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But, I say, Dick saving your pardon for being familiar," he added, "there's the small matter to be thought on in the case, and that is, it was not Injuns, but rale right-down Christian men that brought the younker to the tug. It's a bad business for white men, and it makes me feel oncomfortable." "Pooh," said the other, with an air of contemptuous commiseration, "you are growing sentimental.
Other troops followed, the works were destroyed, and the intrenching tools carried into the fort. General Greene, advancing with his whole army, arrived only in time to see the last of the sallying party re-enter the village. "I call that a right-down good beginning," Peter Lambton said, in great exultation. "There's nothing like hitting a hard blow at the beginning of the fight.
She sinks back in her chair as if overcome, and presses her perfumed handkerchief to her face. "What's the matter with it?" asks Tita, a little smartly, perhaps. "It's a right-down good word, in my opinion. I've heard lots of people use it." "No doubt you have," says her mother-in-law. "Well, so have you, I dare say!" says Tita. "I expect we all have," says Margaret Knollys, laughing.
I've seen these sharp, tricky ones right-down flinch and quail when there was a nice, quiet-behaved woman in the room, and she just fixed her eye steady and clear-like on them and showed she'd took in every word and was like to remember. You know what I mean, Ann; you've got that look in your own eye." She had. The various persons who interviewed Mr.
You can't soften their hearts, for they haven't such a thing about them; but only just you open your mouth and speak your mind in right-down earnest, and you will shame them into treating us openly like human beings, let them hate us and scorn us at bottom as they will. We have no friend here, sir, but you, not one; have pity on us! have pity on us!"
"Poor fellow! he richly deserves to suffer, and I hope it may make him better, for I am right-down sorry for him; it must be so dreadful to lose one we love; but it was too base in him to let his father try to compel her to have him.
"You are not nervous, Miss Hutchinson?" the duke suggested. "About Mr. Temple Barholm? I couldn't be, your Grace. If I was to see two policemen bringing him in handcuffed I shouldn't be nervous. I should know the handcuffs didn't belong to him, and the policemen would look right-down silly to me." Miss Alicia fluttered over to fold her in her arms. "Do let me kiss you," she said.
'Poor Mith Ward, said little Ger, 'all-bodies would have headaches if naughty Jus throwed books at them! 'Ger, Ger, exclaimed Miss Ward; while up started Justin in a fury. 'I throw books at Miss Ward; what do you mean, you sneaking little tell-tale? he exclaimed. 'No, you're worse than that, you are a right-down story-teller. 'He's not, said Hec.
'Yer know, Work'us, continued Noah, emboldened by Oliver's silence, and speaking in a jeering tone of affected pity: of all tones the most annoying: 'Yer know, Work'us, it can't be helped now; and of course yer couldn't help it then; and I am very sorry for it; and I'm sure we all are, and pity yer very much. But yer must know, Work'us, yer mother was a regular right-down bad 'un.
The Arab then said some few words to the company generally, which the company generally could make rather less of than if they had been addressed in Chinese. "He's talking no known language under the sun," said Harkaway. "It's my opinion he has got the cheek to talk regular right-down gibberish to us." It was true.
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