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And between the city and the church is the field FLORIDUS, that is to say, the 'field flourished. For as much as a fair maiden was blamed with wrong, and slandered that she had done fornication; for which cause she was demned to death, and to be burnt in that place, to the which she was led.
"Besides, it's no good to me socially," the major continued. "The fellow can't keep quiet, else he might pass in a crowd; but that demned commercial instinct will show itself. If he went to heaven he'd start an agency for harps and crowns. Did I tell you what the Honourable Jack Gibbs said to me at the club? Ged, he let me have it straight! 'Buck, he said, 'I don't mind you.
"He'll be drinking in some public-house, I'se warrant, and the doag will have lost him." "Imph, that'll be the way o't." "I'm demned if he hasn't taken the Skeighan Road!" said Sandy Toddle, who had kept his eye on the minister. Toddle's accent was a varying quality. When he remembered he had been a packman in England it was exceedingly fine. But he often forgot.
Anyhow, the place has a demned unsavoury reputation and abuts on my land." "Indeed!" said I, stifling a yawn. "And what manner of neighbour is he to look at?" "Don't know never clapped eyes on the fellow nobody ever sees him. Fellow rarely stirs abroad and when he does, always in closed carriage muffled to the eyes queer fish and demned unpleasant, by all accounts."
Hello!" said Charles Svendt, agape at the too friendly greeting. "That you, Graeme?" "The worst half of me, my boy. Margaret's up at the house. You'll be quite a surprise to her." "Aw!" said Charles Svendt thoughtfully, as he readjusted his eyeglass. "Demned queer place, this!" and he gazed round lugubriously. "It is that, my boy. Queerer than you think, and queerer people." "Aw!
I remimber ould Gilder, when he was our chief in India, used to say that a man who got beyond enjoying beer and a clay pipe at a pinch was either an ass or a coxcomb. He smoked a clay at the mess table himself. Draper, who commanded the division, told him it was unsoldier-like. 'Unsoldier-like be demned, he said. Ged, they nearly court-martialled the ould man for it.
"Cunning!" said Brodie, breathing the word low in expressive admiration. "Demned cute!" said Sandy Toddle. "Very thmart!" said the Deacon. "But the place has been falling down since ever I have mind o't," said Sandy Toddle. "He's a very clever man if he makes anything out of that." "Well, well," said the Provost, "we'll soon see what he's meaning to be at.
If Gourlay suspected him of pulling the young fellow's leg, likely as not he would give an exhibition of his demned unpleasant manners. Gourlay and the minister came straight towards the student. Of the Rev. Mr. Struthers it may be said with truth that he would have cut a remarkable figure in any society.
So much pre-occupied was he at the club that he actually played out the thirteenth trump upon his partner's long suit and so sacrificed the game being the first and only time that he was ever known to throw away a point. He told Von Baumser all about it when he came back. "She's a demned foine-looking woman, whoever she may be," he remarked, at they sat together before turning in.
"Be Ged! sir," the veteran suddenly exclaimed, inflating his chest and turning his apoplectic face upon his companion, "in the old days I would have called the lot of you out, sir, every demned one, beginning with the committee and working down; I would, be George!"
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