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"It takes a lot o' time, goin' up stream, to get back to our start, an' a cantankerous passenger in as narrow a place as a rowboat would make it mighty onpleasant for me an' this lunkhead, Ike, my nephew. Wouldn't it, Ike?" Ike grinned and nodded. "The passenger that I'm speaking of wouldn't be a passenger altogether," said Colonel Kenton.
He ain't used to bein' so careful an' tender-hearted-like, Brayley ain't." "Just because I'm to work under him, does that mean that in the eye of you men he had a right " An uplifted hand stopped him. "When two men has onpleasant words it ain't up to anybody else to say who's right.
"They'll think we've surrendered and cease firing." "But that would be helping the schooner to escape." "Why, of course, sir," cried Tom, slapping his leg; "that wouldn't do no good. I was only thinking of its being onpleasant to sit here and be shot at by one's own messmates. But it don't matter; they can't hit very often."
Bryce's book, let him at least accept my assurance that the above-mentioned incident seems to the full as extraordinary to the Bostonian as to the Londoner, and that it is just as typical of the habits of the American society girl as the action of Miss Madeleine Smith was of English girls. "Of all the sarse thet I can call to mind, England doos make the most onpleasant kind.
"No, massa, dey ain't bin noffin' onpleasant since den 'twas 'fore den, I'm feared 'twas de berry day you was dare." "How? what do you mean?" "Why, massa, I mean de bug dare now." "The what?" "De bug I'm berry sartain dat Massa Will bin bit somewhere 'bout de head by dat goole-bug." "And what cause have you, Jupiter, for such a supposition?" "Claws enuff, massa, and mouff, too.
"’Ain’t we agreed that it’s best to keep onpleasant family matters from the kids?" He smiled at her bravely. "The remembrance of what we’re anticipatin’ ain’t going to help young Jim to get to Congress when his time comes, nor it ain’t going to help the girls get good husbands, either. This here country ain’t what it was in the way of liberality since it’s got to be a State."
"But, marciful Saver!" he cried out, jumping up on a suddent, "look behind you, your Holiness, I'm blest but the room's on fire!" Sure enough the candle fell down that minit, and was near setting fire to the windy-curtains, and there was some bustle, as you may suppose, getting things put to rights. And now I have to tell you ov a really onpleasant occurrence.
It is mighty onpleasant getting on with women, sometimes, I al'ays hates these yer screechin, screamin' times. They are mighty onpleasant; but, as I manages business, I generally avoids 'em, sir. Now, what if you get the girl off for a day, or a week, or so; then the thing's done quietly, all over before she comes home.
As to the ingen, a nasty, wheezin’, gaspin’, puffin’, bustin’ monster always out o’ breath, with a shiny green and gold back like an onpleasant beetle; as to the ingen as is always a pourin’ out red ’ot coals at night an’ black smoke in the day, the sensiblest thing it does, in my opinion, is ven there’s somethin’ in the vay, it sets up that ’ere frightful scream vich seems to say, ‘Now ’ere’s two ’undred an’ forty passengers in the werry greatest extremity o’ danger, an’ ’ere’s their two ’undred an’ forty screams in vun!’”
Or perhaps," he added laughing, "'stead ob shooting at you, he shoot at me, and dat would be bery onpleasant. In de day-time, a colored pusson make a better mark dan a white man; but in de night we has de advantage. Haw! Haw!" This was a view of things that did not please the constable at all, and the mirth of the negro appealed excessively ill-timed.
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