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Wall, said the landlord, fetching a long breath, that's a purty long sarmon for a chap that rips a little now and then.

They say a chap with a little of the classics can get $30 or 40,000, there, any day in the week.

Ne'er heed me, Seth," said Wiry Ben, "y' are a down-right good- hearted chap, panels or no panels; an' ye donna set up your bristles at every bit o' fun, like some o' your kin, as is mayhap cliverer.

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Why,” said Billy, laughing, “ will the chap make fight?

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I suppose the old chap got around you somehow with his soft talk.

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You think you got 'old of a chap you can kick and 'it like you do your private soldiers--you're jolly well mistaken.

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After all, then, the old chap had some grit in him.

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He was a good chap at his work, I believe, but he was a crank.

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I don't know what my instructions are going to be," he continued, dropping his voice a little, "but I'm sick of making war the way our chaps are doing it.

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You recollect, down to the south'ard last year, a chap named Hawkins was lost in his whaleboat running the Arli Passage?

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That chap was obviously listening intently to the conversation.

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Dang the chap,' muttered John, looking into the empty dish as the waiter retired; 'does he ca' this a pie--three yoong pigeons and a troifling matther o' steak, and a crust so loight that you doant know when it's in your mooth and when it's gane?