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They were stowing away books for a quiet afternoon in the furze, which they called the "wuzzy." "All up," said Stalky, serenely. "I spotted Heffy's fairy feet round our hut after dinner. 'Blessing they're so big." "Con-found! Did you hide our pipes?" said Beetle. "Oh, no. Left 'em in the middle of the hut, of course. What a blind ass you are, Beetle! D'you think nobody thinks but yourself?
He plunged his hands into his hair and leaned his elbows on his knees, and fell to rocking himself back and forth in anguish. Mrs. Hawkins sprang in, beaming: "Well, Si?" "Oh, con-found the con-founded con-found it, Nancy. I've gone and done it, now!" "Done what Si for mercy's sake!" "Done everything! Ruined everything!" "Tell me, tell me, tell me! Don't keep a body in such suspense.
Answer me, didn't I? Didn't I say I wished you could have seen it when I first saw it? When you got up on your ear and called me names, and said I had brought you eleven miles to look at a sapling, didn't I explain to you that all the whale-ships in the North Seas had been wooding off of it for more than twenty-seven years? And did you s'pose the tree could last for-ever, con-found it?
And even as he spoke a great black head appeared close to the body, the sound of snapping jaws was heard, and with a sudden swirl of water both head and body disappeared in the black depths, to be seen no more. "Con-found it!" exclaimed Earle, savagely. "Now, if that isn't too bad! My first jaguar, too, and a fine one at that; and a beastly 'gator has stolen him from almost under my nose.
I don't want to earn no more guineas that way." "What does he mean?" asked Mr. Lacy. "I gave him a guinea to go into it for half an hour, and he calls it a hard bargain." "Oh, you have been in it, then? Tell me, is it torture or is it only confinement?" "Con-finement! con-found such confinement, I say. Yes, it is torture and the worst of torture.
He plunged his hands into his hair and leaned his elbows on his knees, and fell to rocking himself back and forth in anguish. Mrs. Hawkins sprang in, beaming: "Well, Si?" "Oh, con-found the con-founded con-found it, Nancy. I've gone and done it, now!" "Done what Si for mercy's sake!" "Done everything! Ruined everything!" "Tell me, tell me, tell me! Don't keep a body in such suspense.
Answer me, didn't I? Didn't I say I wished you could have seen it when I first saw it? When you got up on your ear and called me names, and said I had brought you eleven miles to look at a sapling, didn't I explain to you that all the whale-ships in the North Seas had been wooding off of it for more than twenty-seven years? And did you s'pose the tree could last for-ever, con-found it?
I am prepared to do the usual thing which I have done regularly and to keep this matter going. I never got a letter like this from you before, and I have been a little put about by it this morning, because here's my friend Matthew Bagnet, who, you know, had none of the money " "I DON'T know it, you know," says the old man quietly. "Why, con-found you it, I mean I tell you so, don't I?"
While they were doing so, Riderhood still sat staring disconsolate. 'All right. Give way! said Lightwood. 'Give way, by George! repeated Riderhood, before shoving off. 'If he's gone and made off any how Lawyer Lightwood, it's enough to make me give way in a different manner. But he always WAS a cheat, con-found him! He always was a infernal cheat, was Gaffer.
'Kills himself, in fact, said Wilkins Flasher, Esquire. 'Just so, replied Mr. Simmery, putting it down. "Flasher ten guineas to five, Boffer kills himself." Within what time shall we say? 'A fortnight? suggested Wilkins Flasher, Esquire. 'Con-found it, no, rejoined Mr. Simmery, stopping for an instant to smash a fly with the ruler. 'Say a week.
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