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If it were the deuce's own scribble, and yo' axed me to read in it for yo'r sake, and th' oud gentleman's, I'd do it. Whatten's this, wench? I'm not going for to take yo'r brass, so dunnot think it. We've been great friends, 'bout the sound o' money passing between us. 'For the children for Boucher's children, said Margaret, hurriedly. 'They may need it. You've no right to refuse it for them.

How narrowly he just escaped true greatness. I would no more cast reproaches upon that noble gentleman than I would upon my grandmother; but he was a trifle serous, wasn't he? He was brave, prompt, resourceful, splendid, and, at need, gingerish as the best colt in the paddock. It is the deuce's own pity for a man to be born to too much seriousness.

"Not while this infernal noise what the deuce's up? It sounds more like a dog-fight than anything else." As we ran towards the main hatch I recognized the aptness of the comparison. It was that sort of vicious, snarling, yelping clamour which arises all at once and suddenly dies. "Castro! Thou Castro!" "Malediction... My eyelids..." "Thou! Englishman's dog!" "Ha! Porco." The voices ceased.

He was much interested, finally, in our methods of travel, and then, in logical sequence, with what he could see about him. He watched curiously my loading of the canoe, for I had a three-mile stretch of open water, and the wind was abroad. Deuce's empirical boat wisdom aroused his admiration. He and his son were both at the shore to see me off. Deuce settled himself in the bottom.

And now "here, with another revolting change, he turned his lips back to show his tooth "And now," said he, "you fish-eyed, jelly-gutted, staring, misbegotten bottle of bile, who in the deuce's name lent you the impudence to listen to my confidential histories without so much as letting me know your fool's name hey?"

Pendennis?" he said; "I thought you'd remember it. I take it, it was the first tune of that sort you ever heard played wasn't it, sir? You were quite a young chap then. I fear the Captain's very bad to-night. He breaks out on a pay-day; and I shall have the deuce's own trouble in getting home. We live together.

And here, it seems, he was close up with this island on the sixth, sails all these days, and is close up with it again by daylight on the eleventh." "Goddedaal said they had the deuce's luck," said Carthew. "Well, it don't look like real life that's all I can say," returned Wicks. "It's the way it was, though," argued Carthew.

Here it was that the anguish began, and of course to Dan'l, who found himself for the first time in his life sitting in the chaise instead of in the saddle, 'twas the deuce's own torment to hold himself still, feel the time slipping away, and not be riding and getting every ounce out of the beasts: though, even to his eye, the rider in front was no fool.

An English gentlewoman, were she one of the rabid 'Saints' that most straitest sect of Protestants that would leave their whole family to starve if the said family did anything 'improper' may play the deuce's own delight in her own bedroom, and need not be 'improper, but she would look on herself as lost if she received a visit from a man of her acquaintance in the aforesaid room.

"Your lordship has but a faint idea of the burdens Lord Mount Severn had upon him. The interest alone upon his debts was frightful and the deuce's own work it was to get it. Not to speak of the kites he let loose; he would fly them, and nothing could stop him; and they had to be provided for." "Oh, I know," replied the earl, with a gesture of contempt.