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Updated: May 11, 2025
I'd rather die right here in my tracks than let a lot of low-lived mud-sills who never entered a gentleman's house in their lives come down here at the beck and call of this rail-splitter they've put in the White House and walk over us rough-shod! And you, Horn, a Virginian, defend it! By God, sir, it's enough to make a man's blood boil!" The inventor's eyes flashed.
He had been in the kitchen, demanding of Hannah, "Whose is all that baggage in the hall?" and Hannah, glad of an opportunity to "free her mind," had answered, "Some low-lived truck or other that they called 'Janet, and a body'd s'pose she owned the house, the way she went on, splittin' up yer board for kindlin', makin' missus' toast swim in butter, and a-bilin' three of them eggs you laid away to sell.
"Do you know what's going to happen to you?" said a voice from the group. The speaker was Radway, but the contractor kept himself well in the background. "We're going to burn your mill; we're going to burn your yards; we're going to burn your whole shooting match, you low-lived whelp!" "Yes, and we're going to string you to your own trestle!" growled another voice harshly.
"Me," he replied, "what, me, condescend to fellowship with a coward, and a low-lived, lazy, undermining villain? no, gentlemen, this cannot be; I had rather be borne off, like the bubble upon the dark blue ocean, with Ambulinia by my side, than to have him in the ascending or descending line of relationship.
"Tripe and onions!" he sed furcely; then he added, "I eat with you, but I hate you. You're a low-lived Yankee!" To which I pleasantly replied, "How'l you have your tripe?" "Fried, mudsill! with plenty of ham-fat!" He et very ravenus. Poor feller! He had lived on odds and ends for several days, eatin' crackers that had bin turned over by revelers in the bread tray at the bar.
Before Florence Nightingale gave herself and initiated the movement for the training of young women of standing as nurses, such work had been left to the rough, uncouth, and often low-lived men and women, of whom the unspeakable Sairey Gamp, immortalized by Charles Dickens, is a fitting type.
'Maybe sometime I'll tell you, she informed him. 'If you didn't mean it, we'll forget it now. And I'll try to believe that you didn't mean anything. He was considerably puzzled. He scratched his head and wondered. So there was something, then, that he had done to offend her? Then he was a low-lived dog and should have been choked to death.
But " and she said it slowly, confronting them "if you all throw me down and leave me short-handed without giving me time to take on another set of men, you are a pretty low-lived bunch!" Then, without turning, she went swiftly to the ranch-house. Old man Carson wiped the sweat from his forehead. "I remember hearing about Luke Sanford's girl," he said simply. "This is her, all right."
Steele halted him by a gesture. "Don't begin abusing her; you're not married to her yet. I overheard your talk and guessed the low-lived, scoundrelly trick you proposed to play on her." "You damned eavesdropper " "Sure, eavesdropper is right," Weir interrupted, coolly.
"My name's Cathcart; I'm from just above." He drank, and lowered the canteen to look into the flaming, bloodshot eyes of his companion. "Are you the low-lived skunk that's running the Hydraulic Company?" demanded Charley Gates. The stranger laid down the canteen and scrambled painfully to his feet.
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