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"Well, eighteenpence was what WE paid, and not a rap more, upon my honour." "Nonsense, you're joking. The Marquess of Billinsgate dine for eighteenpence! Why, hang it, if I was a marquess, I'd pay a five-pound note for my lunch." "You little know the person, Master Eglantine," replied the Captain, with a smile of contemptuous superiority; "you little know the real man of fashion, my good fellow.
Wasteall, and she began to open and did so rail at him, that what with her Billinsgate, and her Husband's hammers, I was both deaf and dumb at last the hammers ceas'd, and she grew weary, and call'd down Mr.
Away with you! Me and mine will have nuthin' to do with yer mission." In a similar vein she continued to pour out a volley of loud and abusive words, interlarding them with such oaths and curses as would have surprised a Billinsgate fishwoman.
Nothing was right that Jemmy disapproved of, and nothing wrong that had his sanction, and this without any reference whatsoever to the will of his master, who, if he happened to get into a passion about it, was put down by Jemmy, who got into a greater passion still; so that, after a long course of recrimination and Billinsgate on both sides, delivered by Jemmy in an incomparably louder voice, and with a more consequential manner, old Dick was finally forced to succumb.
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