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The toast was drunk with loud acclamations. 'I'll tell you what I shall do, to get up my shooting again, said Mr. Winkle, who was eating bread and ham with a pocket-knife. 'I'll put a stuffed partridge on the top of a post, and practise at it, beginning at a short distance, and lengthening it by degrees. I understand it's capital practice. 'I know a gen'l'man, Sir, said Mr.
"I want you to un'erstan'," he said thickly, "that no gen'l'man would mensh'n a lady's name in a place like this, or shpeak dissuspeckerly 'bout a lady 'n any place; an' I want you to unerstan' fu'thermo' that you're no gen'l'man, an' that I'm goin' t' lick you, by G d!" "The hell you are!" returned Fetters. A scowl of surprise rose on his handsome face, and he sprang to an attitude of defence.
The old gen'l'man likes to read out loud, and he reads tol'ble well. He eats hash freely, which makes his voice clear; but as he onfortnitly has to spell the most of his words, I may say he reads slow. Wall, whenever this lawyer made his appearance I would set the old man a-reading the Legislativ' reports.
"De gen'l'man dat sent me fur his bag is right down yere, I keeps tellin' you," Trencher heard the scared darky babbling as he was yanked past Trencher's refuge. "All right then, show him to me, that's all," the officer was saying impatiently. The chauffeur twisted about in his place, following the spectacle with his eyes. But Trencher had quit looking that way and was looking another way.
And yere I is, honey, and yere I stays. . . . Whut's dat you sayin'? De gen'l'man objec's? He do, do he?" The far-carrying voice rose shrilly and scornfully. "Well, let him! Dat's his privilege. Jes' let him keep on objectin' long ez he's a mind to. 'Tain't gwine 'fluence me none. . . . I don't keer none ef he do heah me. Mebbe it mout do him some good ef he do heah me.
Well, sir, the mare she just gives in at the knees and rubbed 'er nose agin' 'im, and says just as plain as Scripter that she was real sorry, and 'oped 'e 'd forget it as one gen'l'man to a lady. With sundry anecdotes of a like nature, Mathews guided the visitor past the long line of stalls, whose inhabitants kept their stately heads turned to gratify the insatiable curiosity of the equine.
'S-c-e-u-s-e me, sir; s-c-e-u-s-e me, repeats he, 'but I think you was wrong, sir, in objecting to Captain Boville, sir, as a gen'l'man rider, sir. 'Why? demands Pacey, in the full flush of victory. 'Oh, sir because, sir in fact, sir he is a gen'l'man, sir. 'Is a gentleman! How do you know? demands Pacey, in the same tone as before. 'Oh, sir, he's a gen'l'man an undoubted gen'l'man.
Stumps shot like an arrow past the landlord, a retired pugilist, who chanced to be in the doorway. Captain Rik, recovering, darted after him, but was arrested by the landlord. "Not quite so fast, old gen'l'man! As you've had some of your mate's beer, you'd better pay for it." "Let me go! stop him!" cried the captain, struggling. As well might he have struggled in the grasp of Hercules.
She said she would not go far, and would call at the haunted house once a month for her money. Then she said: "I don't hate you so much now, but I've hated you a many a year and anybody would. Didn't I change you off, en give you a good fambly en a good name, en made you a white gen'l'man en rich, wid store clothes on en what did I git for it?
"Master's been called away," she said in her croaking voice. "A burial. 'E 'adn't time to let you know. 'Tell the little gen'l'man, 'e said, 'I'm sorry." "All right," said Jeremy; "thank you." He descended the steps, then stood where he was, in the street, looking up and down. Who could deny that it was all being arranged for him? He felt more than ever like God as he looked proudly about him.
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