Meaning of 'spectable | Babel Free

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Pronunciation spelling of respectable.

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“But Miss Carrie’s like a rose in de morning, and little Lottie is anoder leetle rose in de morning; and ebbry pusson dat you carss to yer ’bout is most astonishing, charming well, ’cept, as I say, de ole colonel; and de fire in he foot makes him bile ober ebbry now and den, and it’s mighty hard for a ’spectable gentleman to stan’ him when he’s in his ondecent passion!”

“Ah, them charity s’ieties does a deal o’ harm! and if they’d got money enough (which ’tis a providence they ha’ not) we shouldn’t have a ’spectable boy-thief in all London!”

““Just tell me; do I come here for society, or for quiet? Have I said before, make as little noise as you can, or have I not? Do I mean what I say, or do I not? Answer me,” resumed the man in the dressing-gown. / “Bless my skin, if I know,” said Jimmy, looking immensely bewildered. “What right have you to come abusing a ’spectable gentleman’s sarvant?””

“Tell lies ’bout me, will he? Hic! Oh, ya’as, he’s gwine ter cotch it—now you see if he don’t! Well he is—he orter know what de quensequances am-hic-fo’ insultin’ a ’spectable gentleman ob my standin’.”

““Hello,” says the black imp of a car porter, “let me help you up. That berth never would stay up, and it’s too bad to mash your hat so that it is not fit to wear by a ’spectable gentleman.””

“Upon Oliver answering in the affirmative, the strange boy, whose name was Jack Dawkins, said, “I’ve got to be in London to-night; and I know a ’spectable old genelman as lives there, wot’ll give you lodgings for nothink, and never ask for the change—that is, if any genelman he knows interduces you.””

““Well,” said Dorothy, “I was born on a farm in Kansas, and I guess that’s being just as ’spectable and haughty as living in a cave with your tail tied to a rock. If it isn’t I'll have to stand it, that’s all.””

“A greedy grin etched itself upon the lad’s grubby face. “’Ow do we know you ain’t the filth?” / “Because we have money to spend tonight,” I said. “And much more where that came from. You have a sense of that, I’m sure, as you haven’t tried to part us from our gold. A long-term investment is how you’re seeing us. Tell me if I’m wrong.” / “Always keen to aid a ’spectable gentleman, so we are! The name’s Mr. Dawkins, but my chaps here call me the Artful Dodger, on account of my bein’ an artist, you see.””

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