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It was he who had settled the young artist in the Avenue de Villiers, compelling him to have a little mansion of his own, furnishing it as he would have furnished a place for a hussy, running him into debt with supplies of carpets and nick-nacks, so that he might afterwards hold him at his mercy; and now he began to accuse him of lacking orderliness and seriousness, of compromising himself like a feather-brain.
"I'm wae to see your father's son in such a corner, and all my comfort is that every tenant in Elrig and Braleckan pays at the Tolbooth or gallows of Inneraora town for this night's frolic." "A great consolation to think of!" said John Splendid. The goodwife, a nervous body at her best, sobbed away with her pock-marked hussy in the parlour, but Betty was to the fore in a passion of vexation.
The little hussy, in the latter case, slept also alone in a room next to her mother's, through whose chamber one had to pass to get to the daughter's. One night I came in at one o'clock, and not feeling inclined to sleep, I took a candle and went in search of my charmer.
His answer was a leering grin that made his face hideous. He looked like a wounded animal, with nothing but concentrated passion in his eyes. Her act had maddened him. "I'll fix you, you hussy!" he sneered cursing.
"She is the most graceless hussy imaginable," I cried. "There was he grinding his heart out for her, and just because a more brazen-throated scoundrel came upon the scene she must needs leave our poor friend in the lurch. She has no more heart than my boot, and she will come to a bad end." "But he was such a fool," retorted my sage damsel, with a flash of laughter in her dark eyes.
He's locoed, too, about that little black-eyed hussy. Why, he hardly said, 'Howdy, Bill, before he begun to ask wild an' eager questions. I took him in to see Bonita. He's been there more 'n a half-hour now." Evidently Stillwell's sensitive feelings had been ruffled. Madeline's curiosity changed to blank astonishment, which left her with a thrilling premonition. She caught her breath.
For thus saith the Lord: There shall be no lusting of adultery among his chosen. And thus say I, that no brazen hussy in men's garments shall travel with this train to Zion no, not a mile of the way." Jenks stiffened, bristling. "Mind your words, Adams. I'm under no Mormon thumb, and I'll thank you not to connect me and this lady in ary such fashion.
He was conscious of his surrounding, recognized its actuality; yet, at the same time, it seemed immaterial, like the setting of a dream. He roused himself after a little and smoked, nodding his head to emphasize the points of his thought. This Polder had shown the instinct of breeding; while Mariana was just what she was he couldn't for the life of him determine. A hussy, he decided temporarily.
Ads-heartikins! you young gentlemen are made of iron and steel, I think; I'm sure, said he, my heart's turned into butter, and is running away at my eyes. I never felt the like before. Said my master, with an imperious tone, Get out of my presence, hussy! I can't bear you in my sight. Sir, said I, I'm going as fast as I can.
"What they see in 'im!" whispered the astounded Mr. Thompson to his wife. "And did you marry the beautiful girl in the photograph?" demanded Mrs. Boxer, in trembling accents. "I did," said her husband. "Hussy," cried Mrs. Boxer. "I married her," said Mr. Boxer, considering "I married her at Camberwell, in eighteen ninety-three." "Eighteen ninety-three!" said his wife, in a startled voice.
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