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Updated: June 9, 2025
"I'm prenticed!" said Jasper, though in a very weak little voice. "Have you had bite or sup?" asked Kit.
Two thousand a year without debt or drawback except the little love-child, indeed; aye, I had forgot her; but she may be 'prenticed out at a small cost, and then what does it signify?
Because it is as much his fault as mine, that I have become a good-for-nothing loafer. I don't say it to screen myself; but it is the truth. When I was 'prenticed to him as a lad, I was all heart and ardor, and so bent upon work, that I used to take my shirt off to my task, which, by the way, was the reason that I was first called Sleepinbuff. Well!
But it won't come off," he added dejectedly, "things like that never do." "But it will," persisted Christopher impatiently, "just as my going to Dusseldorf is coming off." "You don't get 'prenticed for nothing," was the faithless rejoinder. Christopher joggled the boat and shouted: "You sinner, if you won't take my word for it I'll smash you." "All right keep cool, I'm only having you on, Chris.
"That he will!" said Joan, but Mrs. Tregenza shook her head. "I did sadly want en to be a landsman an' 'prenticed to some good body in bizness. It's runnin' 'gainst dreams as I had 'fore the bwoy was born, an' the voice I heard speakin' by night arter I were churched by the Luke Gosp'lers. But you knaw Michael. What's dreams to him, nor yet voices?"
He minds me precisely of Hugh ere he was 'prenticed to the weapon-smith, and all became bitterness." "Ah, truly," said Christina, raising her eyes "all would become bitterness with my Ebbo were I to give a father's power to one whom he would not love."
He said he wanted to make a gentleman of me, but you can't do it, and I'd better be 'prenticed to a shoemaker, same as lots of boys have been." Helen said nothing, but looked at the boy with a troubled gaze, as she wondered whether her father's plan was possible. "You had better go out in the garden again, Dexter," she said after a time.
W'en I wuz young I us'ter b'long ter Marse Bob Smif, down in ole Missoura. I wuz bawn down dere. Wen I wuz a gal I wuz married ter a man named Jim. But Jim died, an' after dat I married a merlatter man named Sam Taylor. Sam wuz free-bawn, but his mammy and daddy died, an' de w'ite folks 'prenticed him ter my marster fer ter work fer 'im 'tel he wuz growed up.
'Answer the captain instantly, cried Hugh, beating his hat down on his head; 'why don't you ever tell what trade you're of? 'I'm of as gen-teel a calling, brother, as any man in England as light a business as any gentleman could desire. 'Was you 'prenticed to it? asked Mr Tappertit. 'No. Natural genius, said Mr Dennis. 'No 'prenticing. It come by natur'. Muster Gashford knows my calling.
Because it is as much his fault as mine, that I have become a good-for-nothing loafer. I don't say it to screen myself; but it is the truth. When I was 'prenticed to him as a lad, I was all heart and ardor, and so bent upon work, that I used to take my shirt off to my task, which, by the way, was the reason that I was first called Sleepinbuff. Well!
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