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"If you mean Miss Prentice, I wouldn't speak of her in that fashion, Priscilla." "Mormon Joe's Kate, then, if you like that better," replied Mrs. Pantin, nettled. "Or 'Mormon Joe's Kate, either," curtly. "So sorry; I didn't know you knew her. Do you?" Mr. Pantin, who at his own table was given the privilege of taking bones in his fingers, pointed the chop at her.
He stared at it, at her, and back again incredulously. "Is this a joke?" finally. She shook her head. "Kate Prentice." He shouted at her. "What? You borrowed from her?" "She promised it to me before the the " "You can't keep it." "But, Jap " "I say you can't keep it." "But, Jap " she whimpered. "Do you think I want to be under obligations to that " She put her hand over his mouth.
Of numerous other poets, whose names are familiar to all readers of American literature, a few only can he named; among them are John G.C. Brainerd, James G. Percival, Richard H. Wilde, James G. Brooks, Charles Sprague, Alfred B. Street, T. Buchanan Read, T.B. Aldrich, William Allen Butler, Albert G. Greene, George D. Prentice, William J. Pabodie, Park Benjamin, William Gilmore Simms, John R. Thompson, William Ross Wallace, Charles G. Leland, Thomas Dunn English, William D. Gallagher, Albert Pike, John G, Saxe, James T. Fields, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Cornelius Mathews, John Neal, and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
He still gave God the glory of every thing he did aright: and when Will Simpson one day said to him, "Master, I wish I were half as good as you are." "Hold, William," answered he gravely, "I once read in a book, that the devil is willing enough we should appear to do good actions, if he can but make us proud of them." But we must not forget our other old acquaintance, Mr. Stock's fellow 'prentice.
Then gliding out as before, she again beheld the retreating figure of the 'prentice; again he looked cautiously in at the parlour-door, but this time instead of retreating, he passed in and disappeared. Miggs was back in her room, and had her head out of the window, before an elderly gentleman could have winked and recovered from it.
Yet you observe he had hung back on the verandah while Taniera tried his 'prentice hand upon the locks: and even now, when his true character appeared, the only use he made of the estate was to leave the clothes of his family drying on the fence.
'Without the numbers, sir, that is my name, replied the 'prentice. 'They are merely intended as directions to the washerwoman, and have no connection with myself or family. YOUR name, sir, said Mr Tappertit, looking very hard at his nightcap, 'is Chester, I suppose? You needn't pull it off, sir, thank you. I observe E. C. from here. We will take the rest for granted.
What a life, what a life mine's been, come to think of it! In my young days, I was beaten by a German I was 'prentice to; in the prime of life beaten by my own countrymen, and last of all, in ripe years, see what I have been brought to.... 'Ugh, you flabby soul! said Gavrila Andreitch. 'Why do you make so many words about it? 'Why, do you say, Gavrila Andreitch?
I see plainly in my memory what my prentice eyes saw; and I should never succeed in reproducing with the same accuracy what I saw last week. I know my village thoroughly, though I quitted it so long ago; and I know hardly anything of the towns to which the vicissitudes of life have brought me.
He'll never be of much use to me, now that he is getting too old to be an errand boy; and as just at this time I have a chance of getting a stouter boy for a ''prentice, you can make what you please of him, if you pay me something for his time."
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