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He will do anything but learn. The rogue! he once knew all his letters, but no sooner did he find they were the work of life, than he forgot every one, and was never so obstreperous as when called upon to say them. I gave up the point, but I foresee some fine scenes. 'His minding no one but you is an old story. I hope at least the exception continues. 'I have avoided testing it.
This moneyed fellow, meeting at the very brink of the bank of the ford with Friar Adam Crankcod, a Franciscan observantin of Mirebeau, promised him a new frock, provided that in the transporting of him over the water he would bear him upon his neck and shoulders, after the manner of carrying dead goats; for he was a lusty, strong-limbed, sturdy rogue.
Nobody but such a rogue as you would have given gentlemen of our faculty so much trouble. Sir, we have received advice by good hands from Belsize that you won sixty guineas to-day at play. Produce them immediately, or we shall take it for granted you have swallowed them; and in such a case, Sir, I have an instrument ready to give us an immediate account of the contents of your stomach.
"Enough!" growled red-faced Roger, "Sir Pertolepe's foresters we be, give us yon scurvy fool then, that we may hang him out of hand." "Nay," answered Beltane, "first let us reason together, let us hark to the wisdom of Folly and grow wise " "Ha, Roger!" cried one of the men, "tap me this tall rogue on his golden mazzard!"
"Yes, madame," replied the impudent rogue, very demurely; "like most people who tell their own stories, I was born of honest, but poor parents." "I believe your parents were honest; and now, Lionel, to reward you, I shall pay for your boots, and you may keep your sovereign." "Thank your ladyship," replied the lad. "I forgot to say that the cook is outside for orders."
I have for some time had a Friendship with one of these Mercurial Persons: The Rogue I know loves me, yet takes Advantage of my Fondness for him to use me as he pleases. We are by Turns the best Friends and the greatest Strangers imaginable; Sometimes you would think us inseparable; at other Times he avoids me for a long Time, yet neither he nor I know why.
Rashîd made a grimace at hearing of it and, when I asked him why, looked down his nose and said: 'He has our gun. 'Aye, to be sure, and so he has! I said. 'To-morrow I must not forget to ask him for it. Rashîd looked big with tidings, but restrained himself and merely growled: 'You will not ask for it. I know your Honour! Nor will that rogue return it of his own accord.
It is a curious instance of the thorough credulity of genuine spiritualists that a believer in this wretched rogue, on being circumstantially told this whole story, not only steadily and firmly refused to credit it, and continued his faith in the fellow, but absolutely would not go to see the application of any other test. That's the sort of follower that is worth having!
Villon's friends snapped at him furiously. Villon flung back the phrase. "Drunken dog, indeed! You are a lying, ill-favoured knave! Keep the door, friends, this rogue has insulted me. Pluck out your iron, soldier!"
With these words he did cry like a cow, but on a sudden fell a-laughing like a calf, when Pantagruel came into his mind. Ha, my little son, said he, my childilolly, fedlifondy, dandlichucky, my ballocky, my pretty rogue!
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