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On the way he kicks my legs black-and-blue from the knees down; and I've got to have two or three bites on my thumb and hand cauterized. "But he's gone" continues Bill "gone home. I showed him the road to Summit and kicked him about eight feet nearer there at one kick. I'm sorry we lose the ransom; but it was either that or Bill Driscoll to the madhouse."
"Impossible, ma'am! I don't know," Will continued. "My mother warned Fan off him." "Oh, your mother did warn Fanny off?" "Certainly, my dear Baroness!" "Didn't she? Didn't she pinch Fanny's arm black-and-blue? Didn't they fight about it?" "Nonsense, William! For shame, William!" cry both the implicated ladies in a breath.
Your shakes, and pinches ain't very soft, sir, I assure you. Netta threw off a portion of the white dressing-gown she had on, and displayed her round white neck and shoulder disfigured by a black-and-blue mark. 'I'll do the same to the other if you aggravate me any more, said Howel, clenching his teeth, and moving towards Netta.
The endless rat-a-tat-tat at our black-and-blue bruised doors, and my three master-fiends, proof-sheets, letters, and worse than these invitations to large dinners, which I cannot refuse without offence and imputation of pride, etc., oppress me so much that my spirits quite sink under it. I have never seen the play since the first night. It has been a good thing for the theatre.
And for many a day the young lady, scared at least out of a portion of her young ladyhood, bore on her arms and shoulders and wrists divers black-and-blue bruises tokens of caresses which he had bestowed in all fond gentleness but too late at night. There was the mistake.
By golly! one more whimper out of you and if I don't make you black-and-blue, birthday or no birthday! Dish up, Sarah, quick, or I'll give him something to cry about." The five pink candles had been lighted, burning pointedly and with slender little smoke wisps. Regarding them owlishly, the tears dried on Leon's face, his little tongue licking up at them.
"Shall suffer death!" those were the three words that hung those three sailors. Have a care, then, have a care, lest you come to a sad end, even the end of a rope; lest, with a black-and-blue throat, you turn a dumb diver after pearl-shells; put to bed for ever, and tucked in, in your own hammock, at the bottom of the sea.
It was of no use for Edwards to explain to him that Laura Bowman was practically crazy when she walked out of her husband's house as the culmination of a miserable scene the sort that had been more and more frequent there of late carrying black-and-blue marks where he had grabbed and shaken her.
Accordingly, he had selected a new field, and, in order to make it a real standing start, he had likewise chosen a new name. He had arrived at Wichita Falls with one suit of clothes and nothing more, except an assortment of contusions ranging in color from angry red to black-and-blue, these same being the direct result of repeated altercations with roughshod members of a train crew.
"I have two black-and-blue spots to show, I know I have," muttered Hudson. "We'll have some of our men on stretchers, if this thing keeps up," growled Greg Holmes. "What are you going to do about this business, Captain?" demanded two or three of the fellows, in one breath. "As long as we play," replied Dick Prescott, "we'll play the same gentleman's game, no matter what the other fellows do.
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