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"Something of the kind, I think," rejoins Hamersley, still considering. "Wal, he's wantin' to get on bad enuf now, if the mule 'ud only let him. Say, Frank, shell I put a payriud to their conflict by sendin' a bit o' lead that way, I kin rub the varmint out by jest pressin' my finger on this trigger." "Do you mean the man or the mule?" "The man, in coorse.
The red horse, that's war; ah, how that red horse has tramped round the world! he's left the marks of his hoofs on our own ground not long sen; and now you've been readin' to me about his goin's on elsewhere. The black horse, that's famine; and not downright starvation, the minister said, but just want; grindin' and pressin' people down.
But," he continued, "I ain't pressin' you. Don't much matter to me." The offer came at a psychologically critical moment, when Mr. Gwynne was desperately seeking escape from an intolerable environment. "I shall consult Mrs. Gwynne," he said, "and let you know in a few days." "Don't know as I can wait that long," said Mr. Martin.
Birdie Callahan, who had worked in Ted's mother's kitchen for years, and who had gone back to her old job at the Haley House after her mistress's death, put it sadly, thus: "He was always th' han'some divil. I used to look forward to ironin' day just for the pleasure of pressin' his fancy shirts for him. I'm that partial to them swell blondes. But I dinnaw, he's changed.
"I am going out there," she said, pointing to the farthermost stern where passengers were not encouraged to sit, "and I want to consult you." Markin got up. "If there's anything pressin' on your mind," he said, "you can't do better." Laura said nothing until they were alone with the rushing of the screw, two Lascars, some coils of rope, and the hand-steering gear. Then she opened the packet.
This met with Aunt Melvy's instant disapproval. "For mercy sake, git out ob my way!" she cried, as she squeezed past the ironing-board to get to the stove. "I'll press yer pants, ef you'll jus' take yourself outen de kitchen. Be sure don't burn 'em? Look a-heah, chile; I was pressin' pants 'fore yer paw was wearin' 'em!"
"Eber since I got mah freedum en 'fore I got dis chuch job, I dun all kinds ob odd jobs, waited on tables, pressin' clothes en anyting else dat kum 'long, but sum jobs wuz small pay but hit kep me 'live." "Don't member any slave uprisin's. Our peeple wuz good ter us." INTERVIEW SCOTT MARTIN 438 Fifth Ave., No.
'There's no man, she wad say, whan her father wad be pressin' upo' the subjec', 'there's no mortal man, but yersel', worth the turn o' my ee. An' the father, puir man, was ower weel pleased wi' the flattery to be sae angry wi' her as he wad fain hae luikit.
I had been the female appinted in a private and becomin' female way, to go to Loontown to see the meetin' house there that we heard they had fixed over in a cheap but commojous way. So I persuaded Josiah Allen to take me over to Loontown on this pressin' business, and he gin his consent to go on the condition that we should stop for a visit to Cephas Bodley'ses. Josiah sets store by 'em.
They say she offered to come to him anyway, but he wouldn't hear of it, and no more would he let her wait for him; told her she mustn't grow into an old maid, lonely, and still waitin' for the lightning to strike him that is, his luck to come; and actually advised her to take 'Gene Callender, who'd be'n pressin' pretty close to Mel for her before the engagement.
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