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Updated: June 6, 2025
Jim Wigson! the coarse, ignorant lout with whom he had been, more or less, at feud since his first day in Kinder, whom he had despised with all the strength of his young vanity. By to-morrow all Kinder would know, and all Kinder would laugh. 'What! yo whopped Reuben Grieve's nevvy, Jim? Wal, an a good thing, too!
"O, you're thinking of my uncle as had the bank in Cardiff," replied Wicks, with desperate aplomb. "I declare I never knew he had a nevvy!" said the stranger. "Well, you see he has!" says Wicks. "And how is the old man?" asked the other. "Fit as a fiddle," answered Wicks, and was opportunely summoned by the clerk.
"My nevvy took me to a show in Boston wunst," said Old Man Bogle, tentatively, but he was silenced immediately and sternly. "How kin a man combat evil," he demanded, "if he hain't familiar with the wiles of it?" "He kin set his face to the right," said the elder, "and tread the path." "You wouldn't b'lieve the things I seen in that show," said Bogle, waggling his head.
Bob Yancy swears he didn't see it, while Dave Blount swears he showed it to him. If Bob Yancy didn't know of the existence of the order he was clearly actin' on the idea that Blount was stealin' his nevvy, and he done what any one would have done under the circumstances.
"Well, I scarcely know, Nevvy, but that's what he done, and he stuck some words in front of it that ain't fitten I should repeat." Miss Malroy's cheeks had become very red, and Mrs. Ferris refused to meet her eye, while the children were in a flutter of pleased expectancy.
The only child of their nevvy an' niece, who's over seas at the minute, a takin' a vacation, with hearts broke because of word comin' the baby was lost.
"Every one said we would better talk with you, Mr. Yancy, and we were hoping to meet you as we came along," supplemented Miss Malroy, and her words of flattery were wafted to him with so sweet a smile that Yancy instantly capitulated. "I reckon you-all can count on my nevvy," he said.
Peter and Ginger went on eating their breakfast, but every time Peter looked up he caught 'is uncle looking at 'im in such a surprised and disappointed sort o' way that 'e didn't like the look of it at all. "I could just do it for a couple o' days, Sam," he ses at last, "but it'll leave me very short." "That's right," ses his uncle, smiling. "My nevvy, Peter Russet, will lend it to you, Mr.
"Please, Mr Kelson, as I was a-telling of your nevvy, it won't do just to come down on the lass like a thunder-clap, or it may send her over on her beam-ends," said Jerry as he ranged up alongside, puffing and blowing with his exertions.
Yea, yonder's the brave lad who had no qualms at the flash of a good Toledo in a knight's fist. How now, my nevvy! Is not my daughter's nevvy mine?" "Save your knighthood!" said Smallbones. "Who would have looked to see you here, Sir John? Methought you were in the Emperor's service!" "A stout man-at-arms is of all services," returned Fulford.
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