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Bender, how does a chap feel when he's in love?" "Very foolish, judging from yourself," returned William; and Henry replied, "I hope you mean nothing personal, for I'm bound to avenge my honor, and t'would be a deuced scrape for you and me to fight about 'your sister, as you call her, for 'tis she who has inspired me, or made a fool of me, one or the other."
Francis Gordon felt very uncomfortable. It was deuced hard to be bullied by a woman! He stood silent, because he had nothing to say. 'Do you mean to marry my Phemy? asked Kirsty. 'Really, Miss Barclay, Francis began, but Kirsty interrupted him. 'Mr. Gordon, she said sternly, 'be a man, and answer me. If you mean to marry her, say so, and go and tell her father or my father, if you prefer.
"He shall be attended to," answered poor Archie, who was trying to bring up the little marplot with the success of most parents and guardians. "The whole thing was deuced disagreeable," growled Steve, who felt that he had not distinguished himself in the late engagement. "Truth generally is," observed Mac dryly as he strolled away with his odd smile. As if he suspected discord somewhere, Dr.
"Go on." "I am going on. Well! he put his head across the little table, and said to me in a low whisper, cocking his odd-looking eye at the same time, 'I tell you what, Essper, you are a deuced sharp fellow! and so, giving a shake of his head and another wink of his eye, he was quiet. I dare say, now, you and I are thinking of the same thing. 'No doubt of it, said Rodolph.
"The fact would be a deuced unpleasant point for young Shackford to run against," said Mr. Ward. "Exactly." "If Mr. Lemuel Shackford," remarked Coroner Whidden, softly joining the conversation to which he had been listening in his timorous, apologetic manner, "had chanced, in the course of his early sea-faring days, to form any ties of an unhappy complexion" "Complexion is good," murmured Mr.
Lord! to hear him say how sorry he was, and to see how glad he looked at the chance of serving us! 'Serving us! Tom sneered. 'Ha! went Andrew. 'Yes. There. You're a deuced deal prouder than fifty peers. You're an upside-down old despot!
Besides its deuced cold night, and coal costs money, you know, Stella," added the fellow less savagely, as, glancing quietly at him, and leading her boy, she slowly moved toward the big coal stove. "Let 'em warm themselves, can't you?" exclaimed one of the men sitting at a table and shuffling cards for a game. "Whose hinderin' 'em? I aint!
I say, Dob, I feel just as I did on the morning I went out with Rocket at Quebec." "So do I," William responded. "I was a deuced deal more nervous than you were that morning. You made a famous breakfast, I remember. Eat something now." "You're a good old fellow, Will. I'll drink your health, old boy, and farewell to " "No, no; two glasses are enough," Dobbin interrupted him.
'I think it will be a fine day, he said, taking his chin out of his great puddingy-spotted neckcloth, and turning his spectacled face up to the clouds. 'The want of light is its chief fault, observed Jack, adding, 'it's deuced dark! 'Ah, it'll get better of that, observed his lordship.
Came down yesterday to try to earn some money," he continued, cheerfully making himself agreeable. "Deuced clever woman, much too clever for me and Jerry too. Always in a tete-a-tete with an antiquarian or a pathologist, or a psychologist, and tells novelists what to put into their next books and jurists how to decide cases.
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