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We put on as much style as possible to suit the occasion, including, of course, my best native wine, and the two ducks roasted. Sissy sat at the table next to Miss Sheppard, and felt it her duty to lead the conversation in the best society style. She said: "You see dose two ducks, Miss Sheppard?" "Yes, dear; very fine ones." "Well, papa bought 'em from a black man yesterday.
I don't want to say anything against him: I like him very much " "No doubt," said Mr. Thorne. "But I don't feel quite sure that I know him. He isn't like Horace. You know Horace's friends " "Trust me for that." "But what do you know of Percival's? I heard him tell Sissy he would be out to-morrow. Will you ever know where he went?" "I sha'n't ask him." "No," she retorted, "you dare not!
I must not only regard myself as being in a very ridiculous position, but as being vanquished at all points. Will you allow me the privilege of remembering my enemy's name? 'My name? said the ambassadress. 'The only name I could possibly care to know, to-night. 'Sissy Jupe. 'Pardon my curiosity at parting. Related to the family? 'I am only a poor girl, returned Sissy.
The sun was four hours lower than when Sissy and Rachael had first sat down upon the grass, before a means of enabling two men to descend securely was rigged with poles and ropes. Difficulties had arisen in the construction of this machine, simple as it was; requisites had been found wanting, and messages had had to go and return.
They fancy such actions and language make them manly, but nothing could be a greater mistake. Frank did nothing of the sort, and all who knew him regarded him as thoroughly manly. Better to be called a "sissy" than to win reputed manliness at the cost of self-respect. Frank had forced those who would have regarded him with scorn to respect him.
His whole name is Norton Edwin Thomas, but he always signed his 'nitials on his 'rithmetic papers, and the boys took to calling him Nettie. It makes it all the worse 'cause he is a regular sissy boy. Have you got any children?" "No." "Well, I s'pose you will have some day, and if I was you, I'd name them something pretty, or else wait till they got big enough to choose for themselves.
Anyway, he 'd never been a "sissy," and why should he be expected to know anything about them? "All girls are alike," he concluded desperately. "They 're just the same as the ones you know, Kid sure they are." "But I don't know any." Joe whistled. "And never did?" "Yes, one. Carlotta Gispardi. But she could n't speak English, and I could n't speak Dago; and she died.
This frugal but restful home in which he found himself, with the ministrations of "Muddie" and "Sissy," as he playfully called his aunt and the little cousin who had adopted him as her "Buddie," were to him, after his struggle with hunger, fever and death, like a safe harbor to a storm-tossed sailor. The little Virginia claimed him as her own from the beginning.
Ye haven't read all the books we have yet, but I'll get more the first chance if ye like. Come, Sissy, think how lonesome I'd be without ye!" He moved his shoulders nervously while he spoke, as if the effort to coax was a greater strain than the effort to teach or command.
When the old man heard it he sat down and laughed and cried to his own disgust "like a fool, sissy man," he said, "a sissy man that ain't got no nerve. But, Lord, who'd done that but Ben Butler?" It was after dark when the old man, pale, and his knees still shaking with the terrible strain and excitement of it all, reached his cabin on the mountain.
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