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Samuel Wilkins ordered two glasses of rum-and-water ‘warm with—’ and two slices of lemon, for himself and the other young man, together with ‘a pint o’ sherry wine for the ladies, and some sweet carraway-seed biscuits;’ and they would have been quite comfortable and happy, only a strange gentleman with large whiskers would stare at Miss J’mima Ivins, and another gentleman in a plaid waistcoat would wink at Miss J’mima Ivins’s friend; on which Miss Jemima Ivins’s friend’s young man exhibited symptoms of boiling over, and began to mutter about ‘people’s imperence,’ and ‘swells out o’ luck;’ and to intimate, in oblique terms, a vague intention of knocking somebody’s head off; which he was only prevented from announcing more emphatically, by both Miss J’mima Ivins and her friend threatening to faint away on the spot if he said another word.
Mother Mawks, who had been testing the coins Liz had given her by biting them ferociously with her large yellow teeth, broke into a loud laugh. "Take it with yer! I like that! Wot imperence! Take it with yer!" Then, with her huge red arms akimbo, she added, with a grin, "Tell yer wot, if yer likes to pay me 'arf a crown, yer can 'ave it to cuddle, an' welcome!"
"Drat her imperence," said Peter, who brought in the news. "It's like her ways to come when she can't get a morsel of wholesome food elsewhere." Then Ada and Edith had rushed off to lay hold of the delinquent, who had indeed left a feeling in the hearts of her mistresses of some love for her little foibles. "Oh! Feemy, so you've come back again," said Ada, "and you've grown so big!"
Have a shot, now, Shins. James. None o' your imperence, young blackie! 'And me over the money, and I'll give it to the gen'leman. Bill. Do you see anything peticlar green in my eye, Rainbow? JAMES makes a rush. BILL gets down before him. JAMES tumbles over him. BILL blacks his face with his brush. Ha! ha! ha! Bill Shoeblack his mark! Who's blackie now?
"Then get up and wash that there delf don't give me any imperence, or you'll find yourself in the street; there's others better than you I've turned away, and the work'us has been their end so mind your business, and do what you're told!" With this parting injunction Mrs. Murphy left the kitchen. The winter passed cold, foggy, murky, miserable winter. Eily was transformed.
On these they are about to act, one crying out, "Let's pitch into the yokel and gie him a good trouncin'!" a second adding, "Hang his imperence!" while a third counsels teaching him "Portsmouth manners."
"You correct me, indeed!" said Miss Betsy, turning up her nose, if possible, higher than before; "I should like to see you erect me! Imperence!" and they all began laffin again. By this time Mrs. S. had recovered from the effex of her exsize, and she began to pour in HER wolly. Fust she called Mary names, then Shum.
There were no more, and it was hardly likely Mrs Nash would go for more. Before I could make up my mind, Whipcord had rung a loud peal on the bell, and Mrs Nash in due time appeared. "More buns, and look sharp, old woman," said Doubleday. "I'll old woman you if I've much of your imperence, my young dandy!" was the somewhat startling rejoinder.
This was rather a literal interpretation of my demand; but, without permitting myself to be nonplussed by it, or paying any heed to the abrupt words of dismissal, I replied, half interrogatively: "You, then, are he? You are Hick Holt, I suppose?" "Who said I ain't durn your imperence? Now, then, what d'ye want wi' me?"
"'In the name of Imperence, says I, rushing on Thomas, and collaring him fit to throttle him 'no raskle of a flunky shall insult ME, and I sent him staggerin up aginst the porter, and both of 'em into the hall-chair with a flopp when Mary Hann, jumping down, says, 'O James! O Mr. Plush! read this' and she pulled out a billy doo. "I reckanized the and-writing of Hangelina."
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