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"As you are going to die, boy, I may let you off the birching which your impertinence merits. You have all the old brag of your father." Jack was silent. "All his deceit; all his sham and falseness " The boy said nothing. "All his craven-hearted, black-hearted villany." But young Jack saw through the other's game clearly enough. He held his peace.
The wounds inflicted by Hull, Decatur, and Bainbridge still rankled, but they were now forgotten and the loud British boastings equaled all the tales of Yankee brag. A member of Parliament declared that the "action which Broke fought with the Chesapeake was in every respect unexampled.
And he continued to brag, talking of a half-gross of rivets which he had forged for the Dunkirk lighthouse, regular jewels, things to be put in a museum, they were so daintily finished off. Hang it all, no! he did not fear competition; before meeting with another chap like him, you might search every factory in the capital. They were going to have a laugh; they would see what they would see.
This railroad-game is an old one to me; I've fought at crossings before now, and whether successful or defeated, I have always learned something in battle. Didn't you hear me tell that girl and her villainous avuncular relative last night that I had another ace up my kimono?" Bryce nodded. "That was not brag, old dear.
"First off we're tired of your brag that tea 's drunk on your table. You 're to give us all you've got, and you 're not to get any new, whether 't is East India or smuggled." "I agree to that." "Secondly," went on Bagby, in a sing-song voice, much as if he was reading a series of resolutions, "you 're to sign the Congress Association, and live up to it."
He was a passionate phrase-maker. Indeed, it would have been difficult to determine which afforded him more pleasure his self-laudations or the colorful, pungent, often preposterous language in which they were clothed "I am writing something with hot tears in it," I once heard him brag. "They'll be so hot they'll scald the heart of every one who hears it, provided he has a heart."
This I have known so to surprize my small Beer Customers, that they have asked the Drayman what was the matter: He to act in his Master's Interest tells them a Lye, and says it is the goodness of the Malt that causes that sweetish mawkish taste, and then would brag at Home how cleverly he came off.
But I was so scared I'd hit yuh, my teeth was playin' the dance to La Paloma. I was in a cold sweat. I never did hit a man with a double-jack in my life, and I guess I've put down ten miles uh holes, ma'am, if you placed 'em end to end. I always made it my brag I never scraped a knuckle at that game. But them little hands of yours on the drill I was shakin' all over for fear I might hurt yuh.
Such incidents as these of Bronco Mitchel's, however, were all in the day's work and weren't regarded as anything in particular to brag about in those rough times.
'Nephew, said the old man. 'You have been a dutiful son, I hear. 'As dutiful as sons in general, I suppose, returned Jonas, looking up and down once more. 'I don't brag to have been any better than other sons; but I haven't been any worse, I dare say. 'A pattern to all sons, I am told, said the old man, glancing towards Mr Pecksniff.
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