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Updated: May 31, 2025
Then he clucked to the half-breed woman, and she made ready as sumptuous a tea as ever entered the room of a convalescent. Like a waiter at a seaside hotel, Li Choo carried the tray above his head on three fingers to the staircase, and as he mounted to the landing, called out, "Welly good tea me bling gen'l'man."
If I have to put everything back in its former state, I will, at my own expense. So don't bother any more about that." "You're a gen'l'man, Mr. Ventimore," said Rapkin, cautiously regaining his feet. "There's no mishtaking a gen'l'man. I'm a gen'l'man." "Of course you are," said Horace genially, "and I'll tell you how you're going to show it.
An' ef yer doan' fin' yo'se'f marchin' on ter Wash'n'ton city an' a-talkin' to de Pres'dent an' de Senators, de whole kit an' bilin' of 'em, Marse Thomas ain't de buz'ness gen'l'man what I believe he is." Rupert lay still and looked straight before him, apparently at a bluebird balanced on a twig, but it was not the bird he was thinking of.
But he thought of Bill and stiffened his business nerve. "I got a heart; sure I've got a heart. You ask anybody if Casey's got a heart. But I also got a pardner." "Your pardner's likely gen'l'man enough to trust us, if you ain't," maw said sharply. "Yes, ma'am, he is. But he's got these tires to pay fer on the first of the month.
Oh, Missy Mara, ef you could ony seen de ole major, you'd a seen a genywine So' Car'liny gen'l'man ob wat dey call de ole school. Reckon dey habn't any betteh schools now.
There's a gen'l'man, a countryman of his, somewhere about, added he, looking anxiously into the surrounding crowd there's a gen'l'man, a countryman of his, somewhere about, if we could but find him, Bragg standing on his tiptoes, and exclaiming, 'Mr. Buckram! Mr. Buckram! Has anybody seen anything of Mr. Buckram!
"Vell, you see," continued the boy, "ven I'd made myself so disagreeable that the old gen'l'man would 'ave nothin' to do with me, I came straight away, an' 'ere I am; but it was a trial, let me tell you, specially ven 'e come to mention wages an sitch a 'eavenly smell o' roasted wittles come up from the kitchen too at the moment, but I 'ad only to look at Miss Di, to make me as stubborn as a nox or a hass. `Wot! thinks I to myself, `betray that hangel no, never! yet if I was to go into that 'ouse I know I'd do it, for daddy's got sitch a wheedlin' way with 'im w'en 'e likes, that I couldn't 'old hout long so I giv' old Swallowed-the-poker sitch a lot o' cheek that I thought 'e'd kick me right through the winder.
"Tell me, darlin', don' you love somebody? don' you love? you know, oh, tell me, darlin', don' you love to see the gen'l'man that keeps up at the school where you go? They say he's the pootiest gen'l'man that was ever in the town here. Don' be 'fraid of poor Ol' Sophy, darlin', she loved a man once, see here! Oh, I've showed you this often enough!"
"Dis is the gen'l'man wot'll go on Mr. Tulitz's bond, mum," said the guard. "His name's Rivers." "Madam Tulitz, I am your humble and obedient servant. Colonel Rivers, Colonel Edward Lawrence Rivers, and most happy in this unfortunate emergency to serve you. I have read in the papers of M. Tulitz's disagreeable er situation. It is a gross outrage. The bail is $5000, this gentleman tells me.
There's a letter for the head turnkey, Mr. Irreton. D'ye hear." "Yes, yer hon'r," replied the chairman, taking the note. "What are you waiting for?" asked Jack, impatiently. "The gen'l'man as hired us," replied the chairman. "Oh! he'll be after you directly. He's settling an account in the house. Lose no time. The letter will explain all."
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