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"To be sure," Charles continued, "I was bound to learn, and could acquire no younger." He flicked the glossy red backs of his horses with his whip. "You are thinking it an extraordinary education, I know," he added rather sadly. "I hav a-told you this God knows why! Yes, because I like you damnably, and you would have heard worse elsewhere, both of him and of me.
Enter a Seaman. Sea. Fran. Draw! I never drew any thing in my Life, but my Purse, and that most damnably against my will; oh, what shall I do? Enter Captain. Capt. Ah, my Lord, they bear up briskly to us, with a fresh Gale and full Sails. Fran. Oh, dear Captain, let us tack about and go home again. Capt. 'Tis impossible to scape, we must fight it out. Fran.
Presently the sun rose over the pines, and the sand grew rapidly warm. My uncle had done eating, and sat with his wrists resting on his knees, the most hopeless looking of lost souls. "I'm ill," he said, "I'm damnably ill! I can feel it in my skin!" Then it was horrible to me he cried, "I ought to be in bed; I ought to be in bed... instead of flying about," and suddenly he burst into tears.
Socially and in the arts we Americans are the least democratic of people, partly because we are so damnably unsure of ourselves; and if I were beginning my career to-day I doubt if I should be so unbusiness-like as to take the lowly Brontes as a model.
They persecuted the girls in charge most damnably. Very often only one girl was in charge. The younger Hazlitt would at once seat himself on the other counter and shriek out: "Nellie, when are you coming over here? I shall bag these sweets if you don't buck up." He would then seize a huge glass jar of peppermints, and roll it along the zinc counter.
He felt, therefore, somewhat sore against the Brattles; and then there was the fact that Carry Brattle, who had been regularly "subpoenaed," had kept herself out of the way, most flagitiously, illegally and damnably. She had run off from Salisbury, just as though she were a free person to do as she pleased with herself, and not subject to police orders!
"Monsieur l'Américain," he said, lowering his point and coming up quite close to Calvert, "Monsieur, you have a trick of being damnably mal apropos. I have had a lesson from you in skating and one in singing, but I need none in love-making. My patience never very great, I fear is at an end, sir!
It was, therefore, no remarkable instance of good luck that the express time for announcing that I had contracted that species of marriage was the express time for my wanting the assistance of those kind-hearted friends. Then, too, by the pleasing sympathies in worldly opinion, the neglect of one's friends is always so damnably neighboured by the exultation of one's foes!
"You know why I listened to him, Stuart. You know that I didn't listen ... before his stroke. I didn't listen when I told him that if you went, I went, too, did I?" The man's face paled and with a spasmodic gesture he covered it with his hands. "My God!" he exclaimed, "I don't think I've ever said such a damnably mean and caddish thing before and to you!"
And, to comply with her invitation, we crammed and twisted till we owned ourselves thoroughly cured of thirst, which before did damnably plague us.
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