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But he said, "I will burst or I will succeed," and he set to work doggedly, to studying day and night, at home, at school, while walking, with set teeth and clenched fists, patient as an ox, obstinate as a mule; and thus, by dint of trampling on every one, disregarding mockery, and dealing kicks to disturbers, this big thick-head passed in advance of the rest.
Davies, his legs in the water as he sat on a staging slung over the bows, was acutely conscious that he was being blamed in a foreign tongue. He smiled uneasily, and went on with his work. "What is it?" said the Governor. "That thick-head has thought that we needed some gold-leaf, and he has borrowed that from your storeroom, but I must make it good." Then in English, "Stand up, Mr. Davies.
"And your skull's too thick to let it through to the little blob of brain that you do possess," said Benjy with a kindly-contemptuous look at his sable friend. "Oh! flatnose, you're a terrible thick-head." "You's right dere, massa," replied the negro, with a gratified smile at what he deemed a compliment.
The other's jaw fell and his brow corrugated with self-reproach. "Well, if that don't show what a thick-head I am! I thought ye was all right er I'd gone on with ye. Nobody c'd 'a' walked straighter ner talked straighter. Said ye was goin' to leave Canaan fer good and didn't want nobody to know it.
"I dunno, Master Mark. Perhaps I am. There's something keeps on buzzing in my head like a wheel going round." "You've been out too much in the sun." "No, I aren't. I've been down the mine in the dark." "And got frightened?" "Not as I knows on, Master Mark. It's the thinks." "Here, what do you mean, thick-head? I can't stop here listening to your nonsense."
I say, perhaps you're right." "Yes, I'm right," said the boy quietly; "but you don't jump about a bit: you aren't glad." "Glad? Jump about? Why should I? Oh!" "Haw haw haw!" laughed Dummy. "He can see it now. Why, it come to me, Master Mark, like a flash of lightning." "Oh, Dummy, I'll never call you a thick-head again," cried Mark excitedly. "Why not? May if you like: I don't mind."
"Humph! that's just like him, the hypercrit," growled Joe Stubley; "no sooner comes a breeze o' good luck than off he goes, too big and mighty for his old business. He was always preachin' that money was the root of all evil, an' now he's found it out for a fact." "No, Fred never said that `money was the root of all evil, you thick-head," returned Duffy; "he said it was the love of money.
"He hasn't confided in me, but I don't think he means to do any such thing. He remembers, as even a thick-head like you, Happy, would remember, how the splendid army of Burnside beat itself to pieces against our works at Fredericksburg." "Well, then, why are we here?" "There's sense in your question, Tom, but I can't answer it." "No, there isn't any sense in it," interrupted St. Clair.
"You see, to be a thick-head is not always a disadvantage." "There, you ought to take comfort from that, Junkie," remarked his brother Archie, with that fine spirit of tenderness which is so often observable in brothers. "Ha! ha! ha!" yelled Eddie, with that delicacy of feeling which is equally common.
As soon as the Plague is over there will be work for boats, and you will be able to let it, or to sell it at a fair price." John Wilkes was greatly pleased when Cyril came back and told him what he had done. "That is the very thing for you," he said. "I have been a thick-head not to think of it.
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