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Black Bess, his dell, is of us yet, but absent on the eastward tramp; a fine lass, of nice ways and orderly conduct, none ever seeing her drunk above four days in the seven." "She was ever strict I remember it well a goodly wench and worthy all commendation. Her mother was more free and less particular; a troublesome and ugly-tempered beldame, but furnished with a wit above the common."
You have yet to hear me criticise an absent girl, or jest about her." Again Berenice shrugged her shoulders as though she would dismiss the subject. "I am glad I am not ugly-tempered," she said and walked away without a backward glance at the others. For a moment, Erma was wounded. Then the humor of the situation came to her.
"He's been worse than a wolverine since Doug left," said Judith. "How do you and he get along?" asked Peter, sitting down to his belated supper. "O, I patch along for Mother's sake. But it's no way to live! I don't see what Dad gets out of his own ugliness." "You'd probably find out, if he'd tell you the truth, that John doesn't consider himself ugly-tempered.
"Well, anyway," said Biddy Ryan, "I'd liefer be in their coats, for fortin or no fortin, than like them two ugly-tempered women, settin' off to the dear knows where, after robbin' and plunderin' all before them." "Thrue for you, then, Biddy," said Mrs.
"I'll hate it, and I'll be ugly-tempered, and they'll detest me. Up to you, however." "It is," responded Marston, and no more was said. So that at twilight they were speeding down the long, empty ocean drive with good salt air in their faces, and lights of cottages spotting the opal night with orange blurs.
Afterward, he swore that the girl stumbled against the horse's legs, so frightening the animal that it rushed off madly, pitching him out of the saddle and dashing the servant to death on rocks and trees; yet, knowing how ugly-tempered he could be, his neighbors were better inclined to believe that he had driven the horse into a gallop, intending to drag the girl for a short distance, as a punishment, and to rein up before he had done serious mischief.
"Only two of 'em did it though, for Harry, who was a powerful, ugly-tempered chap, swore he'd do all sorts o' dreadful things to us if we didn't keep well and hearty, an' all 'cept these two did. One of 'em, Mike Rafferty, laid up with a swelling on his ribs, which I knew myself he 'ad 'ad for fifteen years, and the other chap had paralysis. I never saw a man so reely happy as the skipper was.
The horse was outwitted, defeated, and the boy was his conqueror. "Hurrah!" shouted the latter, overflowing with exultation. "Thank the Lord! I've had better fortune than I expected." The mustang was not an ugly-tempered creature, but would have given the lad the slip, could he have done so.
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