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"Much better than that," said the prize-fighter. "Much better than THAT, sir, I assure you." "Well, I'm going to get you to do something for me," said the Major. "Do you know, John, that you are terribly fat?" "The business allus does make flesh, sir. More especially to coves as has trained much." "Yes, yes, John, I am going from the point. There is a young man of the name of Hawker here?"
So well did he make it a point to see Lilian in the afternoons, that the time came when she accepted him for better or worse, and when he prayed privily and fervently that it was not for worse. During this period no prize-fighter ever trained more harshly and faithfully for a contest than he trained to subdue the wild savage in him.
He sprang forward and plunged his long knife into the protruding injected eye of the bear, then leaped aside, his dripping knife in his hand, and danced about the maddened beast with the agility of a modern prize-fighter.
It missed the object for which it was intended, and came plump into the eye of Robberts, giving to that respectable individual for some time thereafter the appearance of a prize-fighter in livery. Charlie started for home in the highest spirits, which, however, became considerably lower on his discovering his mother's view of his late exploits was very different from his own. Mrs.
When I was in the Legislature and was working very hard, with little chance of getting out of doors, all the exercise I got was boxing and wrestling. A young fellow turned up who was a second-rate prize-fighter, the son of one of my old boxing teachers. For several weeks I had him come round to my rooms in the morning to put on the gloves with me for half an hour.
That was a task of some difficulty, for Rover had got his blood up and was fighting desperately, making the feathers fly in all directions; and even his antagonist was using all the weapons that nature had given him, and was striking out like a prize-fighter, fighting with wings and beak, and sometimes with feet, in a manner that would have excited the admiration of a cock-fighting padre.
"Ran foul of the big end of a handspike," answered Captain Benson, quietly; "he'll carry his arm in splints all the way home, I think. His name is Gunner Meagher. I don't know how they got their names, but they signed them and will answer to them. They are unique. Look at that outlaw down there by the bitts. That is Poop-deck Cahill. Looks like a prize-fighter, doesn't he?
Even in my bedroom, opening on the side gallery of the peristyle, we heard, from over the roofs, cries of: "The tyrant is dead! The despot is dead! The prize-fighter is dead! The murderer is dead!" "The news is out!" Agathemer ejaculated, and he breathed a prayer to Mercury, in which I joined.
"I 'eard something about her to-day, Ginger," ses Peter Russet. "I met a chap I used to know at Bull's Wharf, and he told me that she used to keep company with a chap named Bill Lumm, a bit of a prize-fighter, and since she gave 'im up she won't look at anybody else." "Was she very fond of 'im, then?" asks Ginger.
"And now, Lydia," he added, "may I ask what you intend to do in this matter?" "What would you have me do?" "Drop his acquaintance at once. Forbid him your house in the most explicit terms." "A pleasant task!" said Lydia, ironically. "But I will do it not so much, perhaps, because he is a prize-fighter, as because he is an impostor.
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