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I had Cambronne clutching his cocked hat and uttering the immortal la Garde meurt et ne se rend pas. I had the "Vengeur" going down, and all the crew hurraying like madmen. What man who has been before the public at all has not heard similar wonderful anecdotes regarding himself and his own history? In these humble essaykins I have taken leave to egotize.
Scotch ale is very good and strong, but it is not stronger than all the other beer in the world, as some Scottish patriots would insist. When there has been a war, and stout old Sandy Sansculotte returns home from India or Crimea, what a bagpiping, shouting, hurraying, and self-glorification takes place round about him!
Or I would see him on some parterre of a platform beside my aunt's hurraying hat, amidst titles and costumes, "holding his end up," as he would say, subscribing heavily to obvious charities, even at times making brief convulsive speeches in some good cause before the most exalted audiences. "Mr.
"Why don't you keep your mouth shut, Ginger?" ses Sam. "Five pounds!" I ses. "Five pounds! Hurrah!" "Wot are you hurraying about?" ses Sam, very short. "Why," I ses, "I s'pose Here, arf a moment!" "Can't stop," ses Sam, going arter the others.
"Why don't you keep your mouth shut, Ginger?" ses Sam. "Five pounds!" I ses. "Five pounds! Hurrah!" "Wot are you hurraying about?" ses Sam, very short. "Why," I ses, "I s'pose Here, arf a moment!" "Can't stop," ses Sam, going arter the others.
And it was at this declivity when at evening the whole English line received the order to advance, as the enemy fell back after his last charge, that the Captain, hurraying and rushing down the hill waving his sword, received a shot and fell dead. "It was Major Dobbin who took back the Captain's body to Brussels," the Sergeant said, in a low voice, "and had him buried, as your honour knows."
I tell you I love her." But he disguised these feelings under an enormous bellowing and hurraying. As for Miss Fotheringay and her behaviour, the reader is referred to a former page for an account of that. She went through precisely the same business. She surveyed the house all round with glances of gratitude; and trembled, and almost sank with emotion, over her favourite trap-door.
The hurraying brought out the old Doctor himself, who put his hand up to his spectacles and started when he saw the old pupil. Each blushed when he recognized the other; for seven years ago they had parted not good friends. "What Davison?" the Doctor said, with a tremulous voice. "God bless you, my dear fellow!" and they shook hands.
He had fired astonishing volleys of what is called "chaff" into endless windows as he passed; into lines of grinning girls' schools; into little regiments of shouting urchins hurraying behind the railings of their Classical and Commercial Academies; into casements whence smiling maid-servants, and nurses tossing babies, or demure old maiden ladies with dissenting countenances, were looking.
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