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Anderson took occasion to warn her against widowers. "Why," he said, "they're jest like widders. You know Dave Smith that runs the tavern down street, don't you? Well, doggone ef he didn't turn in an' marry a widder with seven childern an' a husband, an' he's led a dog's life ever sence." "Seven children and a husband? Daddy Crow!" "Yep.
"Just a trifle to assist a poor man, kind gent," whined Nickie the Kid. "Not a morsel iv turkey's passed me lips for seven days. Just a few pence, sir, to buy champagne fer me widders and orphans. I don't care about meself, kind sir." King Henry promptly dropped half-a-crown into Nickie's hat. Two, or three laughing guests standing about contributed silver.
"Now, look yer, Flip, it's playing it rather low down on the old man, this yer running' in o' tramps and desarted emigrants and cast-ashore sailors and forlorn widders and ravin' lunatics, on this yer ranch.
Weller, senior, was engaged in preparing for his journey to London, taking sustenance, and incidentally discussing "Widders" with his son Sam, exists to-day we are unable to state with any certainty; but no doubt there is one which would fill the bill. Which, too, was the particular room where Mr. Pickwick and Mr.
Weller, Senior, that it is the part of wisdom to beware of "widders," we may observe that what binds us to this motley crowd of creatures is not their grotesquerie but their common humanity, their likeness to ourselves, the mighty flood-tide of tolerant human sympathy on which they are floated into the safe haven of our hearts.
"He's risin' six years," said Zebulon, and so he was. "He looks pretty well along," said the widow. "How much boot will you give me?" "Boot!" exclaimed Zebulon. "O, if you talk about boot, I'm off. I ain't no horse jockey, but I know I'm flingin' my hoss good old hoss away by tradin' even. But generosity and consideration for widders specially good-lookin' ones was allers a failin' in my family."
"Doctor Prescott, he's a church member, too, an' he gives tithes of his widders an' orphans to the Lord. That meetin'-house couldn't be run nohow without him.
Now, look here, a banker can rob hundreds of wimmin and children an' widders and orfuns, and nothin' is done to him; but if a poor man only embezzles a shilling he gets transported to the colonies for life." The italics are ours, but the words were his.
Phil, whin does your padre and his Company start to subdue the rebillious South?" "Pretty soon, father says." "My father is going too," Marjie said gently, "and Henry Anderson and Cris Mead, and all the men." "Oh, well, we'll take care of the widders an' orphans." O'mie spoke carelessly, but he added, "It's grand whin such min go out to foight fur a country.
I lost my man in a gale " Her voice broke and she paused. "D'ye want us all to be widders? "How can ye go an' leave us? It's the women the sea kills with misery, not the men. What can we do when you're gone? There ain't any money nor much food. If there come a fire we'd all be cleaned out, for what could we do? If you'll only think of us a little us women mebbe you won't go."
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