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"Mrs Harris, ma'am," I says, "not much, it's true, but more than you suppoge. Our calcilations, ma'am," I says, "respectin' wot the number of a family will be, comes most times within one, and oftener than you would suppoge, exact." "Sairey," says Mrs Harris, in a awful way, "Tell me wot is my indiwidgle number." "No, Mrs Harris," I says to her, "ex-cuge me, if you please.
I'd have faced a Court-Martial of Inquiry respectin' my conduct in the Field. For my wife has a kind heart and a keen sense of honour, and rather than bring harm upon Miss Mildare that was, or anyone connected with her, she'd have stood up to be shot! By G !" trumpeted Bingo, "I know she would!" Saxham's face was blue-white now, and looked oddly shrunken.
Old Cap'n Brown was a good stout, stocky kind o' John Bull sort o' fellow, and a good judge o' sperits, and allers kep' the best in them are cupboards o' his'n; but, fust and last, things in his house went pretty much as old Quassia said. "Folks got to kind o' respectin' Quassia.
Night on the prairies. Night, with a great herd of cattle to be looked after. The cowboys rode slowly around the immense herd, singing their own peculiar songs. Some claimed that the cattle were quieter if they heard singing. "Though th' way some of those fellers howl is enough t' give any self- respectin' cow critter th' nightmare," declared Pocus Pete. "Go on!
So I says respectin' widders, Sammy, and so you'll say, ven you gets as old as me. 'I ought to ha' know'd better, I know, said Sam. 'Ought to ha' know'd better! repeated Mr. Weller, striking the table with his fist.
Weller, accosting his son on the morning after the funeral, 'I've found it, Sammy. I thought it wos there. 'Thought wot wos there? inquired Sam. 'Your mother-in-law's vill, Sammy, replied Mr. Weller. 'In wirtue o' vich, them arrangements is to be made as I told you on, last night, respectin' the funs. 'Wot, didn't she tell you were it wos? inquired Sam. 'Not a bit on it, Sammy, replied Mr.
'In that 'ere little compliment respectin' the want of hock'erdness in ladies, Sammy, replied his father. 'You don't think she's fallen in love with you in consekens o' that, do you? said Sam. 'More unlikelier things have come to pass, my boy, replied Mr. Weller in a hoarse whisper; 'I'm always afeerd of inadwertent captiwation, Sammy.
"Down in your heart, you can't help admirin' her for this: we can't help respectin' the one who advocates the right, the true, even if they are our conquerors. "Wimmen hain't angels: now, to be candid, you know they hain't. They hain't better than men. Men are considerable likely; and it seems curious to me, that they should act so in this one thing.
'Well, I'm agreeable to do it, said Sam, 'but not if you go cuttin' away like that, as the bull turned round and mildly observed to the drover ven they wos a goadin' him into the butcher's door. The fact is, sir, said Sam, addressing me, 'that he wants to know somethin' respectin' that 'ere lady as is housekeeper here. 'Ay. What is that?
When he said anything important, in private life, he mostly wound it up with this form of words, and they was generally the last thing he said to me at night afore he went to bed. He had what I consider a fine mind a poetic mind. His ideas respectin his property never come upon him so strong as when he sat upon a barrel- organ and had the handle turned.
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