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Madame Bill didn't answer the question, though it seemed to me put delicate, but she burst into melodious laughter, and ran away, and the tin-type man, whose natural expression was dislike of his fellow man, he looked disgusted more'n you'd believe, and went away too.
Judge for yourself if he be noble." With this she placed in her father's hand an American tin-type, tinted in pink and brown. The picture represented a typical specimen of American manhood of that Anglo-Semitic type so often seen in persons of mixed English and Jewish extraction. The figure was well over five feet two inches in height and broad in proportion.
"No, he is not! He has noble impulses ragpicking inspired! His eyes were misty when he spoke of it "A way out of Butterfly Thenter! "A ragpicker's cart "A way out " Petticoat held her up. "You seem a bit gone on that tin-type fellow, Sproggins." "Yop. Maybe I'd better go to Atlantic Thity for a while." "Oh, no, you stay here. A lady's place is in the home." So she was fairly thrown at Porgie.
Most of the hotels are in the town, at considerable distance from the ocean, and the majestic old sea, which can be monotonous but never vulgar, is barricaded from the town by five or six miles of stark-naked plank walk, rows on rows of bath closets, leagues of flimsy carpentry-work, in the way of cheap-John shops, tin-type booths, peep-shows, go-rounds, shooting-galleries, pop-beer and cigar shops, restaurants, barber shops, photograph galleries, summer theatres.
"Not on your tin-type, Sun." "I never thought you was crooked, Billy." "Crooked!" flashed Corliss. "Say, you you forget it. I'm here to get what's coming to me. Jack turned me down, so I'm going to take what's mine." "Mebby it's yours, but you ain't gettin' it right," said Sundown. "I I never thought you was " "Oh, cut that out! You didn't used to be so dam' particular."
To think of those old tin-type times about turned my head; I was so unrefined then, and so illiterate, and so lonesome; and here I am in clover, and I'm blamed if I can see what I've done to deserve it." So he poured forth with innocent volubility the fulness of his heart; and I, from these irregular communications, must pick out, here a little and there a little, the particulars of his new plan.
Not Barnum's, nor the Flannagan an' Imparial, would compare with it. An' 'tis thrue, ma'am, as a showman in the profession, I couldn't be exprissin' betther me wondher an' admiration." Then the tin-type man put in, and he sneered some: "I ain't much on admiration and wonder." "You're not, typist," says Flannagan. "'Tis curdled like he is, ma'am, wid inveterate scorn, the poor man!"
One moment the face was Ernestine's, the next it was Monty's little girl laughing up at him from the worn and yellow tin-type. The promise of the one had it been fulfilled in the woman? At least he knew that here was the one great weakness of his life.
"Ever see a picture of him?" "Yes, I saw a tin-type of him when Jackson was at home." "Would you recognize that picture if you were to see it?" "I think I would." At this juncture of the examination Chief Deitsch went to get a picture of Walling but failed to find it. Wood was taken down to Central Station and registered. He gave his name as William Wood, aged 20, residence South Bend, Ind.
We were thinking of dragging the river for you. I must say you're the limit! Do you know what time it is?" "Five minutes after four by the library clock as I came up," answered Courtland, affably. "Say, Nelly, go to church with me again this morning? I've found another preacher I want to sample." "Go to thunder!" growled Tennelly. "Not on your tin-type! I'm going to get some sleep.
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