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Envy and admiration struggled on the detective's countenance. "I must congratulate you, sir." Geoffrey allowed himself the luxury of a groan. "You needn't," he said; "I am no subject for congratulation. I can't even prosecute him, confound him, for several reasons. We were at school together, and I can take no steps in the matter." "But I can," said the detective; "indeed it is my duty to."
The dismembered Guardsman talked to a friend whose arm supported him, and speculated from time to time on the fair ladies driving by. The two white faces passed him unobserved. Unfortunately Ripton, coming behind, went plump upon the Captain's live toe or so he pretended, crying, "Confound it, Mr. Thompson! you might have chosen the other."
Such a thing had never happened to me in three years, and it made me feel as if I were being robbed under my own eyes. I said to myself: 'Confound it all! confound it! And then my wife began to nag at me. 'Eh! what about your 'Casque a meche'? Get along, you drunkard!
But to confound such deeds with the commemoration of God's saints, who are only pictured because their lives are perpetual incentives to purity and holiness, and to declare that the Queen of Heaven and the Mother of God should be to human feeling only as a sister of charity or a gleaner in the fields, is to abuse reason and to outrage the heart."
The child died, but the mother lived through everything. "One does not have good luck very frequently, confound it, and the only thing that I could do was to return evil, to strike at the coward whom I hated, to dishonor and to lower his name, to stick to the fellow who strutted about in his uniform, and who had won the game, from garrison to garrison, as if I had been vermin.
The excitement of this scene is equal to that afforded by any city spectacle whatever; and towards the close of the evening, when difficult and unusual words are chosen to confound the small number who still keep the floor, it becomes scarcely less than painful.
But Ben had seized an oar and now came down with a splash that sent a shower of spray about and momentarily blinded them both. "There! Look yonder, Ben!" cried Ralph. "Confound the luck!" The spider was swiftly crawling up the bank, where it quickly disappeared beneath a tussock. "That beats all the creatures I ever seen," said Ben. "He must be the great grandfather of all the spiders hereabout."
Whatever temper you choose to go through with it in, you will have to go through with it.... We have experiences before us that will need all our coolness." He paused as if he required my assent. But I sat sulking. "Confound your science!" I said. "The problem is communication. Gestures, I fear, will be different. Pointing, for example. No creatures but men and monkeys point."
In the condemnation of illustrious Romans, the senate was always prepared to confound, at the will of their masters, the judicial and legislative powers.
Forgive us, sir, for our child's sake." Old Dryce was a shrewd man, but it took an hour to make him understand it all; events had come about so strangely. "Well," said Robert at last, "I'm glad you were in time to save the money." "Confound the money!" ejaculated the old man; "at least, too much of it," he added, correcting himself.
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