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In the name and by the authority of the Confederate States of Ameriky I pertest agin this outrage!" yelled Beardsley, hardly knowing what he said in his excitement. "Marcy Gray, aint I always stood your friend and your mother's too, and are you going to keep as dumb as an oyster while this indignity is being put upon your old cap'n? Take the dog-gone things off, I say!
Nature is not democratic, nor limited-monarchical, but despotic, and will not be fooled or abated of any jot of her authority by the pertest of her sons; and as fast as the public mind is opened to more intelligence, the code is seen to be brute and stammering. It speaks not articulately, and must be made to. Meantime the education of the general mind never stops.
I must mourn too! So it plucked out an eye, and going to a corn-merchant's shop, sat on the doorstep and wept. 'Why, little cuckoo! what's the matter? cried Bhagtu the shopkeeper. 'You are generally the pertest of birds, and to-day you are as dull as ditchwater! 'Don't ask me! snivelled the cuckoo; 'it is such terrible grief! such dreadful sorrow! such such horrible pain!
"'Liddy, sais I, 'don't be so pesky starch, I'll be dod fetched if I meant any harm, but you beat me all holler. I only spoke of the calf, and you went a streak higher and talked of the garter. "'Sam, said she, 'you was always the most impedent, forredest, and pertest boy that ever was, and travellin' hain't improved you one mite or morsel.
A sudden crashing of brushwood brought me to a standstill, and sent the blood in columns to my heart. Then I laughed loudly it was only a hare, the prettiest and pertest thing imaginable. I went on. Something whizzed past my face. I drew back in horror it was a bat, merely a bat. My nerves were out of order, the fall had unsteadied them; I must pull myself together.
His hair was long and yellow and hung clustering about his shoulders, for all the world like a schoolgirl's; and he bore himself with as mincing a gait as the pertest of them. Little John clucked his teeth drolly at this sight. "By my troth, a gay bird!" he said echoing the other's words then added, "But not so bad a build for all his prettiness.
"I'll pertest and fight as long as I have breath or strength left in me; and when we have gained our independence, Cap'n Benton, I'll make it my business to see that you suffer for this."
"Look a-here, my good woman," sez he to the young woman with the baby, "as I wuz tellin' you afore, you must do sumpin to keep that child quiet. It 'll never do to keep all these folks awake like this. They 've paid for a good night's sleep, 'nd it 's my duty as a director uv the Han'bul 'nd St. Jo to pertest ag'in' this disturbance.
The lively strain of a white-eyed vireo, pertest of songsters, comes to me from somewhere on my right, and the soft chipping of myrtle warblers is all but incessant. I look up from my paper to see a turkey buzzard sailing majestically northward. I watch him till he fades in the distance.
Mortimer, answered Dolly in her pertest manner; 'and what are you going to give? We should so much like to know. After a moment's hesitation he said, throwing up his chin after the manner of a model sitting for a head of Christ: 'My dear young lady, you must not exhibit your curiosity in that way; it's not modest. 'But do tell us, Mr. Mortimer; you're a person of such good taste.
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