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Paul, but my pretty she turned white like one of them plaster stateys as boys sell cheap in the streets, and ses she, she ses, 'Oh Paul' if you'll forgive me mentioning your name, sir, without perliteness." "Bless her, my darling. Did she think of me," said Beecot, tenderly. "Ah, when do she not think of you, sir?
George gits in dat creek, dey's got ter be a merakel come 'bout ef he gits out." He stood in the road a moment longer, still scratching his head as if puzzled. Then he addressed himself indignantly. "Looky yer, nigger, w'at you stan'in' yer fer? Whar yo' manners, whar yo' perliteness?"
Might ask him, fur perliteness sake, to take fust pick uv lots in a new buryin' ground; but then Perkins died last week, yur know." "Say somethin', somebody," commanded the colonel, and as he spoke his eyes alighted on Slim Sam, who obediently stepped out to greet the newcomer. "Mister," said Sam, producing a plug of tobacco, "hev a chaw?"
"And ye want to treat 'em with some perliteness, too they're older'n anything 'round here 'cept the rocks; and they've been holdin' up the dignity of this valley, too, kind o' 'sponsible for things. That's another thing ye mustn't forgit. The fust folks that come travellin' through this notch 'bout time the Injins quit, took notice on 'em, I tell ye. That's what they come for.
I stan's by dem ohduhs while dere's bref in my ol' body." Holton was infuriated. "It's lucky for you I'm not your master!" "Dat's what I t'ink, suh." "If you was my nigger, I'd teach you perliteness with a black-snake whip! I'll see what Layson'll say to such sass as you've gin me. Jest you wait till you hear from him." Neb was not impressed by the man's wrath. "Huhd from him afoah, suh.
"I think," he said, faintly, "I had the privilege of cutting your 'air the other evening." "You did, my friend, and I admired your taste for the fine arts. This gentleman and I have, on talking it over, been so struck by what I saw that evening, that we ventured to call and inquire into it." "Look 'ere, Count," said his companion, "there ain't time for all that perliteness.
But the old man never budged; and again the "devil's-horse" braved an unrighteous fate with a stoicism worthy of a better cause. "Young feller," said Mr. Barlow, after several moments' cogitation, "you ain't never treated me with the perliteness and respect as is due from a boy yer age t' his elders and betters.
"He's ez hard-headed, an' tyrannical, an' perverse, an' cantankerous a critter ez ever lived, with no feelin's, nor softness, nor perliteness in him but he's a square man. He'll do the fair thing every time," the coroner said in explanation. And so he braced himself for another term of official wrangling. Poor Theodosia!
'Oh! he asked us to go to the terminus station with him and see his young men; but my wife wanted to see things, and we jest went as fur as the door, out of perliteness. 'And when did you discover that you had been swindled?
He went up in a great 'urry one afternoon when he knowed she was out, he knowed it, 'cos I told 'im as 'ow I'd seen her gallopin' by on that mare of hers which, they calls Cleopatra-an' away 'e run like a March 'are, an' he ups to the Manor and down again, an' sez he, laughin' like: 'I've done my dooty by the lady' sez he 'I've left my card! That was three days ago, an' there ain't been no return o' the perliteness up to the present "
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