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Now that Mrs Butt saw him slouching in all his native hideousness against her mantelpiece in the full blaze of a paraffin lamp, she inwardly congratulated herself that Mr Brooke was such a big strong man almost a match, she thought, for Mace! "I thought you said the gen'leman was in the parlour, Mrs Brute?" said Mace inquiringly.
He seized the opportunity to ask Ajax why we wore no jewellery, and upon my brother replying that we considered diamonds out of place upon a cattle ranch, he roundly asserted that in his opinion a "gen'leman couldn't be too dressy."
Writen copy for the Kaiser or the K-zar? and I says, 'I am a gen'leman of leisure, and he says, 'There's a good job waitin' fer lad your size out in Ch'cag! Would you come 'way out there? and I says, 'I fear nothing! "So Mr. Zeisselberg wrote his name on a card, and if I haven't los' card, or he doesn't change his old mind, I am now Mr. John J. Job of Chicago.
"All you need, to be a lady, or a gentleman is, to be wealthy? Is that it?" asked the old frontiersman laughing. "Yes, sor," said the child solemnly, "Faather wull shure be a gen'leman." "Do you like living here?" asked Eleanor. "No, mam, I don't think much of it! In Smelter City, there wuz curcuses; an' elephants on all the bills of fare; an' loidies dancin' on th'r heads!
Is you the gen'leman from the stateroom in fourteen? Do you want a lower?" "No, thank you. Is there a smoking car?" "They is the day-coach smokah, but it ain't likely very clean at this time o' night." "That's all right. It's forward?"
Off with you! Jack. No, Bill; no, please. I'm wery sorry. I ain't so bad's all that conies to. Bill. If you wants to go with Jim and me, then behave like a gen'leman. Jim. I calls our Mattie a brick! Bill. None o' your jaw, Jim! She ain't your Mattie. Enter THOMAS. Tho. Childer, dun yo know th' way to Paradise Row, or Road, or summat? Bill. Dunnow, sir. You axes at the Sunday-school. Tho.
Him an' you de onliest heirs to de De Willoughby estate; an' ef a little hoosier what's los' a yoke er oxen kin come down on de Guv'ment for 'demnification, why can't de heirs of a gen'leman dat los' what wus gwine ter be de biggest fortune in de South'n States. What's come er dem gold mines, Marse Rupert, dat wus gwine ter make yo' grandpa a millionaire whar is dey?
"It's that slush o' mine this morning about not bein' a millionaire and my face needin' to be fed. I thought afterward 'that's no talk for a gen'leman to use before a lady. Well, I may not be a millionaire at present, but I can see my way to feedin' our t'ree faces and not feel the pinch." "Ain't you the fresh guy?" exclaimed Miss Kirk.
The place here never was good for nothin'. The old gen'leman, uncle, you know, he wore hisself out tryin' to make a livin' off from it." There was an ostentatious sympathy and half-suppressed excitement from bad news which were quite lost upon us, and we did not linger to hear much more. It seemed to me as if I had known Mrs. Peet better than any one else had known her.
It seemed for the moment as if the whole affair were about to topple over into a state of confusion. "Go on, Jim," urged one man in the ring; "shake 'ands wiv 'im. Damn 'is eyes 'e's a gen'leman ain't 'e? Go 'arn, shake 'ands." "Look 'ere," said the master, "if there's any of yer blasted bunkum about this, yer can damn well see to it yourselves. I won't touch yer bloody money."
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