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We have been driven along in this fashion for the best part of two days; the "stiffish breeze" has gradually freshened into "a gale;" the top-gallants have been lowered, and, as I write, the wind is blowing with a velocity of fifty or sixty miles an hour.
"Stiffish lot, those Americans," he said at last. "They do so many things one doesn't do," I answered. "And their brogue is not what one could call top-hole, is it now? How often they say 'I guess! I fancy they must say it a score of times in a half-hour." "I fancy they do, sir," I agreed. "I fancy that Johnny with the eyebrows will say it even oftener." "I fancy so, sir.
He was introduced to all the nobs, and I saw him in the grand stand and the saddling-paddock, taking the odds in tens and fifties from the ringmen he'd brought a stiffish roll of notes with him and backing the Dawson stable right out. It turned out afterwards that he'd met them at an inn on the mountains, and helped them to doctor one of their leaders that had been griped.
"What's he waitin' for?" "There's some New York people want it. If he can get his price, he'll sell it to them for a good sum down." "What does he ask?" "He wants fifty thousand dollars." "Whew! that's rather stiffish. I thought the property belonged to a lady in New York." "So it did; but Jackson says he bought it a year ago." "He was lucky." Ben and Mr. Taylor looked at each other again.
Ain't you mighty tired? I feels a little stiffish. Dese bones is gittin' ole." "Dat's so! But I'se mighty glad I'se lib'd to see my boy 'fore I crossed ober de riber. An' now I feel like ole Simeon." "But, mother," said Robert, "if you are ready to go, I am not willing to let you. I want you to stay ever so long where I can see you." A bright smile overspread her face.
"In the present state of the path, they say that it will," said Mr. Graham. "In fact, I suspect a little unwillingness to deprive their countrymen of the job." "I'll go," said John, "then there will be no loss of time about writing. You'll look after Armine, sir, and tell my aunt." "Certainly, my boy; but you'll find it a stiffish pull."
The negro opened his huge mouth in an amiable laugh at his companion, who had taken advantage of the brief halt to give a hearty rub to his colossal limbs. "Rugged enough it is, no doubt," said the sailor, gravely, "an' it makes my sea-legs raither stiffish. But never you fear, Ebony; they're tough, an' will last as long as yours, anyhow." "You's right, 'Ockins.
The last voyage I made I had a passenger on board who was a cleverish sort of gentleman, too, and for talking politics he'd go on for an hour; yet he wanted to know why I couldn't bring the ship to an anchor right out in the Bay of Biscay; and one night, when it was blowing a stiffish gale, with a heavy sea running, he roused me out of my sleep to ask me to send a better hand to the helm; one who knew how to keep the craft steady, or else to run into some harbour till the morning.
In the second row she saw Milt's stiffish, rope-colored hair surprisingly smooth above an astoundingly clean new tan shirt of mercerized silk. He laughed furiously at the dialogue between Pete-Rosenheim & Larose-Bettina, though it contained the cheese joke, the mother-in-law joke, and the joke about the wife rifling her husband's pockets.
After a stiffish climb of a quarter of a mile or so for the hillside was steep we came to a splendid quince fence, also covered with fruit, which enclosed, Mr Mackenzie told us, a space of about four acres of ground that contained his private garden, house, church, and outbuildings, and, indeed, the whole hilltop. And what a garden it was!
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