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Due respec', Brother Scotton no lawyering none of that of them functions 'specially when it's infidels and ricks may be afire aught I know." Mr. Broad interposed. He quite understood Brother Bushel's ardour for the truth, but he was prepared to produce some simple corroboration of what he had affirmed, which would, he thought, satisfy Brother Scotton and the brethren generally. "Thomas," quoth Mr.
As the darky entered, one of the clerks happened to be passing the rail, and he exclaimed: "Well, Thomas Jefferson, what do you want here?" "Ah come to get my pay. Ah done been discharged." "You discharged?" repeated the other incredulously. "That's what, and by the 'old man' hisself." "Why?" "For not treating this hyar gemmen wid de respec' Mr.
"I got caught on a jury in a criminal case with him wunst," Silas Boyd, a heavy, thick-set, tall young fellow with a belligerent eye and a portentously square jaw, said sotto voce to his next comrade. "I hev sarved on a jury with him, locked up fur a week 'thout no verdic'. He ain't got no respec' fur no other man's say-so.
Natheless, he aye carriet himsel' like ane 'at cud lay doon the law o' this warl', an cleemt no sma' consideration; yet was there never sign or mark o' the proper fundation for sic assumption o' the richt to respec'.
Snipe grovelled in still farther behind my legs. "There 's got to be something done!" cried Lunette. "Folks's got to learn 't the United States Governmunt is a awful an' a solemn an' a turrible thing. What ef it sh'd be told 't we hadn't no more respec' for her down here to the Basin 'n to soak her through with strawberry jam an' molarsses!
"Mebbe we're a little alike in that respec'," Captain Leezur assured him deliciously; "'cept 't he ain't nigh so ongodly as I use' ter be." "I don' know," said Captain Pharo. "I have worked sometimes, Sundays poo! poo! hohum! but not 'less 'twas somethin' 'mportant, gettin' in hay or somethin' like that. And I have poo! poo! hohum!
"Please, please, don't repeat any more of these horrible things," cried the girl, for the strain was becoming unbearable. "I agree with you, miss. They aren't fit to be spoke of; an' I say, with all due respec', that they shouldn't be allowed to leak out. You know what young maid servants are like. They're bound to chatter.
"You're right, Jacob; you're judgment was always sound, but, you see, I was forced to do it slick off because the parson won't wait another day, an' I'd like to have it done all ship-shape, for I've a respec' for the parsons, you see. A man who's come straight down from the Pilgrim Fathers, like me, behoves to act discreetly so, the weddin's to be this evenin'."
"In a cauld how, far amo' the hills, whaur the winter was a sair thing, there leevit an honest couple, a man 'at had a gey lot o' sheep, an' his wife fowk weel aff in respec' o' this warl's gear, an' luikit up til amo' the neebours, but no to be envyed, seein' they had lost a' haill bonny faimily, ane efter the ither, till there was na ane left i' the hoose but jist ae laddie, the bonniest an' the best o' a', an' as a maitter o' coorse, the verra aipple o' their e'e.
In short, it is rumoured that de Vallorbes is not a conspicuous example of the wildly happy husband." "In short, she is not respec " But the young man held up his hands and cried out feelingly: "Don't, pray don't, my dear Louisa. Let us walk delicately as Agag my father's morning ministrations to the maids again!
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