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Squills, "Squire Rollick, the hardest head at a bargain I know of, did not Squire Rollick sell that pretty little farm of his, Scranny Holt, for thirty per cent below its value? And what was the cause, sir? The whole county was in amaze! What was the cause, but an incipient simmering attack of the yellow jaundice, which made him take a gloomy view of human life and the agricultural interest?
"Your namesake Pisistratus was wiser than you, then," said my father. "And now let us feed the duck. Where's your uncle?" "He has borrowed Mr. Squills's mare, sir, and gone with Squire Rollick to the great lord they were talking of." "Oho!" said my father; "brother Jack is going to print his butter!"
Squills, "Squire Rollick, the hardest head at a bargain I know of, did not Squire Rollick sell that pretty little farm of his, Scranny Holt, for thirty per cent below its value? And what was the cause, sir? The whole county was in amaze! What was the cause, but an incipient simmering attack of the yellow jaundice, which made him take a gloomy view of human life and the agricultural interest?
"Bless me, father," said eagerly the young Pisistratus, who had swallowed with ravished ears every syllable and figure of this inviting calculation, "why, we should be as rich as Squire Rollick; and then, you know, sir, you could keep a pack of fox-hounds." "And buy a large library," added Uncle Jack, with more subtle knowledge of human nature as to its appropriate temptations.
If he began to slaughter calves, and poach deer, and rollick around, and learn English, at the earliest likely moment say at thirteen, when he was supposably wrenched from that school where he was supposably storing up Latin for future literary use he had his youthful hands full, and much more than full.
Love is the most chastening of powers, and he did not even remember now that two days before he had told the wind and the twilight that he would certainly "roll and rollick in women" unless there was work for him to do. She had a peculiarly swift and easy stride that went with him in his thoughts along the turf by the wayside halfway and more to Chichester.
Kendal to come and play in "The Merry Wives of Windsor" a second time, I hoped that Ada Rehan would come and rollick with me as Mrs. Ford but it was not to be. Mr. Daly himself interested me greatly. He was an excellent manager, a man in a million. But he had no artistic sense. The productions of Shakespeare at Daly's were really bad from the pictorial point of view.
"Would it really, then, have injured my father so much?" "So much? Why, you foolish young man, don't you see that with his ignorance of business where he himself is concerned, though for any other one's business, neither Rollick nor Cool has a better judgment, and with his d d Quixotic spirit of honor worked up into a state of excitement, he would have rushed to Mr.
Squire Rollick, who had interrupted the speech by sundry approving exclamations, particularly at the mention of poor-rates, tithes, county-rates, mortgages, and poachers, here pushed the bottle to Uncle Jack, and said, civilly: "There's a great deal of truth in what you say, Mr. Tibbets. The agricultural interest is going to ruin; and when it does, I would not give that for Old England!" and Mr.
Caxton to the grandees of the neighborhood, and uttered by no less a person than Squire Rollick, of Rollick Hall, chairman of the quarter-sessions. But the mind of that deep and truly knowing man was not to be plumbed by a chit of my age.
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