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"Lend me your hammer and a chisel, if you please, Mr. Dugdale," said the officer. "Please read that paper over again, will thee?" asked the Quaker. The officer once more read the warrant. "I see nothing there which says I must furnish thee with tools to open my door. If thee wants a hammer, thee must go elsewhere for it; I tell thee plainly, thee can't have mine."
The speaker of all this had come flying out of the hall-door a vision of flounces, gaiety, and heartiness, had given the pony a few pats, or rather slaps, en passant, and now stood balancing herself on one of the spokes of the wheel, and leaning over into the carriage. "Is that you, Harrie? Agatha, this is my sister Mrs. Dugdale."
Antiquarians have unanimously rejected the fanciful legend adopted by Dugdale concerning the SS collar, as well as many not less ingenious interpretations of the mystic letters; and at the present time it is almost unanimously settled that the SS collar is the old Lancastrian badge, corresponding to the Yorkist collar of Roses and Suns, and that the S is either the initial of the sentimental word 'Souvenez, or, as Mr.
You may be sure I didn't think of Mary Dugdale, the bride that was, nor of poor Jones, neither; although he is a good looking man enough I never said he wasn't. But my heart was in my mouth thinking of that dear Dook of Mauleverer-Wolverhampton." "Who in the name of fortune is he?" asked nurse. "A hero of mine," said Betty.
And he kept a stately court, having for his chief officers Mr. Besides these eighteen Placemen, Pallaphilos had many other mock officers, whose names are not recorded, and he was attended by a body-guard of fourscore members of the Inn. From the pages of Gerard Leigh and Dugdale, the reader can obtain a sufficiently minute account of the pompous ceremonials and heavy buffooneries of the season.
It was required that whoever had borne arms for the king, should forfeit the tenth of their estates; or, if that did not suffice, the sixth, for the payment of public debts. * Rush. vol. vi. p. 850. Dugdale, p. 737. The Presbyterians, it must be confessed, after insisting on such conditions, differed only in words from the Independents, who required the establishment of a pure republic.
Little Brian opened wide his large grey eyes at the mention of his honoured namesake. But while he gazed, his papa's pudding-laden spoon stopped half-way on its journey to the baby-mouth that was waiting for it Duke Dugdale was in a reverie. He did not even hear the little clamourer on his knee. "Really, now, that's very odd, very odd indeed." And he felt anxiously in his pocket.
Then by using your eyes, you could have told whether Mr. Dugdale was surprised at seeing the spoon there, or not. His actions more than anything he might say would have given you a pointer, don't you see?" "Yes, I can understand that all right, now you've mentioned it, Hugh," chuckled the other. "It's so easy to grip a thing after some one has shown you how.
"Course I don't pretend to be a smart enough reader of human nature to say positively that old Mr. Dugdale is all to the good; but he is well read, and I seemed to see what looked like a twinkle in the corners of his eyes as though he might have a fair sense of humor in his make-up." "He liked you, too, didn't he, Thad?" continued Hugh.
"Oh, certainly!" I answered, rather bitterly. "Needs must when the devil drives; so lead on, most courteous senor." "Look here, Dugdale," said he, apparently rather hurt by my tone, "you must not feel yourself aggrieved at my action in this matter. What I propose to do is for your own good and safety, quite as much as by way of a safeguard of my own.
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