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By such care it's never died down yet, and I have made it my custom to give sprouts away to all that would take 'em. I'm not a-doubting that there is some of this vine a-budding out all over Harpeth Valley from Providence Nob to the River bend." "No, Amandy," interrupted Aunt Viney, "it wasn't sixty years ago, it was jest fifty-seven. Mr. Lovell brought the switch of it with him the first year Mr.
Now then, for wear an' tear of two precious souls an' bodies that's it! Fifty thousand more. Got it? Yas. How much now?" "One hundred and twenty-five thousand, one hundred dollars." "Right! What does a marble hall cost?" "A marble " "You heard what I said plain enough. You live in one yerself. What did that leetle shebang on Nob Hill cost ye?" "Four hundred thousand dollars." "Jiminy Christmas!
"Why," answered John, "I say Natty Bell, as it be my belief as our dear lad's nob be full o' only one idee, and that idee is a woman. Ah, and always will be and there y'are, Natty Bell."
Past Numskull Nob, making her cautious, graceful way through rocks and shoals, was a beautiful white-winged yacht, her mast gay with pennants. One, fluttering wide to the breeze, showed her name, "The Polly." Dan stood staring in blank amazement, while Freddy's voice rose into shriller triumph: "Jim, Dud, Brother Bart, look, look what is coming here!"
The question came like the crack of a whip, and I was glad the familiar phrase had slipped out unawares and diverted her. "Our Kate," I explained. "Oh indeed, sir! A more beautiful head of hair no woman in this land possesses, and you glibly call her 'Copper Nob. Doubtless you have selected some nice expressive name for me!" "I shouldn't dare!" I protested hotly. "Why not?
"Come along there, Haviland," he exclaimed, "a nob like you should be one of the 'boys!" These fellows don't know what life is but to think of a man of muscle going back on us! "Kick not against the prigs, Riddle!" cried Little Steele in facetious delight. "Riddle, Riddle, thou art but a poor Philistine." "A man of Gath," contributed another. "The Philistine has his uses.
You both kinder wandered foreign some 'fore you sighted one another, but now you can begin to build your own nest right away, and I offers my heart as a bush on Providence Nob to put it in."
Nor were his father's millions and the Nob Hill palace of the slightest assistance to Young Dick when he peeled his jacket and, bareknuckled, without rounds, licking or being licked, milled it to a finish with Jimmy Botts, Jean Choyinsky, and the rest of the lads that went out over the world to glory and cash a few years later, a generation of prizefighters that only San Francisco, raw and virile and yeasty and young, could have produced.
Bob had been from early morning over on Providence Nob collecting the treasures, and, seated beside him on the front of the wagon, was Louisa Helen Plunkett, blushing furiously and most obviously avoiding her mother's stern eye of inquiry as to where she had spent the valuable morning hours. The sensation of young Bob's offering was only offset at the unpacking of the complacent Mr.
"Beat ut, he did, over hedge an' bog an' ditch, wid all our money, th' dhirrty dog. But I cud run tu, in thim days, an' whin I caught up I shure did play a tchune on th' nob av um!" concluded the sergeant thoughtfully. In pursuance of his daily round of the wards, Dr. Sampson presently came swinging in amongst them and saluted the party with his usual breezy bonhomie. A universal favourite with the members of the Force his entry was acclaimed with delight. They promptly bade him sit down and contribute
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