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W. H. Smith, then fresh to the leadership, did his best to shake off this inconvenient counsellor. Sir Charles's proposal was burked; but he had laid the powder, which was soon after fired and led to the successive explosions around the Parnell Commission.
"Get out of this room, you vagabond!" he vociferated. And Cap, with a curtsey and a kiss of her hand, danced away. Old Hurricane stamped up and down the floor, gesticulating like a demoniac and vociferating: "She'll get herself burked, kidnapped, murdered or what not! I'm sure she will! I know it! I feel it!
Why Sprot reserved this piece of evidence so long, why, under the shadow of the gibbet, he at last produced it, we shall later attempt to explain, though with but little confidence in any explanation. Meanwhile, at Sprot’s public trial in 1608, the Government were the conspirators. They burked the fact that they possessed plot-letters alleged to be by Logan.
He burked that expegition, right enough. ''Howlt! Dis-MOUNT! Grand style o' man for sich a contract! Why, the ole man, here, seen him out beyond Menindie, with his " "Pardon me, Mosey was Mr. Price connected with the expedition?" Went up with stores, an' come down with wool." Willoughby, who probably had wept over the sufferings of Burke's party on their way to Menindie, seemed badly nonplussed.
At the time, he said, 'When I had attended a dozen rehearsals which were more or less useless and pretty much burked, and when the last one came, and the conductor evidently had very little real idea of my score, or about the piece as a whole, I gave things up, and felt quite calm in my mind as to the very dubious destiny which was hanging over my production like a most threatening thunder-cloud. I said, 'If it is failure, a failure let it be; I am far away aloft above all an author's anxieties and uneasinesses. With other pretty speeches of a like nature.
"Get out of this room, you vagabond!" he vociferated. And Cap, with a curtsey and a kiss of her hand, danced away. Old Hurricane stamped up and down the floor, gesticulating like a demoniac and vociferating: "She'll get herself burked, kidnapped, murdered or what not! I'm sure she will! I know it! I feel it!
What are the evils against which we are attempting to make provision? Two especially; that is to say, the practice of Burking, and bad surgery. Now to both these the poor alone are exposed. What man, in our rank of life, runs the smallest risk of being Burked?
Well, I mean to say, I couldn't play a bally Scotchman!" Mr Pilkington groaned in spirit. Of all the characters in his musical fantasy on which he prided himself, that of Lord Finchley was his pet. And he had been burked, murdered, blotted out, in order to make room for a bally Scotchman! "The character's called 'The McWhustle of McWhustle' now!" said Freddie sombrely. The McWhustle of McWhustle!
It was infamous in him, they now say, to have your letters 'burked' in the post office, as it appears from Amanda, who has turned informer on the parson, because he did not marry her after his first wife's death. Before this ye were paupers, Irish, and Papists; now, you and your sister and brothers are noble and likely young people." "O Murty," said Paul, "I can see the hand of God in all this.
They did not bother to confide a single fact of their preparations to the public. They did not even condescend to talk to Congress. They burked and suppressed every inquiry. The war was fought by the President and the Secretaries of State in an entirely autocratic manner. Such publicity as they sought was merely to anticipate and prevent inconvenient agitation to defend particular points.
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