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We had one, once, in the Mary Ann, that came aboard with gold spectacles on. And besides, he was rigged out from main truck to keelson in the nobbiest clothes that ever saw a fo'castle. He had a chestful, too: cloaks, and broadcloth coats, and velvet vests; everything swell, you know; and didn't the saltwater fix them out for him? I guess not!

Undertaking? why it's the dead-surest business in Christendom, and the nobbiest. 'Why, just look at it. A rich man won't have anything but your very best; and you can just pile it on, too pile it on and sock it to him he won't ever holler. And you take in a poor man, and if you work him right he'll bust himself on a single lay-out. Or especially a woman. F'r instance: Mrs.

'Oh no, he would answer unconcernedly. 'Why should they envy us, and what can they say? 'Not any harm, of course, Elfride replied, 'except such as this: "How happy those two are! she is proud enough now." What makes it worse, she continued in the extremity of confidence, 'I heard those two cricketing men say just now, "She's the nobbiest girl on the boat."

Sir Leicester Dedlock, Baronet, don't you say a word nor yet stir. There'll be no noise and no disturbance at all. I'll come back in the course of the evening, if agreeable to you, and endeavour to meet your wishes respecting this unfortunate family matter and the nobbiest way of keeping it quiet.

Undertaking? why it's the dead-surest business in Christendom, and the nobbiest. 'Why, just look at it. A rich man won't have anything but your very best; and you can just pile it on, too pile it on and sock it to him he won't ever holler. And you take in a poor man, and if you work him right he'll bust himself on a single lay-out. Or especially a woman. F'r instance: Mrs.

Take your hat, because it is your hat after all; its nap rubbed all off by the bark, dears, and its brim not the least bit curled; but for old sakes' sake it is still, dears, the nobbiest tile in the world."

They stepped out on the sidewalk, and Col. Jim called a stylish barouche. But Col. Jack said: "No, sir! None of your cheap-John turn-outs for me. I'm here to have a good time, and money ain't any object. I mean to have the nobbiest rig that's going. Now here comes the very trick. Stop that yaller one with the pictures on it don't you fret I'll stand all the expenses myself." So Col.

I told her that too. The woman was silent for a moment, and then, with a thickening of the husky voice, she said: "S'pose you'll say I'm a bleedin' liar, but I 'ad a kid as putty as that onct puttier. It was a boy. The nobbiest little b as you ever come acrost. Your'n is putty, but it ain't in it with my Billie, not by a long chalk." I asked her what had become of her child.

They stepped out on the sidewalk, and Col. Jim called a stylish barouche. But Col. Jack said: "No, sir! None of your cheap-John turn-outs for me. I'm here to have a good time, and money ain't any object. I mean to have the nobbiest rig that's going. Now here comes the very trick. Stop that yaller one with the pictures on it don't you fret I'll stand all the expenses myself." So Col.