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One, cast adroitly, struck the arm of an adjutant, and broke the bone in it; another knocked the helmet from a second adjutant; a third, falling at the prince's feet, was broken against the cliff and struck the leader's face with fragments as hot as boiling water. The Libyans laughed loudly and shouted out something: apparently they were abusing the viceroy.
"Well, who'll take part?" No one offered. "What! are we all turning sneaks and cowards? Here, Wildney, won't you? you were abusing Rose just now." "Yes, I will," said Wildney, but with no great alacrity. "You'll not have done till you've got us all expelled, I believe." "Fiddle-stick end! and what if we are? besides, he can't expel half the school."
Ah, I remember the times when on our fatherland there first descended the fashion of imitating the French; when suddenly brisk young gentlemen from foreign lands swarmed in upon us in a horde worse than the Nogai Tatars, abusing here, in our country, God, the faith of our fathers, our law and customs, and even our ancient garments.
"Hold on, Lady Gridborough!" said Reggie, blandly. "I must tell you that you're abusing a friend of mine." "A friend of yours!" said Lady Gridborough. "Well, he was a friend of mine once." She sighed. "He is one no longer; and, if you take my advice, you will have nothing more to do with him."
Its purpose was to furnish a reply to those who were continually abusing King William and some of his friends as foreigners, by showing that the present race of Englishmen was a mixed and heterogeneous brood, scarcely any of which could lay claim to native purity of blood.
The wives of the Boiragis, their hair braided in a manner pleasing to their husbands, are singing the tune of Govinda Adhi Kari to the accompaniment of the tambourine. Young Boisnavis singing with elder women of the same class, the middle-aged trying to bring their voices into unison with those of the old. In the midst of the court-yard idle boys fighting, and abusing each other's parents.
Some remained to hear me abuse the Cobbs; or, counting on my support, fell to abusing the Cobbs themselves. When I made not a word of reply, except to assure them that I really had not quarrelled with the Cobbs, had nothing against the Cobbs, and was immensely delighted that the Cobbs were coming, they went away amazingly cool and indignant.
Poor Lady Agnes, whom Peter found somehow at once grim and very prostrate she assured her nephew her nerves were all gone almost abused her younger daughter for two minutes, having evidently a deep-seated need of abusing some one.
'Ain't I goin' to get satisfaction? says he. "'If it's to be had on the prescription counter you do, says I. 'Otherwise, I prefer to stay satisfied myself. "It would have been better if he'd refrained from abusing me. I was younger then, and while not in the least quarrelsome, yet such talk as Simpson talked to me was entirely uncalled for. Besides that, he got festive with guns.
"Take care, my dear Lucenay; in abusing this German court you will have a quarrel with D'Harville, the intimate friend of the grand duke, who, besides, received me most kindly the other night at the embassade of where I was presented to him."
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