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"No, no, tell me. I am much too nervous to read it." "It says that they will be paroled to-day, and that they passed a comfortable night." "It must be a Yankee lie," said the lady. "Oh, what a night! I saw them torturing him in a thousand ways the barbarians! I know he had to sleep on a dirty floor with low-down trash." "But we shall have him here to-night, Aunt Lillian!" cried Virginia.
One of the worst cases was that of Livius, a low-down, money-grubbing German Portuguese, who ousted the future Master of the Rolls; Sir William Grant, a man most admirably fitted to interpret the laws of Canada with knowledge, sympathy, and absolute impartiality. Livius as chief justice was more than Carleton could stand in silence.
He wandered into the Lone Star, and placing his crude bullion upon the counter, swept about him a comprehensive hand. To his wonder there was no response. A few of the assembled populace shifted uneasily in their seats, but none arose. "Do you take this for a low-down placer camp?" asked Billy Hudgens, with a dull show of pride, when McGinnis demanded the gold scales.
I says: "All right; but wait a minute. There's one more thing a thing that NOBODY don't know but me. And that is, there's a nigger here that I'm a-trying to steal out of slavery, and his name is JIM old Miss Watson's Jim." He says: "What! Why, Jim is " He stopped and went to studying. I says: "I know what you'll say. You'll say it's dirty, low-down business; but what if it is?
I thought it all out, and reckoned I would belong to the widow's if he wanted me, though I couldn't make out how he was a-going to be any better off then than what he was before, seeing I was so ignorant, and so kind of low-down and ornery. Pap he hadn't been seen for more than a year, and that was comfortable for me; I didn't want to see him no more.
"And Dan Dolan has struck it with them," said Dud, watching Miss Polly's dancing along loyally by her nice boy's side. "Dan Dolan! Can't you give them a tip about him." "A tip?" echoed Minna, puzzled. "Yes," said Dud, his brow darkening. "People like that don't want to know such low-down chumps as Dan Dolan. Why, he's in St.
Well, speaking personal, I never had smelled none of roses. I wasn't nothing but trash myself, so being a gentleman didn't bother me one way or the other. The only reason I didn't want to see them niggers bunked so very bad was only jest because it was such a low-down, ornery kind of trick. "It ain't too late," I says, "to pull out of this nigger scheme yet and get into something more honest."
But the moment he opened his mouth he had us spellbound. The language which your low-down lawyer used was that of a God-sent prophet, sir. He had those Illinois bumpkins all worked up, the women crying, and some of the men, too. And mad!
He hez his new wife aboard, and she considers pipes ez low-down." Tom laughed as he thought of Mrs. Aubrey, and flung his clay over the side. "What ship is this, Bannister?" "The J.W. Seaver, of 'Frisco. We're from the Gilbert Islands with a cargo of copra." "Who is your supercargo?" "Haven't got one. Can't get one here, either. Say, Tom, you're the man. The captain will jump at getting you!
"Jennechka, you're so clever, so brave, so kind; beg Emma Edwardovna for me the little housekeeper will listen to you," she implored Jennka and kissed her bare shoulders and wetted them with tears. "She won't listen to anybody," gloomily answered Jennka. "And you did have to tie up with a fool and a low-down fellow like that." "Jennechka, but you yourself advised me to," timidly retorted Liubka.
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