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Miss Pritty was a good soul, but weak. She was Edgar Berrington's maiden aunt of an uncertain age on the mother's side. Her chief characteristic was delicacy delicacy of health, delicacy of sentiment, delicacy of intellect general delicacy, in fact, all over. She was slight too slightly made, slightly educated, slightly pretty, and slightly cracked.
Macey, "It does make her look funny, though partly like a short-necked bottle wi' a long quill in it. Hey, by jingo, there's the young Squire leading off now, wi' Miss Nancy for partners! There's a lass for you! like a pink-and-white posy there's nobody 'ud think as anybody could be so pritty.
Becase he is a rogue you think he is an Irishman! By the holy carpenter you need not come to Ireland for that kind of ware! You have a viry pritty breed of rogues of your own! But he is not Irish. He is one of your own sulky English bugs. The description was not inapplicable, for I think I never beheld a more lowering, black-browed, evil-eyed fellow, since the hour I first saw light.
"Surely that quality, or capacity of interference, proves them to be not utterly useless," said Edgar, "for does it not give occasion for the exercise of patience and forbearance?" "Ah!" replied Miss Pritty, with an arch smile, shaking her finger at her nephew, "you are a fallacious reasoner. Do you know what that means?
The result, as described by an enthusiastic British diarist, was that 'she affoard'd a very pritty prospect while she was floating down the River, every now & then sending up Sky rackets, firing of Cannon or bursting of Shells, & so continued till She disappear'd in the Channell.
Let us see who made it, and show him how much loss it causes us, and give him a pritty good scolding. 'No, said Taylor, 'he ought to be discharged; d n him, he ain't fit to be around a store; if we owe him anything pay him up, and let him go; it will be a lesson to the rest.
"I'm of the opinion," remarked the sagacious Terry, "that Deerfut sint us on ahead last night so as to git us out uv the way; thim pritty legs of his can travel so fast that he wanted a chance to stritch the same without waitin' fur us."
"Seein' like-es-how her partner vamoosed, she grabbed me to do the Grand March with her. Mebbe it w'ar the way Ah danced, that took her fancy. But whatever it w'ar, she's ben locooed after me sence that night. "Now, John, yuh know Sary ain't no prize-winner fer looks, en Ah knows a good looker when Ah seez one, cuz Ah hev sat and seen lots of pritty gals on the movie sheet in Oak Crick. Gosh!
"He's not exactly hairy all over," said Dick after a moment's thought, "though it can't be denied he's got plenty of hair on his head and chin like me. As for his looks, lad, it ain't easy to say whether he's ugly or pritty, for men don't agree on sich pints, d'ye see?" "Do sit down beside me, Dick, and tell me about this Wild Man," said March earnestly.
Excuse this shabby scrawl, and the trouble I ask you to take, and believe me to be your loving nephew, Edgar Berrington." Miss Pritty was a prompt little woman. Instead of finishing her tea she postponed that meal to an indefinite season, threw on her bonnet and shawl, and left her humble abode abruptly.
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