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"If I was you, George," continued the merciless Harvey; "I'd lay for that Rollin. Gad, I'd set a match to his hair. I'd nettle him!" "I'd show him his p-p-place!" stammered Ned Vickery, with considerable warmth. "I would, certainly," reiterated the automatic Lovell "I'd show him his place, you know; I would certainly."
"I thought I'd come up to congratulate personally both you and the city, and talk things over in a general way, Colonel; sorry to find you so used up, but in a good cause." The Colonel beamed. "A matter of a day or two of rest. You did good work, Mr. Wiggins, good work," he whispered; "you'd make a good parliamentary whip 'Gad, my voice is gone! but as you say, in a good cause a good cause "
You've got that old over-your-shoulder look to you, Getaway. My father had it. My mother too. Getaway!" "By gad! you can't beat a woman!" "You don't deny it." "I do!" "Oh, Getaway, I'm glad then, glad!" "Over-the-shoulder look. Why, if I'd meet a plain-clothes this minute I'd go up and kiss him with my teeth in his ear. That's how much I got to be afraid of." "Oh, Getaway, I'm so glad!"
"Say, by gad, though! that bird is a fright!" ejaculated George suddenly, "Holy Doodle! just listen to what he said then? . . . If ever he starts in to hand out tracts like that when the O.C.'s up here inspecting he'll get invested with the Order of the 'Neck-Wring' for usurping his pet privilege. You'd better let Brankley the quartermaster have him. He was up here the other day and heard him.
He handed them the wire and they read: "Meet me eight to-night Kings Arms urgent. Carrington." "From Mr. Carrington!" exclaimed his sister. Ned smiled. "Cicely will explain him too," he said. "By Gad, I wonder if this is going to be the finishing bit of luck!" In another twenty minutes the lights of his gig lamps were raking the night.
He selected the tribe of Gad as the first to be counted, because he thought that the Gadites, independent and self-willed, would hinder the execution of the royal order, and David would be forced to give up his plan of taking a census.
'Gad, he's beginning young, said my uncle, quite good-humouredly. ''Faith, Fagan, that boy's a Brady, every inch of him. 'And I'll tell you what, Mr. B., cried Quin, bristling up: 'I've been insulted grossly in this 'OUSE. I ain't at all satisfied with these here ways of going on.
The convict uttered a savage cry, and raising the iron gad, plunged forward desperately to attack this new enemy; but, quick as thought, the child glided past Frere, and, snatching the loaf, placed it in the hands of the starving man, with "Here, poor prisoner, eat!" and then, turning to Frere, she cast upon him a glance so full of horror, indignation, and surprise, that the man blushed and threw down the brand.
And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and did not intend to go up against them in battle, to destroy the land wherein the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt. And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar Ed: for it shall be a witness between us that the LORD is God.
Juve happened to glance casually at the nearest leaf, and uttered an exclamation of surprise and gratification. "Gad, here's something interesting!" and he drew the magistrate's attention to some little pilules of earth with which the plant was peppered. "What is that?" enquired M. de Presles.
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