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He fancies himself a second Goethe, I hav'n't forgot his hitting at me, before a large supper party, with a certain epigram of that old turkeycock's about the whale having his unmentionable parasite and the great man likewise. Whale, indeed! I bide my time, Alton, my boy I bide my time; and then let your grand aristocrat look out!

"Arter a while, I guess they don't," Jim responded; "an', now, what's the damage? for I've got to go 'long." "I sha'n't charge you anything," whispered Mr. Buffum. "You hav'n't said anything about old Tilden, and it's just as well." Jim winked, nodded, and indicated that he not only understood Mr. Buffum, but would act upon his hint. Then he went into the house, bade good-bye to Mr.

"But really, you know, I hav'n't a voice," exclaimed the ensign in expostulation. "Gammon!" cried Bob. "He can sing like a bird, gentlemen. Silence, please, for our national song, `The Englishman'!" "I can't sing it indeed I can't," cried the ensign. "Oh, yes, you can; go on," said the young lieutenant who had previously spoken. "To be sure he will," cried Bob Roberts.

"There it is, in the grass, hanging by the cord." "Oh, that's better," groaned the boy. "I thought all our chaps had gone on and left me to die." "And now you see that they hav'n't," said the boy's companion. "There, don't try to move. We mustn't be seen." "Yes," almost babbled the boy, speaking piteously, "I thought they had all gone, and left me here.

"Absurd fer you, cos I ain't got no smarmy eddication, cos I ain't dressed in swaller tails an' kids, same as city folks. Oh, I know! You're a leddy a city-raised leddy, an' I I'm jest a prairie hog. That's it. You ain't got no use fer me. You jest come along right here an' laff, an' laff at us folks. Oh, you needn't to say you hav'n't!" as she raised a protesting hand.

"You're a couple of confounded muffs," shouted Eric, banging the door, and flinging into his own study again without farther reply. "Hav'n't you been a little hard on him, considering the row he's in?" asked Owen. Montagu's head was resting on his hand as he bent over the table. "Perhaps I have, indeed. But who could help it, Owen, in the present state of things?

Now you'd 'a' thought she would cry and run, for she wasn't bigger than a baby, much; but she jest come up and put her little fat arms round my neck, and says, "'I'm so sorry, Eben! "And that's Hetty Buel! I declare I was beat, and I hav'n't never got over bein' beat about that.

I'm a rough 'un, I know; but I hav'n't broke out of prison, or cheated the gallows " "My dear sir," interposed Valentine, eagerly and alarmedly, "pray don't imagine any such offensive ideas ever entered my head! I might perhaps have thought that family troubles " "That's it," Mat broke in quickly. "Family troubles. Drop it there; and you'll leave it right." Before Mr.

"You hav'n't done it to-day certainly," answered Barling. "Will you wait here a quarter of an hour?" asked Henry. "For what?" "I want to pay you off and begin again. I am going for some money." "Yes, I'll wait," replied the young man. "Very well. I'll be back in a few minutes."

"Queequeg," said I, "let's go; this fellow has broken loose from somewhere; he's talking about something and somebody we don't know." "Stop!" cried the stranger. "Ye said true ye hav'n't seen Old Thunder yet, have ye?" "Who's Old Thunder?" said I, again riveted with the insane earnestness of his manner. "Captain Ahab." "What! the captain of our ship, the Pequod?"

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