Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 4, 2025
I demanded. "Dangerous!" Boogles choked warmly on this. "Let me tell you, that old boy is the real Peruvian doughnuts, and no mistake! Some day there won't be so many Chinks round this dump. No, sir-ee! That little cutthroat'll have another notch in his gun." The situation did indeed seem to brim with the cheerfullest promise; yet something told me that Little Sure Shot was too good, too perfect.
I was destined to hear more of this in the evening from the ancient boatman who rowed me out on the upper river. He had been to sea in his day. He knew enough to wonder about this thing, even to indulge in a little superstitious awe about it. "No sir-ee. Something happened to them four chaps. And another thing " I fancied I heard a sea-bird whining in the darkness overhead.
"She may be all right in her way I s'pose she is; but it's too Massachusettsy a way for me. No, sir! I don't like her and I WON'T like her. No, sir-ee, never! She she ain't my kind of a woman," he added stubbornly. "That's what's the matter! She ain't my kind of a woman." "Town meeting" was called for the twenty-first of November.
Phronsie, in his lap, was so busy in putting her face close to his, and telling him that it was really her own poor little girl, that she had failed to see the arms and the disclosures they had made. "Go and get your mother," he said, after a breathing space. "Oh, stay! I can't hold her" with a gesture of disgust. "An' you ain't a-goin' to tetch me," declared Rag proudly; "no, sir-ee!"
"Scared?" questioned Elnora. "Yes sir-ee! Aunt Margaret scared me. May I ask you a question?" "Of course, you may!" "Is that man going to be your beau?" "Billy! No! What made you think such a thing?" "Aunt Margaret said likely he would fall in love with you, and you wouldn't want me around any more. Oh, but I was scared! It isn't so, is it?" "Indeed, no!" "I am your beau, ain't I?"
"They're too soft-hearted," declared Jenny. "I can tell you I wouldn't be so soft-hearted if I were in their place. No, sir-ee, I wouldn't! But they say it isn't his fault that he's there, and that he's nothing but a helpless baby, and so they just take care of him." "Then why don't they feed their own babies first and give him what's left?" demanded Peter.
"There's a dreadful draught anyhow." "Eh? Draught? I don't feel no draught. Course the window's open; it's generally open in summer time, ain't it. Haw, haw!" "There it is again! Where Oh, I see! It's your mouth that's open, Issy. That explains the draught, of course. Yes, yes, of course." "Eh? My mouth! Never you mind my mouth. What you've got to think about is that Eddie Raymond. Yes sir-ee!
And Cap'n Marcellus and his partners was looked up to and respected; not much more'n boys they wan't, but they was big-bugs, I tell you, and they wore beaver hats to church on Sunday, every man jack of 'em. Fur's that goes, I wore one, too, and you might not think it, but 'twas becomin' to me if I do say it. Yes, sir-ee! 'Twas a kind of curl-up brim one, that hat was, and "
Did I stand on my rights as head of the family and tell her she couldn't do it? No, sir-ee, I didn't! I was resigned. I says to her, 'Laviny, I says, 'I won't say that I shan't be turrible lonesome without you. I won't say that I ain't sort of shocked and grieved at our partin' after all these years. But what's my personal feelin's when I compare 'em with your happiness?
"O, but your mother was a stiff Papist, you know, and did not understand the word of God." "Yes, sir-ee, she did that; for I well recollect that, in the many arguments she had with father, she always had the best of it. That she had." "She may argue from Jesuit books and the like; but the Bible she durst not look at, you know, Knicks." "I know better, Van. Don't you talk so.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking