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"And I s'pose he's pretty well sp'ilt?" suggested Jupp. "You may well say that," replied the other. "He was his mother's pet, and she, poor lady, died last year of consumption, so he's been made all the more of since by his little sisters, and the grandmother when she comes down, as she did at Christmas.
'st!" said Beck between his teeth, as the stranger, halting at the second floor, demanded, in no gentle tones, whether Mr. Grabman lived in the chimney-pots. "'St! 'st! Don't make such a rumpus, or No. 7 will be at you." "What do I care for No. 7? And who the devil is No. 7?" "A body-snatcher!" whispered Beck, with a shudder. "He's a dillicut sleeper, can't abide having his night's rest sp'ilt.
I see just as clear as daylight how I'd nussed up every little trouble till it growed to a big one, how I'd sp'ilt Russell's life, and made him wretched, how I'd been cross to him a great many times when I had ought to have been a comfort; and now it was like enough I shouldn't never see him again, nor baby, nor mother, nor Major. And how could I look the Lord in the face, if I did die?
Follock," put in the anxious mother; "may I ask the reason for that opinion?" "Too much Suntay, Matam Littlepage the poy wilt be sp'ilt by ter ministers. He will go away an honest lat, and come pack a rogue. He will l'arn how to bray and to cheat." "Hoity toity! my noble colonel!" exclaimed the Rev. Mr. Worden, affecting more resentment than he felt.
She tried to draw him into conversation by asking him when the note on the mortgage was due, but his mind was doubtless absorbed by some problem suggested by the Review before him, for without answering he, of course, had not heard her he rose from his chair, excused himself for a moment, opened a book in his library, studied it leisurely, and only resumed his seat when Malachi gently touched his elbow and said: "Coffee purty nigh done sp'ilt, Marse Richard."
'By mighty! That makes me hotter'n a pancake. What's it on the bed fer? 'To catch flies, I answered. 'An' ketched me, said Uncle Eb, as he flung the sheet he was examining into a corner. 'My extry good suit' too! He took off his trousers, then, holding them up to the light. 'They're sp'ilt, said he mournfully. 'Hed 'em fer more'n ten year, too. 'That's long enough, I suggested.
This wa'n't no sech gentleman. One of my boarders used to say that he always said exactly what he was a mind to, and stuck his idees out jest like them that sells pears outside their shop-winders, some is three cents, some is two cents, and some is only one cent, and if you don't like, you needn't buy, but them's the articles and them's the prices, and if you want 'em, take 'em, and if you don't, go about your business, and don't stand mellerin' of 'em with your thumbs all day till you've sp'ilt 'em for other folks.
"Good watch-dog, I suppose," suggested Dundas, striving to enter into the spirit of her talk. "Naw; too sp'ilt for a gyard-dog granny coddled him so whenst he got shot. He's jest vally'ble fur his conversation, I reckon," she continued, with a smile in her eyes. "I dun'no' what else, but he is toler'ble good company."
'st!" said Beck between his teeth, as the stranger, halting at the second floor, demanded, in no gentle tones, whether Mr. Grabman lived in the chimney-pots. "'St! 'st! Don't make such a rumpus, or No. 7 will be at you." "What do I care for No. 7? And who the devil is No. 7?" "A body-snatcher!" whispered Beck, with a shudder. "He's a dillicut sleeper, can't abide having his night's rest sp'ilt.
It had also started Marrows and his wife on a run to the dock, where they had stood for hours straining their eyes seaward, each incoming vessel, as she swooped past the dock into the inner basin, adding to their anxiety. "Wouldn't give a keg o' sp'ilt fish for her.
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