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"Abner," said Herbert, after a pause, during which he had been thinking seriously, "would you mind running away pretty soon?" "No, bub; I'm ready any time. Are you in a hurry?" "You see, Abner, I don't want to live on your mother. She isn't rich " "No, I guess not. Ef she hadn't married sech a good-for-nothin' as dad " "I wouldn't speak so of your father, Abner." "Why not? Isn't it the truth?
"Miss Doc," he said, "I only want the little kid. Don't say he ain't here." "Tellin' me I'd steal!" she said, in her indignation. "You shiftless, good-for-nothin' " But she left her string of epithets incompleted, all on account of an interruption in the shape of Tintoretto. Keno had made up his mind that everything was going wrong, and he had loosed the pup.
"Lift his hand!" cried Sonora, looking as if for sanction at the newcomer, who stood in the centre of the room, calmly smoking a huge cigar. Forcing up The Sidney Duck's arms, Trinidad threw upon the table a deck of cards which he had found concealed about the other's person, bursting out with: "There! Look at that, the infernal, good-for-nothin' cheat!"
Men are so wicked, and young girls are full of deceit and so ready to listen to all sorts of artful creturs that take advantage of their ignorance and tender years." She wept once more, this time with sobs that seemed irrepressible. "Dear suz!" said the nurse, "I won't believe no sech thing as wickedness about Myrtle Hazard. You mean she's gone an' run off with some good-for-nothin' man or other?
"Well!" exclaimed Miss Betsy, "what are you two a-doin' here?" There was news in her face, both saw; yet they also remarked that the meeting did not seem to be entirely welcome to her. "I came," said Martha, "to see whether Gilbert could tell me why you were hiding in the woods, instead of coming home." "It's that that good-for-nothin' serpent, Jake Fairthorn!" cried Miss Lavender.
"Gracious alive, what has possessed the man! Oh, you do distress me so. How could you do such a thing, Limuel? I do believe you have gone daft. But you go right out there now and dig up them good-for-nothin' chickens and bring me that curtain. Go right on this minit." "What, Susan, and rob the dead and the brave? You wouldn't have me do that."
"Not if they offer me a thousand dollars for the trip," growled his master. "You would for a dead beat, though," suggested the devoted servant, who by virtue of five years of service knew whereof he spoke, "if he'd smashed his good-for-nothin' head." "Not if he'd smashed his whole blamed body so long as there was another surgeon in the county who could do the job."
An' as all we get's from England, I say, let us stick to England, but nobody agrees wid me. There's the girl, now. Away ye go, me little duck, me daughter, me beauty, me bad luck to ye, will ye go? What are ye standin' there for? Will ye get out o' that, ye lazy brute? Take that, an' that, an' that, ye idle, good-for-nothin', desavin', durty daughter of a pig.
"Things goes along for mighty like a month, an' then this yere Benson Annie allows she'll have a visitor. "'I'm plumb, clean sick, she says, 'of seein' nothin' but a lot of drunken, good-for-nothin' sots a-pesterin' 'round, an' I done reckons I'll have my friend Sal come over from Tombstone an' see me a whole lot. It'll be some relaxation.
Do you think I'd let her stay in till the maggot bit you? Oh, ay, indeed! In the mane time, as soon as you are done breakfast, I want you in the study, to put the bindage on that ould, good-for-nothin' leg o' yours; an' mark my words, let there be no shirkin' now, for on it must go, an' will, too.
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