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He, therefore sneaked off, in order to save himself from being either kicked or horse-whipped. Ludlow was taken back to the School by his Father, and having subsequently formed connections, he got into business, and has lived in the own of Andover ever since.
Yes; I to beg pardon of you, and humbly and honestly too. And now you see how you have received me. Yes," he continued fiercely; "no word between us from henceforth. You have horse-whipped me, sir, and I, who never took a blow from man yet without returning it, have taken your horse-whipping.
When I overheard Gary telling those men to cut the fence it seemed to me that it was the meanest scheme I ever had heard of. I was so angry I could have horse-whipped Gary. At the time I believe I wasn't thinking of you at all I just kept seeing those poor cows wandering away in the storm, to freeze to death in the open. And I determined to ride over here and prevent it.
"Ah! hem hem Hourigan, you are a d d ras hem simple-hearted fellow, I think, or you wouldn't spake as you do. "But an I to get not justice sir, against the man that left me as you see me. Is the poor man, sir, to be horse-whipped and cut up at the will an' pleasure of the rich, an'not to get either law or justice?" O'Driscol's face was now a picture of most ludicrous embarrassment and distress.
Yes, you may stare it's many a long year since the name of Kate Clank reached your ears, and now that you have heard it, it is not to bless you. Well, you remember when you heard it last on the day you hunted your dogs at me, and threatened to have me horse-whipped ay, to horse-whip me with your own hands, should I ever come near your cursed house.
Henry Burton horse-whipped him on the Doncaster race-course, that I know; but whether it was about Cinderella that had, they said, been tampered with the night before the race, or Miss Elizabeth Grainsford, whom Burton married a few weeks afterwards, I can't, as Tom Harris says, quite clearly remember."
The latter could not for some time imagine that the war was real; until they found that their children were horse-whipped by the grieve when found trespassing; that their asses were poinded by the ground-officer when left in the plantations, or even when turned to graze by the roadside, against the provision of the turnpike acts; that the constable began to make curious inquiries into their made of gaining a livelihood, and expressed his surprise that the men should sleep in the hovels all day, and be abroad the greater part of the night.
The mother had lost her good name, she was now known only by such titles as the 'criminal, the 'prostitute, and the 'horse-whipped woman. The younger brother was known only as the son of his mother, because he had such a pleasant disposition that they did not believe him to be the son of the incendiary. Finally the famous Bálat fell one day into the hands of Justice.
"Women have a hard time of it in this world, even under the best of circumstances, and whatever man makes it harder for them, should be horse-whipped within an inch of his life, if I had my way. I have a wife and a young daughter and my old mother sits at home with us, as cheery and bright a body as you would find in all France, and so I know the worth of women.
We were just passing the numerous shows upon the vacant lots. One of the signs attracted him, and he said, 'Father, let us go in and see the big hog! The little scamp! I could have horse-whipped him! said the father, who loving a joke, could not help laughing at the ludicrous incident. The party took passage to Cairo, Illinois, in the beautiful river steamer "Magnolia."
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