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Rushton, "he's a jack-a-napes, and if he comes within the reach of my cane, I'll break it over his rascally shoulders! I'd rather have this Indian cub who has just left us." "That's all very well; but you can't get him." "Can't get him?" asked Rushton, grimly, as he got into the saddle. "He would never consent to coop himself up in Winchester.
"Then you see, monsieur, that there is no use throwing us overboard just now, because we should drift away to the westward, and your late vessel and crew must be somewhere to the eastward," said I, as boldly as I could, though I had no little difficulty in getting out the words. "Ah! you von Jack-a-napes, you von poule littel fighting coc, I see," he remarked in an altered tone.
"Well, that is a very pretty thing, there can be no doubt then you have money at use?" "And who is the debtor?" sneeringly inquired the jack-a-napes Hightail. "No other, my Lord Hightail, than the realm of Great Britain." "Exquisite, that, egad! A noble's fortune in the custody of the realm of a Greek a "
They want something at the book-shop or the milliner's; because, I suppose, there is a chance that some Jack-a-napes of an ensign may be there buying sticking plaster. In short, I do grow a little uneasy; for I should not like to see all I have saved thrown away on a knapsack. So saying, they both rose and walked out to view the farm. Mr.
"As I was running up stairs with Colonel Leson's shoes, I see'd the coachman bring in his portmanteau." "Well, Jack-a-napes, what of that?" cried Jenkins; "is a nobleman always to carry his equipage about him, like a snail with its shell on its back? To be sure, this foreign lord, or prince, is only come to stay here till his own house is fit for him. I will be civil to him."
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