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I don't know the value of the critters; but I ain't altogether a reg'lar, soft-headed, know-nothin' fool; and if I had a mind to part with this 'ere splendiferous animal, I should want boot." "You're a hard one," said the major; "but as fur as twenty dollars " "Twenty dollars! get out," said the agent, indignantly. "G'lang, Bob!" and he actually started his team. "Hold on!" roared the major.
But Hank, he learnt a little blacksmithing when he was growing up, cause he liked to tinker around and to show how stout he was. Then, when he married Elmira Appleton, he had to go to work practising that perfession reg'lar, because he never learnt nothing about farming.
For three days the Countess Zecchi shows up reg'lar, drapes herself in pink tulle, and Hallam paints away enthusiastic. Then she don't come any more. For a week she stalls him off and finally tells him flat that posing as Psyche bores her. Besides, she's just starting south on a yachting party. The portrait? Oh, she doesn't care about that.
My head does ache terribly." "Well, child, you go up there now, anyhow, and Katy'll see what her big head can do." The quick-witted woman got out of her suit and into her slipshod shoes and went straight to Mrs. Middleton. "That Mis' Moss flew right off, ma'am forgot somethin' she had to do in New York, it seems, and off she goes. Them Westerners, you know, is reg'lar globe-trotters.
Bessie is very much a woman, thought Dick; and he looked at her between half-shut eyes. Food and rest had transformed the girl, as Dick knew they would. 'What are you looking at me like that for? she said quickly. 'Don't. You look reg'lar bad when you look that way. You don't think much o' me, do you? 'That depends on how you behave. Bessie behaved beautifully.
How old Swinney come to hold off so was that she used to pay the cuss ten dollars or so ev'ry six months 'n git no credit fer it, an' no receipt an' no witniss, 'n he knowed the prop'ty was improving all the time. He may have had another reason, but at any rate he let her run, and got the shave reg'lar.
"No," said Seth quickly, with that sense of fairness to his fellow man which most women find it so difficult to understand. "No and he probably won't mention the word 'card' while he's here." "Well?" said Mrs. Rivers interrogatively. "And," continued Seth, seeing that the objection was not pressed, "he's one of them desprit men! A reg'lar fighter! Killed two or three men in dools!" Mrs.
Father Pedro drew back with a gesture of dignity. The stranger, however, laid his hand upon the Padre's sleeve with the air of a man anticipating objection, but never refusal, and went on. "Of course, I know. You want me to come at some other time, and in THERE. You want it in the reg'lar style. That's your way and your time. My answer is: it ain't MY way and MY time.
I'll be damned if I believe, if the Lord Almighty spoke to him from on high, and told him to, he'd do it, an' I'm goin' to prove that I don't believe it. I'll tell ye all what I'll do. Lawyer Means is here, an' he can take it down in black an' white, if he wants to, an' I'll sign it reg'lar an' have it witnessed.
'Ay, she's noane forgotten it, and has done her five stitches a day, bless her; and a dunnot believe as yo' know her again. She's Phoebe Moorsom, and a'm Hannah, and a've dealt at t' shop reg'lar this fifteen year. 'I'm very sorry, said Philip. 'I was up late last night, and I'm a bit dazed to-day.
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