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"He only thought he saw a chance to be kind of funny and please Judge Pike. The Judge has always thought Joe was a no-account " "Ain't he right?" cried Mr. Arp. "I don't say he ain't." Squire Buckalew cast a glance at Mr. Brown, the clerk, and, perceiving that he was listening, added, "The Judge always IS right!" "Yes, sir!" said Colonel Flitcroft.
"She'll have to eat pretty soon or give up." Douglas followed Judith into the kitchen. "She hasn't eaten a pound since I caught her." "Poor little thing!" exclaimed Judith. At supper Douglas gave the details of the hunt, which were greeted by the family with considerable hilarity. "One no-account horse to show for a week's hard work!" laughed John. But Douglas was not perturbed.
The soil, yellow, shallow and stony, was tilled, in Hugh's time, by a race of long gaunt men who seemed as exhausted and no-account as the land on which they lived. They were chronically discouraged, and the merchants and artisans of the town were in the same state.
Thus she is ready to the hand of the Continental fortune seeker masquerading as a nobleman occasionally but not often the black sheep of some noble family carrying not a bona fide but a courtesy title the count and the no-account, the lord and the Lord knows who!
"Don't blubber, Lou," said the boy, chidingly; "in that case your dago friend is as well off as need be. But I suppose you're afraid the no-account Count won't figure his life is worth thirty thousand dollars. It does seem like an awful price to pay for a foreigner." "It isn't that," said Louise, striving to control her emotion. "He says he hates to be robbed.
"On that t'other chap, I mean? Didn't he look like a reg'lar no-account to you? And say, Ase, didn't he remind you of somebody you'd seen somewheres kind of, in a way?" They walked home in a dazed state, asking unanswerable questions and making profitless guesses. But Asaph's final remark seemed to sum up the situation. "There's trouble comin' of this, Bailey," he declared.
The matter-of-fact way in which his companion accepted the estimate of his insignificance was humiliating. Jed did not blame him, it was true, of course, but the truth hurt a little. He was ashamed of himself for feeling the hurt. "Oh," he drawled, "I do have some things little no-account things to decide every once in a while.
"He ain't a man, he's a boy; young Will Barnes," amended the coroner. "Most people think he's just a lazy, no-account young feller, but I've always said he was growin'. Goes fishin' a good deal, of course, but There he goes, now!" He ran to the door, through the glass of which he had seen a tall, lanky youth across the way. "Hi, Will!" he yelled, "come over, the New York man is waiting!"
"You're making fun of me" Donna charged. "I'm not. Can't a low-down, no-account man like me even laugh where there's happiness? Why, if that young feller goes to work an' spoils it all by kickin' the bucket, I'd die o' grief." "You know him, do you not?" "I should say so." "Is he " "Yes, he's the nicest kind of a boy." "How old is he!" "Twenty-eight." Donna was thoughtful.
I suppose he knows the editor. He's always knowing the editors of little, no-account magazines and having to sit up nights to do them cover-designs or something; and then they send him their magazines." "But I mean you haven't told any one?" stammered Betty. Madeline shook her head. "It wouldn't make a pretty story, do you think?"
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