawk to dress, would you?" "I'm sure I don't want to leave your ladyship," said the girl, choking. "But I can't have no more " "No more ructions?" said Kitty, meditating.
If Aldersgate Street had surprised them, much more were they astonished at the din and turmoil of Chepeside, and Hugh, having twice narrowly escaped riding over a citizen, and being soundly rated for a country gawk, Rupert turned to him. "Look at your horse's head, Hugh, and pay no attention to aught else.
She had him ast into the cushioned sanctuary an' Aleck hadn't seen much them days an' what did he do but gawk around an' plump hisself down into that gilt-backed rocker with a tune-playin' seat in it, an', of co'se, quick ez his weight struck it, it started up a jig tune, an' they say Aleck shot out o' that door like ez ef he'd been fired out of a cannon.
But mayhaps now that ye've gone up in the world, ye'd like to cry off from the bargain?" "But let me finish the campaign by capturin' Philadelphia, and dispersin' Washington's pack of peddlers and jail-birds, which won't take mor'n a fortnight, and then you can't name a day too soon for me, an' I hope not for your daughter. You can't call me gawk any longer, I reckon, Janice?"
But the colour deepened rather than lessened, and a moment later she rose, with her lips pressed into a straight line, and her eyes shining very brightly. "I'll not marry the gawk. No! And if they insist I'll " Then she paused. "How did Janice take it?" asked Mrs. Meredith, when the squire had broken his news to her. "Coltishly," responded the father, "but no blubbering this time.
The September before I reached seventeen, we persuaded mother to let me go to Madison and study for a half year. So great was my eagerness to learn from books, that I had given no thought to people. Madison, my first town, showed me that my clothes were homemade and tacky. Other girls wore store shoes and what seemed to me beautifully made dresses. I was a backwoods gawk.
He sat opposite her at dinner, and it was terrible impossible to say anything for fear of saying the wrong thing, impossible to keep his eyes fixed on her in the only natural way; in sum, impossible to treat normally one with whom in fancy he had already been over the hills and far away; conscious, too, all the time, that he must seem to her, to all of them, a dumb gawk. Yes, it was terrible!
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