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"Yes, that is it," she pursued tranquilly, "Emma told me in confidence, 'To Crocker I cannot give it because of you all, but to our child I may, and it shall do with it what it will. Now do you prevail, Misters Dennis and Harwood?" "We are a bit downcast but not discomfited," acknowledged Dennis, while Harwood remained glumly within his smoke.
"Captain," began Ellery. Hammond interrupted him. "Hold on!" he said. "Belay right there. If you and I are to cruise in the same family and that's what I hear is likely to happen I cal'late we'll heave overboard the cap'ns and Misters. My name's 'Nathaniel' 'Nat' for short." "All right. And mine is 'John. Captain Nat, I mean how can I ever thank you?" "Thank me? What do you want to thank me for?
Outsiders read the thrilling line with awe and envy, and many of them are foolish enough to wish that they also were Lords Pedigree or Misters Nobody. As a matter of sad and sober fact, however, a dinner with royal personages is an extremely dull affair.
Whereupon the whisky was brought, and Mick insisted on shouting for it out of his own pocket. They had hardly gone a mile out of Nobble before Maggott started a little difficulty, merely for the purpose of solving it with a master's hand. 'There ain't to be no misters among us, you know. 'Certainly not, said Caldigate. 'My name's Mick. This chap's name's Dick. I didn't exactly catch your'n.
For, at the man's words, the Old Man threw back his head and laughed loudly. "Ho, ho, ho! D'ye hear that, Misters? The Swede has given us a sky-pilot a damned Holy Joe! By God, a Holy Joe on the Golden Bough! Ho, ho, ho!" Then he addressed the unfortunate man again. "So you are a Holy Joe, are you? You don't look it! You look like an ordinary stiff to me! Let me see what did you call yourself?
"Ai-yo-yo!" exclaimed widow Li, before the close of the message. "It's impossible for me to make out what you're driving at! What a heap of ladyships and misters!" "It's not to be wondered at that you can't make them out," interposed lady Feng laughing. "Why, her remarks refer to four or five distinct families." While speaking, she again faced Hsiao Hung.
He hoped to squeeze invitations out of them; for in a country entirely populated by monotonous Misters and Mrs-es, with nothing more decorative than a colonel or a general or a judge, even a poor Irish earl isn't to be sneezed at.
"Power deck, check in!" snapped Duke from the first chair. "Radar deck, check in!" "Just one moment, Mister," interrupted Roger. "When you issue an order over the intercom, I want to see you pick up that mike. I want to see all the motions. It's up to you, Misters, to make us believe that you are blasting off!" "Very well," replied Duke with a nervous glance back at his unit mates.
The stage-coachmen of England, at the time of which I am speaking, considered themselves mighty fine gentry, nay, I verily believe the most important personages of the realm, and their entertaining this high opinion of themselves can scarcely be wondered at; they were low fellows, but masters at driving; driving was in fashion, and sprigs of nobility used to dress as coachmen and imitate the slang and behaviour of the coachmen, from whom occasionally they would take lessons in driving as they sat beside them on the box, which post of honour any sprig of nobility who happened to take a place on a coach claimed as his unquestionable right; and these sprigs would smoke cigars and drink sherry with the coachmen in bar-rooms, and on the road; and, when bidding them farewell, would give them a guinea or a half-guinea, and shake them by the hand, so that these fellows, being low fellows, very naturally thought no small liquor of themselves, but would talk familiarly of their friends lords so and so, the honourable misters so and so, and Sir Harry and Sir Charles, and be wonderfully saucy to any one who was not a lord, or something of the kind; and this high opinion of themselves received daily augmentation from the servile homage paid them by the generality of the untitled male passengers, especially those on the fore part of the coach, who used to contend for the honour of sitting on the box with the coachman when no sprig was nigh to put in his claim.
Misters and Captains were common enough, but Esquires no. It was a Denboro custom, when one received a mysterious letter, to get the fullest enjoyment out of the mystery before solving it. I had known Dorinda Rogers to guess, surmise and speculate for ten minutes before opening a patent medicine circular.
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