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"Den, befo' I could parley any mo' about it, dey chucked me in de wagin and went down one of dem wide roads as hard as dey could tare and soon turned up at a 'spectable enough looking buildin'. Den dey tell me to git out, and when I go in dey feel in my pockets and take my money and say, 'Guess we better save dis, de bums will clean you up. Den dar I was with a passel of no count looking Niggers and some po' drunken white trash about de worst company I ever got into.
He hain't got no powder; de guns hain't worth more'n old sticks. Hain't Massa got no money? If he seed de look of silver, now, dat would be somet'ing 'spectable." But my pockets were empty; all my money had been taken by the buccaneers.
Yours is a 'spectable calling. To save your 'spectability, it's worth your while to pawn every article of clothes you've got, sell every stick in your house, and beg and borrow every penny you can get trusted with. When you've done that and handed over, I'll leave you. Not afore. 'How do you mean, you'll leave me? 'I mean as I'll keep you company, wherever you go, when you go away from here.
"My crickey!" ejaculated the American, emitting a shrill whistle of astonishment at the naive assertion. "Then what, in the name of George Washington and Abe Lincoln rolled into one, air you, sir-ree!" "I'se a 'spectable collud genlemun," replied the darkey pompously. "I guess you'll do," said Mr Lathrope laughing. "Jest hear that, now!
"We'll have to get trunks, or perhaps carpet-bags would do." "No," said Dick, decisively, "it aint 'spectable to be without a trunk, and we're going to be 'spectable now." "Respectable, Dick." "All right, respectable, then. Let's go and buy each a trunk." This advice seemed reasonable, and Fosdick made no objection.
I done died since I lef' you! done died and gone to the debbil! been clar down dar in his place, which it aint 'spectable to name! done died and gone dere and come to life again, on a ship at sea." "Who brought you here, Katie?" questioned Ishmael, thoroughly perplexed. "De debbil, honey! de debbil, chile! Sure as you lib it was de debbil! Oh, Marse Ishmael, honey, stop long o' me!
"Dar!" she muttered, checking herself on the edge of the roof, "I reckons you know a blamed sight more dan you eber did afore, and arter dis, when you tries to steal into a 'spectable lady's room, you'll knock at de doah fust."
Then he glanced at Helmsley again with a more confiding and favourable eye. "Ye seems a 'spectable sort," he said. "What's wrong wi' ye? Out o' work?" Helmsley nodded. "Turned off, eh? Too old?" "That's about it!" he answered. "Well, ye do look a bit of a shivery-shake, a kind o' not-long-for-this-world," said the man.
'I do, indeed, answered Oliver. 'I have not slept under a roof since I left the country. 'Don't fret your eyelids on that score, said the young gentleman. 'I've got to be in London to-night; and I know a 'spectable old gentleman as lives there, wot'll give you lodgings for nothink, and never ask for the change that is, if any genelman he knows interduces you. And don't he know me? Oh, no!
"Once dar war two men wid him, sah, sitting at dat table ober in de corner. Rough-looking fellows dey war. In old times people like dat wouldn't come to a 'spectable hotel, but now eberyone got rough clothes, can't get no others, so one don't tink nuffin about it; but dose fellows was rough-looking besides dar clothes. Didn't like dar looks nohow. Dey only came here once.
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