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"A perwerse one, didn't I tell you?" "Yes, but wherein consisted its perversity? How did it act, you know?" "Ah, its perwersity consisted in drivin' me into town in a market-cart," said Pax. "You must know that my perwerse fate was a uncle. He was a big brute. I don't mean to speak of 'im disrespectfully. I merely give 'im his proper name. He was a market-gardener and kept cows also a pump.
"Once on a time," he continued, sadly, "I dwelt in the country. I was born in the country. I'm a sort o' country gentleman by nature, so to speak, and would have bin revellin' in the country to this day if a perwerse fate hadn't driven me into the town a very perwerse fate indeed." "Indeed?" said Aspel, unable to restrain a laugh at his visitor's old-fashioned ways, "what sort of fate was it?"
'Vell, Sammy, said the father. 'Vell, my Prooshan Blue, responded the son, laying down his pen. 'What's the last bulletin about mother-in-law? 'Mrs. Veller passed a very good night, but is uncommon perwerse, and unpleasant this mornin'. Signed upon oath, Tony Veller, Esquire. That's the last vun as was issued, Sammy, replied Mr. Weller, untying his shawl. 'No better yet? inquired Sam.
Will he who gave me life never call me his, and say, 'My daughter, come to my respect, rest on my heart, and take my name'?" "Poor Virgie!" sighed Mary; "remember we are black! We hardly ever have fathers: they is for white people." "Dog my hide!" mumbled Wonnell, above, "ef a bird ain't a perwerse critter. Purty Roxy won't think I'm smart a bit ef I can't make Tom say 'Roxy, Roxy, Roxy!
Pleasant, looking to her father for permission to reply, that honest man exclaimed with great bitterness: 'Why the devil don't you answer the Captain? You can Poll Parrot enough when you ain't wanted to Poll Parrot, you perwerse jade! Thus encouraged, Pleasant explained that there were only Lizzie, the daughter in question, and the youth. Both very respectable, she added.
'Indeed, said Oliver, looking piteously up into the man's face; 'indeed, I 'Down with it! echoed Toby. 'Do you think I don't know what's good for you? Tell him to drink it, Bill. 'He had better! said Sikes clapping his hand upon his pocket. 'Burn my body, if he isn't more trouble than a whole family of Dodgers. Drink it, you perwerse imp; drink it!
There an't better land in the country than this perwerse lad grazed on, and yet he goes and catches cold and indigestion and what not, and then his friends brings a lawsuit against ME! Now, you'd hardly suppose, added Squeers, moving in his chair with the impatience of an ill-used man, 'that people's ingratitude would carry them quite as far as that; would you?
They won't pass that werdick, they won't pass it, Sammy. And Mr. Weller shook his head with legal solemnity. 'Wot a perwerse old file it is! exclaimed Sam. 'always a-goin' on about werdicks and alleybis and that. Who said anything about the werdick? Mr. Weller made no reply, but once more shook his head most learnedly.
You perwerse creetur! exclaimed one of the vixenish ladies. 'Drive to the 'ouse with the yellow door, cabmin. Upon this the cabman, who in a sudden effort to pull up at the house with the green door, had pulled the horse up so high that he nearly pulled him backward into the cabriolet, let the animal's fore-legs down to the ground again, and paused.
The worthy Mrs Prig replied, with some asperity, 'that if perwerse people went off dead, when they was least expected, it warn't no fault of her'n. And further, 'that it was quite aggrawation enough to be made late when one was dropping for one's tea, without hearing on it again.
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