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He'd like to set the world in order if he could." "I admire his enterprise," said Juliet. He nodded. "So do I. He's cussed as a mule, but he's a goer. He's also a gentleman. Have you noticed that?" She smiled. "Of course I have." "And I can't get my wife to see it," said the squire. "Just because by his own idiotic choice he occupies a humble position, she won't allow him a single decent quality.
"Why, Sir Gervaise, she's like a piece of broken crockery, just now, and one can't tell all her merits. She's not a bad goer, and weatherly, I think, all will call her. But she's thundering French, inside." "We'll make her English in due time, sir. How are the leaks? do the pumps work freely?" "Deuce the l'ake has she, Sir Gervaise, and the pumps suck like a nine months' babby.
"By George!" he said to those near him, "she IS a goer, a regular goer"; and after much careful thought wired an inane suggestion about waiting until after the Wet. Darwin laughed outright, and an emphatic: "Wife determined, coming Tuesday's train," from the Maluka was followed by a complete breakdown at the Katherine.
What was there not to be seen and conquered? Where would he go? Where would he not go? For the spirit of Odin the Goer, the spirit which has sent his children round the world, was strong within him.
"The nigh one is my favorite, but the off one is the best goer, though she's dreadfully hard bitted," answered Ben the younger, with such a comical assumption of a jockey's important air that his father laughed as he said in an undertone, "Come, boy, we must drop the old slang since we've given up the old business.
"Tell me about the Morristons, Harry," Gifford said. "He is a very good fellow, isn't he?" "Dick Morriston? One of the best. Straight goer to hounds and straight in every other capacity, I should say. You know they used to live at Friar's Norton, near here, before they bought your uncle's place." "Yes, I know. What is the sister like?" "A fine, handsome girl," Kelson answered, without enthusiasm.
She behaved like an unbroken filly at first, but soon striking her pace, turned out a capital goer, and took us on without turning a hair till her work was done. The weather continued to be good, but clouds rolled up around the horizon. "It'll always be bad weather," said our saturnine jarvey, "when the Judges come to hold court, and never be good again till they rise."
To him a "gentleman" was a person who had the current accent and waistcoat, a competence, the entree here and there a goer unto the correct places with the correct people. Manners infinitely more than conduct; externals everything; let the whitening be white and the sepulchre mattered not.
I was better lookin' them days 'n I be now had more hair at any rate though," he remarked with a grin, "I was alwus a better goer than I was a looker. I was doin' fairly well," he continued, "but mebbe not so well as was thought by some. "Wa'al, she was a good-lookin' woman, some older 'n I was. She seemed to take some shine to me. I'd roughed it putty much alwus, an' she was putty clever to me.
From the grocery store, down at the "Four Corners," where Grandma Bell traded, the boys, the next day, got a fine large soap box. It was quite strong, too. "And it's got to be strong if you boys are going to ride around behind that dog Zip!" said the storekeeper. "He's a goer, Zip is! A goer!"
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