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Bilk might have known Dell by this time, but his memory was short and his mind preoccupied, and he smelt no rat, as the Irish would say, in his companion's salutation. "Hullo! where are you off to, Lamp-post? How jolly blue you look!" "I'm only taking a walk." "Well, you don't seem to be enjoying it, by the looks of you. I've just been taking a trot over the common."
I like you, because you are no ordinary sneak thief. You are a high-toned, gentlemanly sort of a bilk, and wouldn't take anything you couldn't lift. O, keep your seat, and don't get excited. It does a man good to hear the truth from one who has got the nerve to tell it. "But about the parrot.
I cried out; "I gave him a shilling at Westminster stairs to row me to the Tower wharf." "Fare's only fourpence. Shame! shame!" cried one part of the people in the small craft. "He's a Bilk," yelled another part of 'em. "Duck him, Goodman Crabs, duck him." "Stop," cries the coxswain of the wherry, standing up. "It is a shame. The poor fellow shan't be put upon.
Subtle as the fox for prey: Like warlike as the wolf, for what they eat. They have indeed a regard to their character, as this last may affect their livelihood or advancement, none as it is connected with a sense of propriety; and this sets their mother-wit and native talents at work upon a double file of expedients, to bilk their consciences, and salve their reputation.
For Bilk had for some days past secretly hugged the idea of presenting himself to the oracle of these wise ones and having his fortune told.
"Five was the bargain," whined the man. "Do you want me to push in your blinkers, you damned old bilk, you?" cried Max, seizing him violently by the arm. The man visited his pocket again, found another five, extended the two. Maud seized them. "Now, clear out!" said Max. "I hate to let you go without a swift kick in the pants." Maud pressed the money on Susan and thanked Max.
Old Marsh was caught out, with the surprise of it. The idea was so immense, so extravagant, that he couldn't get his breath at first. When he did get it, it came rancid with sarcasm. "A cablegram think of it, ladies and gents, he's expecting a cablegram! He's expecting a cablegram this duffer, this scrub, this bilk! From his father eh? Yes without a doubt.
I want to be nearer the places of diversion; so I am going to Pall-mall." "And do you intend to make a secret of your going away?" said Jones. "I promise you," answered Nightingale, "I don't intend to bilk my lodgings; but I have a private reason for not taking a formal leave." "Not so private," answered Jones; "I promise you, I have seen it ever since the second day of my coming to the house.
"She did not talk much, though she began by saying: 'Pay up at once, old man ... You don't look like a fellow who would bilk a girl, but it puts me into better trim when I have been paid. "I gave her two napoleons, and she eyed me with gratitude and respect at the same time, but also with that uneasy look of a girl who asks herself: 'What does this tool expect for it?
Hunterleys and Richard Lane had entered the room together and were seated at an adjoining table. Selingman plunged into a fresh tirade, pointing to the half-demolished plateful of cakes. "I will eat one more," he declared. "We will bilk the management. The bill is made out. I shall not be observed.
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