kentle

Updated: May 6, 2025

I see 'em dressed up and smirkin' and settin' their nets to ketch me when I was in an extremity. I wouldn't give a kentle o' sp'iled fish for the whole on 'em. I ain't a marryin' man, there's once for all for ye," and the old sailor stepped toward the door with some temper. "Ef you'll write to the young woman, sir, just to put off comin' for a couple or three weeks," suggested Mrs. French.

Sarah Orne Jewett - Strangers and Wayfarers