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'Because it can't, says I, 'not no'ow, me lord, says I. Well, after cussin' 'isself well-nigh black in the face, 'e orders me to have it ready fust thing to-morra, and if you 'adn't found that there bolt for me it wouldn't have been ready fust thing to-morra, which would ha' been mighty bad for me, for this 'ere gentleman's a fire-and-fury out-and-outer, and no error."
Toomey tapped the lapel of his jacket impressively with his forefinger. "I'm Jasper Toomey of Prouty, Wyoming." The waiter received the information without flinching. "Call up the Blackstone and they'll tell you I'll be in to-morra an' shettle." He wafted the waiter away grandly, that person shrugging a dubious shoulder as he vanished.
I hope to goodness, Nelly, you're not intindin' to make that show of yourself at the circus to-morra. Bedad, I niver seen such a conthrivance; you might as well be walkin' alongside some sort of deminted musharoon." This rather aptly described the effect of the huge white brim upon Nelly, who was small and short of stature; but it hurt her feelings badly.
"Go to bed, den, girl. I vait. Dat's easy." "I will. Just one more look at the pearls our pearls! But I lost one. I heard it roll. It was so close to him I I couldn't " "Don't you care. Dere's a lot for us. We'll count 'em first ting to-morra', ven ve both feel like ourselves." "They ought to fetch a king's ransom, Boy." "Dey vill not, den. Dere'll be all de bulls in N'York after em.
I can't sit down on nothing. But I suppose you expect me to stand up. And if that isn't horrid, I don't know what is. I'm sure I don't know what poor dear papa would say if he were to see me now." "Do not grieve, carissima mia do not, charming mees, decompose yourself. To-morra you sall go to a bettaire place, an' I will carra you to my castello.
Circuses, to my mind, is thrash to be watchin' folks figurandyin' on a pack of ould horses' backs. There's a lot of us goin' over to-morra to Rathbeg, where they've merry-go-rounds you can ride in yourself, and all manner, if you'd just step down to the Junction station and come along wid us on the early train."
"But I don't want you to lay down your life. I want Dowlas." "And you sall haf Dowlas to-morra. An' to-night you sall haf de Italian maid." "Well, I suppose I must," said Minnie, resignedly. "Miladi," said Girasole, turning to Mrs. Willoughby, "I am ver sorry for dis leetle accommodazion. De room where you mus go is de one where I haf put de man dat try to safe you. He is tied fast.
He've bought a wardrobe there real wornut an' 'tis comin' round by sea. There's a plate-chest, too, he thinks you may fancy price thirty-five shillin secondhand: an' he hopes to reach Troy the day after next, which by the post-mark is to-morra." "Mr Philp," explained the barber, "calls in at the Office every mornin' to read all the post-cards. 'Tis one of his habits."
‘There they go!’ said he, as the carriages filed away before us. ‘There’ll be brave doings on yonder to-day, as what come to-morra.—Know anything of that family, sir? or you’re a stranger in these parts?’ ‘I know them by report.’ ‘Humph! There’s the best of ’em gone, anyhow. ‘Is Mr. Hargrave married, then?’ ‘Ay, sir, a few months since.
And to-morra I'll be off to Ardnacreagh." So the gaunt old man talked on, groping his way out of hesitating pauses, and straying into dreamy meditations, as if he sometimes forgot his story, and sometimes its hearers.
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