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'I wonder you aren't ashamed of yourselves, and the family in such trouble! Downright owdacious! 'Be this your house? said Tom, stepping before Charlotte, his dejection giving way instantly to rude independence. 'Oh, very well, said Martha, with dignity. 'I know what to expect from such sort of people.
Stout as a buffalo an' as to looks I'd call him, as ye might say, real copasetic." Mrs. Lukins expressed this opinion solemnly and with a slight cough. Its last word stood for nothing more than an indefinite depth of meaning. She added by way of drawing the curtain of history: "I'll bet he didn't dilly dally long when he made up his mind. I reckon he were plum owdacious."
Therefore he knocked, softly at first, but louder and louder until at length the door was plucked suddenly open and a woman appeared, a slatternly creature who bore a candle none too steadily. "Now then, owdacious," she began, somewhat slurring of speech. "What d'ye want this time o' night knocking at 'spectable door of a person?" "Is Mr. Barrymaine in?"
"Well! the owdacious!" exclaimed Mrs Bowldler in a kind of hysterical titter, snatching at her bodice somewhere over the region of her heart. Fancy paid no heed to her. "Only we must make a runaway match of it," she went on, "for there's no time to lose, it seems." For answer Palmerston burst into a flood of tears. "There now!" Mrs Bowldler of a sudden became serious.
But the reappearance of this particular story in such remote times and places, and with such marked similarities and variations, would entitle it to a place among the indestructible popular legends collated by Mr. Baring-Gould in his Curious Myths of the Middle Ages. "Metildy, you are the most good-for-nothin', triflin', owdacious, contrary piece that ever lived."
Dey jes advanced fur enough along to show white ambition an' nigger principle! An' dat's a dange'ous mixture! "An' Frances ? She ain't got no mo' principle 'n a suck-aig dorg! Ever sence we 'ranged dat Easter programme, she been studyin' up some owdacious way to outdo me to-day in de face of eve'ybody. "But I'm jes one too many fur any yaller freckled-faced nigger.
Thomas Marvel, with his head on one side regarding them distastefully; "and which is the ugliest pair in the whole blessed universe, I'm darned if I know!" "H'm," said the Voice. "I've worn worse in fact, I've worn none. But none so owdacious ugly if you'll allow the expression. I've been cadging boots in particular for days. Because I was sick of them. They're sound enough, of course.
Owing to the death of the near-by minister in the late storm, they had to travel a considerable distance in order to begin life according to Marg's strict ideas of propriety. Before leaving she had impressed upon her father the necessity of his keeping a clear head in her absence. "We-all may be gone days, father," she had said, "and yo' certainly do drop in owdacious places when you're drunk.
'If I've had enough of it, Louie put in, as a saving clause, luckily just too late to be heard by the nurse, who had sulkily closed the door behind her, declaring that 'sich an owdacious chit she never saw in her born days, and niver heerd on one oather. David and Barbier went back into the shop to talk, leaving Louie to her nursing.
They get owdacious in this weather, and they do plague me cruel." "I'll keep them off you, uncle," said Norah. "Eh, but it's fine! This sunshine makes me think o' the glory to come. You might read me a bit o' the Bible, lass. I find it wonderful soothing." "What part would you like, uncle?" "Oh, them wars." "The wars?" "Aye, keep to the wars! Give me the Old Testament for choice.
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