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I have already given him a thorough good blackguarding for calculating upon crossing the run. If he trespasses on feed or water if he does n't go straight on with his team, wagon or no wagon you and I may quarrel." Who was the spy? Ah! who is the ubiquitous station spy? "Good-bye, Mr. Montgomery," said I abjectly.
He and she both knew it was Esther, and a little more likelihood of Madame Beattie's blackguarding Esther in print must rouse him to command the situation. Jeffrey finished his row, and then hurried into the house. It was the late afternoon, and he went to his room and dressed, in time for supper. Lydia, glancing at him as he left the table, thought exultantly: "I've stirred him up, at least.
He has very likely spent the night with some friends blackguarding crapulous Bonaparte." "No, no," she murmured with an effort. "You don't think that. I know where Lantier is. You see, we have our little troubles like the rest of the world!"
"I cry 'Quits, Percy," he said, and held out his hand. "All right," said Percy, smoothing down his ruffled feelings, and putting out his hand too. Van seized it, wrung it in good brotherly fashion, then raced over the stairs at a breakneck pace. "Polly", he said, meeting her in the hall where she had just come from Mr. King's room, "I've been blackguarding Percy, and you ought to know it."
If one reads old reviews, old books of political controversy, old pamphlets how much more blackguarding and calling names one sees. Anonymous journalists, anonymous reviewers, are now the only people who keep up the tradition of public bad manners all signed articles and criticisms are infinitely politer than they used to be."
"Same time, anybody except the like of Montgomery would spring a bit in a season like this. I couldn't crush a poor, decent, hard-working devil like that. I'd give him a thorough good blackguarding for calculating upon crossing the run; and then, as a matter of form, I'd send a man with him, to see him across. Well, I suppose we must go and get our mot d' ordre, boys."
Indeed he was in his element while directing the labors of the men, blackguarding this one for his stupidity, anathematizing that one for his indolence, and shaking his fist at another, and menacing him with rough treatment for his short answers and sulky looks.
Alice stopped, then laughed ruefully, exclaiming, "But this is dreadful of me!" "Is it?" "Blackguarding her to you when she's giving a big party for you! Just the way Henrietta would blackguard me to you heaven knows what she WOULDN'T say if she talked about me to you! It would be fair, of course, but well, I'd rather she didn't!"
He always said he had been obliged to fight on the other side, but that he had always been heart and soul for the North; anyhow, he was always blackguarding his old friends. I always doubted the fellow. Well, there's an end of him; and anyhow he has done useful service at last by recognizing this spy. Fine-looking young fellow that. He called him Vincent Wingfield.
My coolies, themselves in a spot most dangerous to their own necks, stuck the outside leg deep in the mud to rest themselves, and set to assiduously in blackguarding the man in their richest vein, then, extricating themselves, again continued their journey, satisfied that they had shown the proper front, and saved the face of the foreigner who could not save it for himself.
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