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'Allow me to say, you would not touch me. 'And how do you know I'm not a trifle handy with the maulers myself? 'You will pardon me for saying, it would be worse for you if you were. The pork-butcher was flung backward. 'Are you a Professor, may I inquire? Skepsey rejected the title. 'I can engage to teach young men, upon a proper observance of first principles.
But the glib many, the perky mispronouncers of titles and of authors' names, the twanging murderers of rhythm, the maulers of the uncut edge at sixpence extra, the ready-reckoners of bibliopolic discount am I to see in these a witness of my hope for the century to come? I am told that their semi-education will be integrated.
The professional biographers will cut in for a share in the spoil, and the brains of impudence will be ransacked to eke out the stories of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Lives of Christ are becoming quite fashionable. Fleetwood's honest but prosaic book had fallen into-neglect. The very maulers of old bookstalls thrust out their tongues at at.
One thing was common between us we had no regard for one another. I now assumed as bold a manner as I could and a rough East End accent. "Look-ee 'ere," said I: "I know you don't keer for me no more 'an I keers for you. I ain't afraid o' no man, and I'll tell you what it is: it's your ignorance of who I am that makes you bold. I know you ain't a bad un with the maulers.
Stood out agin bein' a crook as long as ever I could as long as ever I'm goin' to, I reckon, now you've got your maulers on me. I'll be on the list after this. The cops 'ull know me; and when you've got the nime well, wot's the odds? You might as well 'ave the gime as well, and git over goin' empty. All right, run me in, sir.
Never was ill work better done than when, on that radiant veld, the sky one vast turquoise vault, beneath which quivered a shimmer of quicksilver light, the pom-poms, the maulers, and the shrapnel of Kruger's men mowed down Stafford and his battery, showered them, drowned them in a storm of lead.
'Allow me to say, you would not touch me. 'And how do you know I'm not a trifle handy with the maulers myself? 'You will pardon me for saying, it would be worse for you if you were. The pork-butcher was flung backward. 'Are you a Professor, may I inquire? Skepsey rejected the title. 'I can engage to teach young men, upon a proper observance of first principles.
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