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"All right, sir," said Buttons, putting down the coin on the table with a lingering finger. "Keep it," said Jasper, with a smile. "He's a gentleman," observed Buttons, on the way downstairs, Pickering treading his heels. "He ain't like the rest of 'em that boards here. They orders me around with a 'Here, you! or a 'Hoi, there, boy! They're gents; he's the whole word a first-class gentleman, Mr.
"It was far from pleasant," said Noah, tapping his fingers together reflectively. "I don't want to go through it again, and if, as Raleigh suggests, history is likely to repeat herself, I'll sublet the contract to Barnum here, and let him get the chaff." "It was all right in the end, though, dad," said Shem. "We had the great laugh on 'hoi polloi' the second day out." "We did, indeed," said Noah.
He institutes a new system of censorship of his own. It takes the form of sneering at and condemning anything that does not conform to his own ideas. He sniffs at all sorts of innocently happy people who are inoffensively pursuing their noisy course through life. He begins to hate noise. He makes a virtue of his abstention from ordinary pleasures. He speaks condescendingly of the "hoi polloi."
Wasn't that something?" "I don't hear anything, only the echo. Hoi!" Fred half shouted the last word, and as they listened it seemed to run right away in an echoing, hollow way, to die at last in quite a whisper. "What a horrible place!" faltered Scarlett. "Let's make haste back. I say, don't you feel scared?" "I don't know," whispered back Fred. "I feel as if I do.
Out of it two frog-like legs thrust and kicked with the action of one swimming. A protuberance crowned the rim of the barrel. Body, head, and arms were lost. The Parson whipped up Polly. "One for yourself!" he roared, prodding the boy's bad eminence, "and one for The Doxie's Daughter!" "Hoi! that's Blo-ub!" yelled a muffled voice.
Ben wuz so 'stonish' dat he couldn' hoi' de boy, who slipped out'n his ban's an run to'ds de house ez fas' ez his legs would tote 'im. "Po' Ben kep' gittin' wus an' wus mixed up. He couldn' make out fer de life er 'im w'at could be de matter. Nobody didn' 'pear ter wanter own 'im.
There was no reply. "Fred! Hoi! Where are you?" Still no reply.
Hoi, Robert!" he cried to a swaying collection of clothes in the distance, which was the figure of Creedle his man. "Go on filling in there till I come back." "I'm a-coming, sir; I'm a-coming." "Well, the reason is this," continued she, as they went on together "Mrs.
"'Tis riper and softer we ought to be growing in our old age, more ready to be gathered. I will go and see her sometimes; oftener than I have." Their conversation was interrupted by a shadow passing the window, and a firm footstep in the passage. "Hoi, hoi!" said a loud, breezy voice, "Mrs. Jones! how is she here?" and Gethin Owens clasped her hand with a resounding clap.
"Hoi, yerself!" says the corporal in charge. "We've got your man," says the constable. "Where?" says the corporal. "Here, between us," said the constable. "Only you don't recognize him out o' uniform." 'The corporal looked at Georgy hard enough; then shook his head and said he was not the absconder.
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