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Why, boys, jist think on't! an immortal crittur lyin' round loose all day Sunday, and not puttin' on so much as a clean shirt, when all 'spectable folks has on their best close, and is to meetin' worshippin' the Lord!
"Did you hear that, Hockins?" "Ay, I heard it sure enough. What is it, think 'ee, lad!" said the seaman to the negro. Ebony, who was gazing into the dark cavern with glaring eyeballs and distended nostrils, replied "My advice to you is, let's go back de way we come. Dis no place for 'spectable Christians."
"Ye won't, Jeff Hackberry," she sneered. "Jealous, air ye? You've got no bizniss o' bein'. Done tole ye 'long ago I'd never marry yo', so long as I could find a man who has two good eyes and a 'spectable character. I've done found him. Here he is, and 'Squire Corson 'll splice us to-night."
We mean to send off a ship to Europe every day, besides what we send to other places, and expect to make no end of stamps." "What's the use of gassin', Dick? Tell a feller now." "Honor bright, then, Johnny, I've got a place at ten dollars a week, and I'm goin' to be 'spectable. Why don't you turn over a new leaf, and try to get up in the world?" "I aint lucky, Dick.
He lifted himself on his elbow, and stared around him in transient bewilderment. "Blest if I hadn't forgot where I was," he said to himself. "So this is my room, is it? Well, it seems kind of 'spectable to have a room and a bed to sleep in. I'd orter be able to afford seventy-five cents a week.
But you can larn where she be at Mr. Warney's, if so be he's still above ground." "And did this woman still go by the name of Joplin?" Bill grinned: "She warn't such a spooney as that, that name was in your black books too much, Mr. R , for a 'spectable nuss for sick bodies; no, she was then called Martha Skeggs, what was her own mother's name afore marriage. Anything more, gemman?"
The most 'spectable mother as ever 'Buried! I said, 'who buried her? 'Who buried her? Why the parish, in course. Despair then again seemed to send a torrent of ice-water through my veins. But after a time the passionate desire to see her body leapt up within my heart. At this moment Wilderspin, who had evidently followed me with remarkable expedition, came upstairs and stood by my side.
"Well," said Dorothy, "I was born on a farm in Kansas, and I guess that's being just as 'spectable and haughty as living in a cave with your tail tied to a rock. If it isn't I'll have to stand it, that's all." "Tastes differ," murmured the dragonette, slowly drooping its scaley eyelids over its yellow eyes, until they looked like half-moons.
Therefore he knocked, softly at first, but louder and louder until at length the door was plucked suddenly open and a woman appeared, a slatternly creature who bore a candle none too steadily. "Now then, owdacious," she began, somewhat slurring of speech. "What d'ye want this time o' night knocking at 'spectable door of a person?" "Is Mr. Barrymaine in?"
They let us have a little squeezed-up parlor that smells for all the world as if a lot of men had been smoking and drinking in it all night long. My lordship's down there, waiting for his breakfast now. Pretty place to fetch a 'spectable cullored pusson to, let alone a lady! Well, one comfort, we won't stay here long, cause I heard my lordship order Mr.
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