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For he felt that his ordinary vocabulary made up of such substantives as lark, cheek, and bounder, and the comprehensive adjective "rum" fell short of coping with this extraordinary speech. He even felt that he might possibly have answered in a different way, but for that unspeakable offer of money.
"Others must have been caught in traps and taken away." And Nero thought of this talk as he licked his sore paw in the jungle cave. What had happened to him was exactly like what had happened to some of the lions Bounder used to know. "But I am still here," thought Nero; "and when my father or Switchie comes to find me they will know what has happened to me. But I wish they would hurry!"
Well," closing one eye and looking out of the window calculatingly, "a bounder is a fellow who keeps up an acquaintance with you by persistently dunning you for money that you've owed to him for four or five years. Any one who annoys you is a bounder." Selim turned this over in his mind for some time, but the puzzled air did not lift from his face.
Val looked from her to Soames. Left them! Was he sorry? Was he fond of his father? It seemed to him that he did not know. Then, suddenly as at a whiff of gardenias and cigars his heart twitched within him, and he was sorry. One's father belonged to one, could not go off in this fashion it was not done! Nor had he always been the 'bounder' of the Pandemonium promenade.
When she got them up, she kept them there for some time. It was a rather intriguing habit, as it gave her an air of eager attention which wooed confidence. "He's a bounder," said Randy as if that settled it. But it did not settle it in the least. A man with an Apollo head may not be a gentleman under his skin, but how are you to prove it?
There was too much cork on his cousin's face to allow of any real registering of emotion, but he could tell from his manner that all was not well. "What's the matter?" Sam sank on the lounge. "The bounder has quit!" "The bounder? What bounder?" "There is only one! Bream Mortimer, curse him!
That was when I was consenting to serve as groom to some er some Jewish bounder in town. Mrs. Trustcott's parents live in town." The girl, who had been trudging patiently a foot or two behind them, just glanced up at Frank and down again. He wondered exactly what her own attitude was to all this. But she made no comment.
"Why do you assume that he's a bounder?" he demanded almost resentfully. "He may be all she thinks." Warriors of ferocity we had; young gentlemen who played the game to the lasting glory of John Harvard; but this letter-perfect type of chivalry, valor and gentleness well, I'm afraid he failed to make the team." You remember the story of Bruce and the spider?
"Tracey said he supposed Sprague had ordered his taxi and had decided to walk down the hill to meet it, and he added that that was exactly the kind of courtesy you could expect from a cad and a bounder like Sprague walking in uninvited, making Karen cry, then walking out, without a word, leaving the game while he was dummy.
I hope to Heaven you will get at the bottom of this diabolical thing. What do you think, Henry? Lambson-Bowles's jockey was over in this neighbourhood this afternoon. Trying to see how Black Riot shapes, of course, the bounder! Fortunately I saw him skulking along on the other side of the hedge, and gave him two minutes in which to make himself scarce.
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