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The premises of Gruff and Tackleton were the great feature of the street; but you might have knocked down Caleb Plummer's dwelling with a hammer or two, and carried off the pieces in a cart. If any one had done the dwelling-house of Caleb Plummer the honour to miss it after such an inroad, it would have been, no doubt, to commend its demolition as a vast improvement.
In consequence he was accused of being a member of the Y.M.C.A. His blood boiled at this. He refuted the charge, and became great friends with the soldier, for the third time. "Any objection to 'Saucy Mr. and Mrs. Tackleton'?" "Rather not." The soldier sang "Saucy Mr. and Mrs. Tackleton." It is really a work for two voices, most of the sauciness disappearing when taken as a solo. Nor is Mrs.
During the whole process, Tackleton stood looking on maliciously with the half-closed eye; which, whenever it met hers or caught it, for it can hardly be said to have ever met another eye: rather being a kind of trap to snatch it up augmented her confusion in a most remarkable degree. "Why, what a clumsy Dot you are this afternoon!" said John.
The Blind Girl never knew they had a master, cold, exacting, and uninterested never knew that Tackleton was Tackleton, in short; but lived in the belief of an eccentric humorist, who loved to have his jest with them, and who, while he was the Guardian Angel of their lives, disdained to hear one word of thankfulness. And all was Caleb's doing; all the doing of her simple father!
'Why? returned the other. 'That's a new way of receiving an invitation. Why, for pleasure sociability, you know, and all that! 'I thought you were never sociable, said John, in his plain way. 'Tchah! It's of no use to be anything but free with you, I see, said Tackleton.
I went at once to seek the counsel of Lawyer Miles, for whose legal acumen and forensic eloquence I had harbored the profoundest veneration ever since I had heard his prosecution of a man named Tackleton for causing the death of neighbor Baylor's pet dog.
Tackleton knew that, although reduced in purse, it had some pretensions to gentility; and if certain circumstances, not wholly unconnected, she would go so far as to say, with the Indigo Trade, but to which she would not more particularly refer, had happened differently, it might perhaps have been in possession of wealth.
Oh! here she is! I beg your pardon, sir; I haven't the pleasure of knowing you; but if you can do me the favour to spare this young lady, she has rather a particular engagement this morning. 'But I can't spare her, returned Edward. 'I couldn't think of it. 'What do you mean, you vagabond? said Tackleton.
She never looked at Tackleton, but fixed her eyes upon her husband. But she kept away from him, setting as wide a space as possible between them; and though she spoke with most impassioned earnestness, she went no nearer to him even then. How different in this from her old self!
There's that spirit of emulation among 'em, sir, that if your wife says to my wife, "I'm the happiest woman in the world, and mine's the best husband in the world, and I dote on him," my wife will say the same to yours, or more, and half believe it. 'Do you mean to say she don't, then? asked the Carrier. 'Don't! cried Tackleton, with a short, sharp laugh. 'Don't what?
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