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It was useless to seek further information from such a source, so the girl abandoned the attempt, and dismissed the pig-headed housekeeper to her work, work which she felt she was far better suited to than such a delicate operation as the straightening out a wardrobe. When Mrs.
If they were at once pig-headed and hot-blooded and suspicious, they were also warm-hearted and willing to atone for a mistake once they were sure of it. No crowd followed Peter on his last journey but one, though the whole Island had swarmed after Tom Hamon.
I'd have run." "So would he, probably, if he hadn't been so mad," chuckled Roy. "You can be awfully brave if you get mad enough!" Then he added more seriously: "Sawyer will get him some day surely, after this." "Oh, Sawyer isn't as bad as he's painted, I guess," replied Harry. "The trouble with Steve is that he's pig-headed or something." "He fancies himself a bit," said Roy.
'Tell Lucy, he said, 'that if she wishes to be miserable for life, she has found the best way! He is a thorough-bred tyrant at heart, pig-headed, and obstinate, and with the very worst temper I ever came across. Not a soul can he feel for, nor admire but himself. His wife will be a perfect slave. I declare I would as soon sell her to Legree.
Why did you not suggest this before?" "You were so what shall I say so obstinate, Sir Percy?" "Call it pig-headed, my dear Monsieur Chambertin," retorted Blakeney gaily, "truly you would oblige me." "In any case you, sir, were acting in direct opposition to your own interests."
"I was near forgetting it, I confess; but I was so upset, so put out, at your cursed obstinacy. Why will you persist in keeping in the background? Accept this promotion, and you shall have a commission before the year is out." "I do not want a commission; I am perfectly happy as I am." "Was there ever such a pig-headed fellow? Come, Hyde, be persuaded."
"I think that it was the third day after the miner's departure, that I was sitting in my office, making out a few records that were to be sent to Melbourne, when, to my surprise, one of the pig-headed follows presented himself before me. I should hardly have known him, he was so changed.
Just at the last moment, when the breath wasn't much more than left in him, he signed a will, making away half the estate, just as you say, to my sister. Blake could have broke the will, only he was so d pig-headed and stupid. It's too late now, I suppose?"
I made some laughing allusion to pig-headed customers, and the clerk at once opened up on the "fool" who thought one cartridge was better than another. When the young man was back at his stove I started out to sell Tucker a bill.
But they're allays so pig-headed, is folk fra' a distance.
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