Paning

Page 356 de pass pertect me! 'an' Paning says, 'I don't know you; git up!' and two on 'em ketches mistis by de arm and jerks her outen de bed on de floor, and mistis faints like, while Miss C'lotta holds her head in her arms and cries.

Sea-Gift. A Novel. Edwin Wiley 1873

"Say, Smith!" he said, shading a match with his hands to keep it from being blown out, and speaking on each side of his cigar, "is that little beauty who was with Paning last night a friend of yours?"

Sea-Gift. A Novel. Edwin Wiley 1873

"Paning must be the veriest villain alive to take the woman he loves, or pretends to love, into such company."

Sea-Gift. A Novel. Edwin Wiley 1873

"I believe she is," he replied, lolling back on the pillow; but if she allows Paning to carry her into the company he does, she will not be thought so by others.

Sea-Gift. A Novel. Edwin Wiley 1873

"Paning does not respect her much, does he?" he asked, blowing smoke rings in the sunlight.

Sea-Gift. A Novel. Edwin Wiley 1873

"Well, for one thing, the very fact that she receives attention from such fellows as Paning and Donnery has lowered her in the estimation of your acquaintances; and then, even during the short time she has been here, those low fellows have originated enough scandal about her to damn a dozen women at the social bar."

Sea-Gift. A Novel. Edwin Wiley 1873

They said that two spies, one of them disguised as an old woman, had killed Paning, and, meeting these, had fired on them.

Sea-Gift. A Novel. Edwin Wiley 1873

Page 276 that Lulie held quite a levee down at her hotel, though each one who called asked me in some surprise afterwards, how she came to be so intimate with "that fellow, Paning."

Sea-Gift. A Novel. Edwin Wiley 1873

"Twist her tail, Paning, -- her! that will move her."

Sea-Gift. A Novel. Edwin Wiley 1873

They all assented except Miss Mayland, and I distinctly heard her ask Paning to see her home; but he vowed she must not leave yet, and she remained, though I knew from her silence that she felt out of place and ill at ease.

Sea-Gift. A Novel. Edwin Wiley 1873