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Updated: May 5, 2025
Being a sober, 'spectable man myself, with correct views on the bringing up of daughters, it seemed to be a queer start that if so be this young lady was keeping company with Mr. Robinson being courted by him, you know that her mother or some female connection wasn't along with her. P'raps they were married, I thought; might have been spliced that very morning.
'Well, I'm sure! said the woman in a mincing, sarcastic voice. 'How werry unperlite you is all at wonst! how werry rude you speaks to such a werry 'spectable party as I am! You seem to forgit who I am. Ain't I the goddess as likes to 'ave 'er little joke, an' likes to wet both eyes, and as plays sich larks with her flummeringeroes and drumming-dairies an' ring-tailed monkeys an' men?
"You not know ob it!" he exclaimed; "why eberybody knows ob it, an' a'most eberybody's agwine all de 'spectable peepil, I mean, an' some ob dem what's not zactly as 'spectable as dey should be. But dey's all agwine. He's a liberal gubner, you see, an' he's gwine to gib de ball in de inn at de lan'lord's expense." "Indeed; that's a curiously liberal arrangement."
"Sartin sure," answered Becky; "it is only ven vun is down in the vorld that vun goes to the Ticker-shop. Now, h-indeed," and she looked round very proudly, "I 'as a 'spectable stashion, and I vould n't go for to lower it, and let 'em say that Becky Carruthers does not know how to conduct herself. The curril will be safe enuff now; but p'r'aps you had best take it yourself, lad."
"No," said Dick; "I look a little better than I did in my Washington coat and Louis Napoleon pants. But if I got in a office, they wouldn't give me more'n three dollars a week, and I couldn't live 'spectable on that." "No, I suppose not," said Frank, thoughtfully. "But you would get more at the end of the first year." "Yes," said Dick; "but by that time I'd be nothin' but skin and bones."
Dolf hastened to help Clorinda up, but his movements were a little uncertain, and the first thing he did was to set his foot through the crown of her bonnet, which had fallen back from her head. "I'se killed," shrieked Clo. "Do scream low, like a 'spectable ole woman!" cried the unsympathising Vic; "yer'll hab de whole house out." "I don't keer," moaned Clorinda: "I don't keer."
Well, I've got to be in London to-night, and I know a 'spectable old genelman 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."
"Golly, massa," exclaimed the darkey, when Mr Meldrum presented him with the recovered copper which Snowball looked upon almost as the apple of his eye "me able cook pea-shoop now, sah, and bile de beef in 'spectable style, sah! Dat sospan, massa, no good for ship's company. Um bile, and bile, and bile, and nebbah bile enuff!" "Ah! mind you don't go cooking too extravagantly," said Mr Meldrum.
I haven't forgot what you and your uncle said to me, and I'm tryin' to grow up 'spectable. I haven't been to Tony Pastor's, or the Old Bowery, for ever so long. I'd rather save up my money to support me in my old age. When my hair gets gray, I'm goin' to knock off blackin' boots, and go into some light, genteel employment, such as keepin' an apple-stand, or disseminatin' pea-nuts among the people.
"DAT'S a name of 'spectability," said Rosa, with a satisfied air. "'Tis my 'pinion chillen should allus have 'spectable names, else they're 'posed on in dis yer world. Nudd's Tidy, now, dere's a spec'men for yer. Never was no more 'complished 'fectioner dan she. She knowed how to cook all de earth, she did.
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