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Updated: June 16, 2025
It wor right-down beautiful tay; so I has another one to the hilth of Bridget's husband the sarjint, an' thin another, that wor a little one faith! to the hilth of the babby; an', begorrah, sor, I rimimbers no more till this mornin' whin I fales so bad wid the rheumatics as I couldn't lift me hid out of me hammock.
Hartrick was already beginning to understand his Irish relatives; and as to Stephanotie, she sprang from the carriage, rushed up the steps, and thrust a huge box of bon-bons into Squire O'Shanaghgan's face. "I am an American girl," she said; "but I guess that, whether one is Irish or American, one likes a right-down good sweetheart.
"Boys, boys!" she called in a high, quavering voice, "don't shoot the blue jays. It does beat all how right-down destructive all boys are, anyway shooting poor, harmless little birds for sport." The jays, on hearing the familiar voice of their benefactress, began to alight in twos and threes close by, and approved her every word with as much vigor as their tiny throats could command.
If he'd asked me alone, I'd have risked it, just to see how they manage their shows over here; but he's too proper to take me without a chaperon, and ... Well, anyway, the Moffatts are right-down good to me, and I'll have no hand in having them snubbed! Miss Briskett will politely refuse, and the party won't have a chance of accepting, for they won't be told anything about it. I hate a fuss."
Here, with only three European companions, by moral and intellectual force alone, he succeeded in suppressing piracy and civil war among the natives and opened a trade with the interior of Borneo which promises great advantages to England. . . . Everybody here has the INFLUENZA a right-down influenza, that sends people to their beds.
"I never seemed to think of Louis XIV.," she said, "as a man. He seems to me always like a set of furniture, or a wall decoration, or at most a costume." "Now you'ye hit it," said Paul; "Louis XIV. was, at most, a costume; and a right-down handsome costume, too. I wish we fellows could dress like that nowadays."
'That I won't What I want you to do now is to read what I've marked in those books. You mustn't tire your eyes, you know; there's plenty of time. 'I will read all you wish me to, and think over it as much as I can. 'Then you're a right-down good girl, and if I don't think myself a lucky man, I ought to.
If you'll just let me keep notes for you and remember things and answer your letters, and just make calculations you're too busy to attend to, I should feel right-down happy, Father." "Eh!" he said relievedly, "tha art like thy mother." "That would make me happy if there was nothing else to do it," said Ann, smoothing his shoulder. "You're her girl," he said, warmed and supported.
Is William Coulson a Quaker, by which a mean a Friend? 'Yes; they're all on 'em right-down good folk. 'Deary me! What a wonder yo' can speak to such sinners as Sylvia and me, after keepin' company with so much goodness, said Molly, who had not yet forgiven Philip for doubting Kinraid's power of killing men. 'Is na' it, Sylvia? But Sylvia was too highly strung for banter.
Cecil thought himself dreaming still. "You! You had my orders?" "Yes, sir, I had your orders," murmured the ex-soldier, more confused than he had ever been in the whole course of his audacious life, "and they was the first I ever disobeyed they was. You see, sir, they was just what I couldn't swallow nohow that's the real, right-down fact! Send me to the devil, Mr.
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