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"I don't see how he could be. Who took care of you bound you up?" "That nice-lookin' greaser with the slue foot. Soft speakin' like a woman and an eye like a timber wolf. Some hombre! Where we bound for?" "God knows!" dejectedly. "Bad as that, huh? Your girl?" "No." "No place for a girl. If they hadn't busted my arm I wouldn't care so much! If it comes to a show-down I won't be no good to anybody.
So I went into the pantry to get it, and Aunt Mimy followed me, of course. "Them's nice-lookin' apples," said she. "Come from Stephen's place? Poor young man, he won't never want 'em! S'pose he won't hev no objection ter my tryin' a dozen," and she dropped that number into her great pocket. "Nice-lookin' butter, tew," said she. "Own churnin'? Wal, you kin du sunthin', Emerline.
"That's a nice mess," he grumbled, taking off his coat to examine the tear by the light of the lantern. "Nice-lookin' rag-bag I'll be to get married." "Maybe I can mend it when we get to Bayport," said Miss Parker. "What'll you mend it with pins?" "No, there's a needle and thread in my reticule. Wait till we get to Bayport and then "
They had half an hour off in the afternoon, and were comparing notes. 'Nice-lookin' couple, ain't they, John? said the maid, with the air of an expert. 'I don't know as we've 'ad a better since the spring weddin's. 'I don't know as I'd go as far as that, said the fat waiter critically. ''E'd pass all right. 'E's an upstandin' young man with a good sperrit in 'im.
Let him look out for himself, says I." He paused for a moment, and then eyeing the other to note the effect of his next words, he continued, "But we might take the woman. It would be a shame to leave a nice-lookin' piece like she is in such a Gott-forsaken hole as this here island." Schmidt looked up and grinned. "So that's how she's blowin', is it?" he asked.
"And she walks off down the hall, coverin' her face with her hands and cryin' as if her heart was broke. "'There! there! says Simeon, runnin' after her, all shook up. He's a kind-hearted man especially to nice-lookin' females. 'Don't act so, he says. 'Be a good girl. Come right back into the settin' room and tell me all about it. Me and Cap'n Baker ain't got nerves, and we ain't rich, neither.
He had to go up to Town that morning on Forsyte affairs, and was fully conscious of Gradman's glance sidelong over his spectacles. The old clerk had about him an aura of regretful congratulation. He smelled, as it were, of old days. One could almost hear him thinking: "Mr. Jolyon, ye-es just my age, and gone dear, dear! I dare say she feels it. She was a nice-lookin' woman. Flesh is flesh!
But both men had the same impression of a pleasant-faced young woman sitting erect behind Jonathan Webb, the decrepit driver of the wagonette, and looking straight at them as they passed her. There was a general effect of youth and bright colour; of pale brown hair, too, over very dark eyes. "Aye, she be quite nice-lookin'," said Batts, with unction, "rayther uncommon.
She's a bright, nice-lookin' woman, almost han'some; an' her little girls are, too; about your age they be. An' " I suppose the lonely prairie life had made Ma fond of talking, without much regard for her audience. Often have I heard her for an hour at a time steadily whispering away to herself.
But it's noan sich a nice-lookin' thin for a church that isn't! Th' little lass wur i'th parlour at th' same time; an' hoo said, 'Yes. See yo, mother. I'm sure it's right. You must turn this here handle; and then it'll play. I seed a man playin' one yesterday; an' he had a monkey with him, dressed like a soldier. 'Keep thy little rootin' fingers off that organ, said Betty.
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