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"I was beated to-day," said Diana; "it was an enemy did it, and I'm going to have her shotted." "Oh, I wouldn't do that!" said the woman. "You might be hanged up for that." "What's being hanged up?" asked Diana. "It's something very bad I need not tell you now; but there are laws in this country, and if you shoot your enemies you are hanged up for it.
O Lord, what made them send for a puir bodie like me, sae mony braw lords and gentles! and there's my mither come on the lang tramp frae Glasgow to see to gar me testify, as she ca's it, that is to say, confess and be hanged; but deil tak me if they mak sic a guse o' Cuddie, if I can do better. But here's Claverhouse himsell the Lord preserve and forgie us, I say anes mair!"
As if by magic, the fabric of Romanism was broken to pieces in England, monasteries were suppressed and their abbots hanged, the authority of the Pope was swept away, and there was no powerful party, like that of the Guises in France to make such sweeping measures the occasion for civil war.
"And pray haven't I a right to amuse myself?" "No, not with the affairs of the British Empire on your hands." "The British Empire be hanged! You're always laughing at it." "Amuse yourself with talking to me," said Isabel. "I'm not sure it's really a recreation. You're too pointed; I've always to be defending myself. And you strike me as more than usually dangerous to-night.
Look after Dandy, will you, like a good chap? 'Oh, Dandy be hanged,! I said, for I knew it was not the fight, nor the watching, nor the long ride that had shaken his iron nerve and given him that face. 'Go in and lie down I'll bring you something. 'Wake me in the afternoon, he said; 'she is waiting.
All your travel won't help you to get a job; but if you could go into a newspaper office and say, 'I know more about Upper Clapton, or Stockwell, or some such beastly place than any man living, or 'I'm a crime expert, and I can give the names, and dates of execution, of every man hanged in London for the last twenty years, then they'd welcome you as a long-lost brother, and give you about ten pounds a week."
But let me do no more than ask a favour, and it is, 'What of my good name, madame? What of my seneschalship? Am I to be gaoled or hanged to pleasure you? Faugh!" she ended, with a toss of her splendid head. "The world is peopled with your kind, and I alas! for a woman's intuitions had held you different from the rest." Her words were to his soul as a sword of fire might have been to his flesh.
As for moving-picture men and newspaper correspondents, Jinks and Blinks hanged them on every tree in Belgium and Poland. With combatants in this frame of mind the war I suppose might have lasted forever. But it came to an end accidentally, fortuitously, as all great wars are apt to. And by accident also, I happened to see the end of it. It was late one evening.
He's so stiff he'll topple easy." "Oh, please don't ever!" cried the lady, turning to Lewis. "I'll give you money to tip him." She turned back to Leighton. "They're so hard to get with legs, Glen." "Legs be hanged!" said Leighton. "Our age is trading civility for legs. The face that welcomes you to a house should be benign " "There you go," broke in the lady.
English Ben was sent aft, and in a few moments came forward, looking as though he had received his sentence to be hanged. The captain had told him to get his things ready to go on board the brig next morning; and that I would give him thirty dollars and a suit of clothes. The hands had ``knocked off'' for dinner, and were standing about the forecastle, when Ben came forward and told his story.
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