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"'Ere it is," said the little ferret-faced man, and stooped to pick up a cindery cube. He looked at Denton, then at the others. Slowly, unwillingly, Denton stood up. A dirty-faced albino extended a hand to the ferret-faced man. "Gimme that toke," he said. He advanced threateningly, bread in hand, to Denton. "So you ain't 'ad your bellyful yet," he said. "Eh?" Now it was coming.
"Dirty skunks!" he panted. "Had their bellyful before I'd begun." Blob was laughing to himself. "Oi loike killin," he gurgled. "It goos in so plop-loike." A figure, tall and black as a winter tree, shot up against the light on the shingle-bank, and hung a second there. The Parson waved. "Too late, Monsieur le Poseur," he called mockingly. "Better luck next time."
"But the British have retreated, you say, and there was a sortie from the fort?" "Yes, it's about six of one and half-dozen of t'other. I should say that both sides had got their bellyful of fighting. I guess they'll both want to rest for a spell." I made no answer, being lost in a maze of thoughts upon the hideous carnage of the day, and upon what was likely to come of it.
They are for ever striking Poor's Rates against householders, and will not take clipped money; whereas in my day Private Charity, and a King's Letter in aid from the pulpit now and then, were enough; and, for my part, I would sooner see a poor rogue soundly firked at the post, and then comforted with a bellyful of bread and cheese and beer by the constable, and so passed on to his belongings, than that he should be clapped up in a workhouse, to pick oakum and suck his paws like a bear, while Master Overseer gets tun-stomached over shoulder of veal and burnt brandy at vestry-dinners.
Peace, I say, thou Imp of Lucifer; wou'd thou hadst thy Bellyful, that I might be fairly rid of thee go get you up to your Chamber, and, d'ye hear, stir not from thence, on pain of our severe displeasure, for I am sent for in all haste, to Signior Don Sebastian's, 'tis but hard by, I shall soon return; what, are you here? Enter Isabella. Isabella crying. Cla.
'A chap in search of the lofty ideal will have to make up his mind to a pretty good hiding, too. If you're eating for honour, you mustn't leave anything on the trencher. He watched the fight keenly, but he watched it with a heart that danced unevenly. 'Yes, he thought; 'I shall have to take a bellyful. The combat was brief and decisive.
I've had my bellyful o' Frenchies, Mr. Carvell save it be to fight 'em. An' I tell 'ee 'twould give me the greatest joy in life t' leave loose 'Scolding Sairy' at that there Landais. Th' gal ain't had a match on her this here cruise, an' t' my mind she couldn't be christened better, sir." I left him patting the gun with a tender affection.
It was three days later, in the morning, that his captress said to the Magister Udal: 'Husband, it is time that I gave thee the bridal gift. The magister, happy with a bellyful of carp, bread and breakfast ale, muttered 'Anan? from above his copy of Lucretius. He sat in the window-seat of the great stone kitchen.
"Let's walk slow," he said, "we don't want to get out of here too soon." He grabbed carelessly at little cluster of hawthorn flowers as he passed them, and seemed reluctant to untangle the thorny branches that caught in his coat and on his loosely wound puttees. "Hell, man," said Chrisfield, "we won't have time to get a bellyful. It must be gettin' late already."
"'Oh, but I'm in airnest, says the captain; 'and do you tell me, Paddy, says he, 'that you spake Frinch? "'Parly voo frongsay? says I. "'By gor, that bangs Banagher, and all the world knows Banagher bangs the divil. I never met the likes o' you, Paddy, says he. 'Pull away, boys, and put Paddy ashore, and maybe we won't get a good bellyful before long.
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