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'It's no for that, sir; but I would like ill to be bragged wi' him; he threeps he'll bring a score o' witnesses and mair, and I'm sure there's as mony will swear for me as for him, folk that lived a' their days upon the Charlie's Hope, and wadna like to see the land lose its right. 'Zounds, man, if it be a point of honour, said the lawyer, 'why don't your landlords take it up?
Gam, and, what is more, the honest fellow had some of the peculiarities which belonged to the widow, and bragged about his family almost as much as she did.
He flushed and bit his lips; then, feeling Matt Peasley's eyes boring into the small of his back, he turned and said: "I have every reason to believe, Captain Peasley, that you are the right man in the right place." Matt advanced upon him and held out his hand. "Mr. Ricks has always bragged that you could think quicker and act quicker in an emergency than any man he ever knew. He's right, you can.
After he had bragged his fill he invited me to have a glass of soda with him. There was a soda-stand on the next corner, and when we reached it I paused, but he pulled me away "Come on," he said, disdainfully. "We'll go into a drug-store, or, better still, let's go to an ice-cream parlor." This I hesitated to do because of my shabby clothes.
Those who had the luck to have in their veins a few drops of the blood of the people bragged about it: they dipped their pens into it, wrote with it. They were all malcontents of the burgess class, and were striving to recapture the authority which that class had irreparably lost through its selfishness.
Worse than that, we began to believe that vicious things, which in our boyhood had been very secret sins, were universally committed and bragged about. "It's so, Rupert," said Doe, in a corner of the Officers' ante-room one night before dinner, "I'm an Epicurean. Surely the Body doesn't prompt to pleasure only to be throttled?
If at school that day the children from the house of visitation bragged about their relatives, expatiating upon the power and riches that they left back East, the town knew that the visitors were ordinary kin; but if the children from the afflicted household said little about the visitors and evidently tried to avoid telling just who they were, then the town knew that the strangers were poor kin probably some of "his folks"; for it was well understood that the women in this town all came from high connections 'back East' in Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, and Iowa.
It seems it's some silly 'post office' they've had in a tree between them and that Harkness. I've had that letter from him, and certainly, Miss Sophia, if he's as much to blame as them, he's acted civil enough now. He had a better heart than most men, I believe, for all he bragged about it.
After an agreeable conversation with a gentleman who had suffered from ill health, Emerson remarked, "You formerly bragged of bad health, sir; I trust you are all right now." Emerson's reticence with regard to Carlyle's strong expressions against America was equally wise and admirable.
"I bet I can row," said the boy, "as well as any man in town." "That isn't saying much," said Susannah. "The men about here have very few boats, and they are most of them afraid to go on anything smaller than the steamer." "I could row t'other side and back," bragged the boy. "I could row t'other side and back three times in the day." "You couldn't." "I couldn't! What will you bet?"
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