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"After the unhandsome way you have doubted my true story, I would not like to apply to you. But any advance that any one would make to me would be as safe as the bank. I have an annuity, and have had it for many years." "No," said Mr. Dempster, "you have no annuity; you got a sum of money instead." Mrs. Peck started at this confident assertion, and coloured indignantly.
"Not at all absurd, Peter, but very absurd of you to talk without thinking: when did any one of his shipmates ever know Mr Chucks to do an unhandsome or mean action? Never and why? because he aspired to be a gentleman, and that feeling kept him above it.
August had been at first displeased, then a certain complacency had possessed him Morice, who was practically thirty years old, had no source of income other than that volunteered by his father, and it pleased the latter to keep them depending uncertainly on what he was willing to do. It insured just the attitude from Rosalie he most enjoyed, approved, in a youthful and not unhandsome woman.
He got his from Jean le Negre, as the reader will learn later. Third, a super-Western-Union-Messenger type of ancient-youth, extraordinarily unhandsome if not positively ugly. Then he returned to his paillasse, lay down with apparently supreme contentment, and fell asleep.
He's a strong man, but he's got enough on his nerves as it is. No, I won't tell him. He is going to do the handsome thing by us, and it would be mean for me to do the unhandsome thing by him. By George! I don't believe he could sleep for two or three nights if he knew what I know! No, sir!
Men, who had left the trade upon principle, and who had come forward, against their apparent interest, to serve the cause of humanity and justice, were looked upon as mercenaries and culprits, or as men of doubtful and suspicious character. They were brow-beaten. Unhandsome questions were put to them. Some were kept for four days under examination.
'My brothers all took tricks, said one young lady, who had inherited her mother's delicate beauty, while the rest of the family resembled a singularly unhandsome father which enabled her to speak without very deep resentment. 'So did poor dear papa, said Gilda, 'but that was the one taken in fancy dress, and he would go as Dante. 'Nothing could stand against Gurgoyle, observed Caffyn.
Yet he was by no means a common dog, nor even an unhandsome dog; and it was a singular fact that his severest critics vied with each other in narrating instances of his sagacity, insight, and agility which they themselves had witnessed. He had been seen crossing the "flume" that spanned Grizzly Canyon at a height of nine hundred feet, on a plank six inches wide.
The stores and hotels that wall in this broad avenue are mean, and cheap, and dingy, and are better left without comment. Beyond the Treasury is a fine large white barn, with wide unhandsome grounds about it. The President lives there. It is ugly enough outside, but that is nothing to what it is inside.
Such unhandsome behaviour, such repeated abuses of his hospitality, were calculated to raise displeasure on the brow of the hunter, but still the deference due to strange guests induced him to pass it over in silence. Observing their partiality for this part of the animal, he resolved the next day to anticipate their wants, by cutting off and tying up a portion of the fat for each.
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