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The self-satisfied slaves must stay in prison until they see where they are and it is curious and sad to see them rejoicing in bondage and miscalling it freedom. It makes one long to see them struck by an emergency, bringing a flash of inner light which is often the beginning of an entire change of state.
At first it was only between two who had been miscalling one another; but there was many looking on, and when the town man was like getting the worst of it the others set to, and a most heathenish fray with no sense in it ensued. One man had his arm broken.
"Mamma, said she, Tommy Careless was flogged for tearing his book, Jackey Fidget because he was a naughty boy and would not sit still, Polly Giddybrains, for losing her needle and thread paper, and, Lord bless me! my ma'am was so cross, that she was going to put the nasty fool's cap on my head, only for miscalling the first word in my lesson."
'Why, he said, 'you may hold it for main and certain that he have not had Kat Howard down. For, having had her down, a would never have thrown a man by the throat for miscalling of her. Therefore Kat Howard is up for all of he, and I may loosen my feelings. He spat gravely at Culpepper's feet.
Hill ain't a gentleman?" "My dear Joanna! Of course he's not he doesn't profess to be." "He's got a good position as a clerk. Some clerks are gentlemen." "But this one isn't." "How do you know?" "Because I happen to be engaged to someone who is." "That ain't any reason for miscalling my friends."
If she followed the beaten track on her long run to the River Plate as sailors will persist in miscalling that wondrous Rio de la Plata she might be signaled from Madeira or the Cape Verde Islands. But shipmasters often prefer to set a course clear of the land till they pick up the coast of South America.
My compagnion must also in the water like a watter dogg, comes and takes hould of the foure oares. All the wild men swims like watter doggs, not as we swime. We mende the boat there neatly, not without miscalling one another.
"Then I please that you let me have another hundred. Why, man, you know you let Mrs. Hinchinbroke two thousand upon a case of diamonds not a quarter so many as mine." "But consider, madam; Mrs. Hinchinbroke's were of the best water." "Positively, Mr. Burnet," exclaimed her ladyship, purposely miscalling his name, "not better than mine!
They've been starving ye, I'm thinking, and miscalling it religion. It's enough to drive a reasonable body to drink. Carnal I am, laddie, and I just want to put some flesh on your bones. Monks indeed! And in this age of the world too! Little Jack Horners sitting in corners and saying, 'Oh, what a good boy am I!" John defended his late brethren.
Why, then, nothing, with your permission." This led the officer to start railing at the culprit, while the crowd listened as silently and attentively as though he had been saying something worthy to be heard and heeded, rather than foully and cynically miscalling their mothers.
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