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"Boys," said Whitey, solemnly, "ef the cap'en hed struck a nugget, good luck might hev spiled him; ef he'd been chief of Black Hat, or any other place, he might hev got shot. But he's made his mark, so nobody begrudges him, an' nobody can rub it out. So here's to 'the cap'en's mark, a dead sure thing. Bottoms up." The glasses were emptied in silence, and turned bottoms uppermost on the bar.
Kyan Pepper was there also, not yet fully recovered from the surprise which Lavinia's gracious permission had given him. Abishai had been leaning disconsolately over his front gate early that morning when Noah Ellis, the lightkeeper, jogged down the lane. "'Mornin', 'Bish," hailed Noah, pulling up his horse. "What's the matter? You look bluer'n a spiled mack'rel. What's the row?
The bride, a motherless girl, speedily adopted Mrs. Simmons as mother, and made many happy hours for the old lady; but that venerable and pious person is frequently heard to say to herself, in periods of thoughtfulness: "A lovely experience completely spiled!" How many conquests Mabel Fewne had made since she had entered society no one was able to tell.
Now in those days there were no Rommanichals, and consequently no rat-catchers." "'Taint so now-a-days," replied the Gipsy, gloomily. "The business is quite spiled, and not to get a livin' by." "Avo. And he agreed for a thousand crowns to clear all the rats away. So he blew on a pipe, and the rats all followed him out of town." "What did he blow on a pipe for?"
And that aged Hobden answered: ''Tain't my business to advise, But ye might ha' known 'twould happen from the way the valley lies. When ye can't hold back the water you must try and save the sile. Hev it jest as you've a mind to, but, if I was you, I'd spile! They spiled along the water-course with trunks of willow-trees And planks of elms behind 'em and immortal oaken knees.
She did not hesitate about beginning the skirmish, however; for her tongue was already a bit loosened, and in fine working-order. "Wot's dis yer, Mrs. Kinzer, 'bout sendin' away my Dick to a furrin 'Cad'my? Isn't he 'most nigh nuff spiled a'ready?" "Oh! it's all arranged nicely. Miss Foster and I only came over to see what we could do about getting his clothes ready.
Appleby," said one of his neighbors, "that you have any out-buildings left." "But look at the hay that's burned!" whined the farmer. "Nigh on to three tons of it gone, an' the rest spiled by smoke, I reckon." "But you're lucky just the same," insisted another neighbor who had come over to help fight the blaze.
"A-l-i-c-e" he slowly and stutteringly pronounced again, as he pointed down the road toward Westmoreland. "My God," said the Bishop as he wiped away the tears on the back of his hand "my God, but that blow has spiled God's noblest gentleman." Then there rushed over him a wave of self-reproach as he raised his head heavenward and said: "Almighty Father, forgive me!
"Your gran'pa would have gone after you to the remotest end of this world, Miss Laura, if you'd so much as held your finger up to beckon of him. Your gran'pa spiled you, Miss Laura. A pretty thing it would have been if your pa had come all the way from India to find his only daughter gallivanting at a theaytre." Miss Dunbar looked at her old nurse with an arch smile.
But, as only Sorrel Top was visible, and she in a fit of sulks, in the bringing on of which he had been instrumental, he delayed his important communication for a more appreciative audience, and contented himself with the performance of what he considered a solemn duty. "'Tween you and me, its never best to pout," said he, "I've seen many a handsome face spiled by it."
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