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"No chance now, I'm afeard," remarked his companion. "The gov'nor's as stiff as a nor'-wester. Nothin' in the world can turn him once he's made up his mind but a regular sou'-easter. Now, if you had been my son, and yonder tight craft my ship, I would have said, 'Come at once. But your father knows best, lad; and you're a wise son to obey orders cheerfully, without question.
She looked at it fondly often with tears in her honest black eyes. "Lor', how well I disremember the night she fust wore it the night of the ball we give to Jineral Jackson when he first come to see old Marster. This flowered silk with pol'naize she wore at the Gov'nor's ball and the black velvet with cut steel I've seed her wearin' at many an' many a dinner here in this very house."
"Got to the Gov'nor's private bottle to-night," he said familiarly, "and took a couple of cocktails. Going over to see Nellie, but couldn't resist such beauties as" he pointed to her feet. "It was mean of you to slip upon me as you did," she said.
Is shutting it again. BILL shoves in his stool. Bill. Hillo, Blazes! where's your manners? Is that the way you behaves to callers on your gov'nor's business? Get about your own business, you imperent boy! Bill. I'm about it now, young man. I wants to see your gov'nor. James. You've got business with him, have you, eh? Bill. Amazin' precoxity! You've hit it! James. A humbug you are!
On his way to the cellar the man confided to Molly, who was carrying the soup: "The Gov'nor's going it to-night! What he'll be like tomorrow I dunno." The girl answered softly: "Poor old man, let um have his pleasure." And, in the hall, with the soup tureen against her bosom, she hummed above the steam, and thought of the ribbons on her new chemises, bought out of the sovereign he had given her.
Something large always could be expected of the "Gov'nor." Although he lived in three figures, he thought in seven, and not one of the Gov'nor's many projects had been capitalized at less than a million. Conrad has said that listening to a Russian socialist is much like listening to a highly accomplished parrot one never can rid himself of the suspicion that he knows what he is talking about.
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