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And here was another prediction of hers, equally improbable, fulfilled to the letter. 'Great Scott! he cried. 'Are you going to be married? Mr Prosser and the manager started simultaneously. 'Mrs Dorman said you would be, said Owen. 'Don't you remember? Mr Prosser looked keenly at him. 'Why, I've seen you before, he said. 'You're the young turnip-headed scallywag at the farm.
It was to be hushed up on her account and on their account alone. It was his little meditative pose that made me call him a thundering scallywag and accuse him of having calculated on the line that would be taken. He said quietly, "The word thundering is singularly inappropriate. There's nothing thundering about me. I haven't calculated anything.
You can rest easy on that score, Miss Whichello. But my advice is, don't pick him up out of the mire; he'll only fall back into it again. 'You have a bad opinion of him, Miss Mosk. 'The very worst, replied Bell, conducting her guest to the door; 'he's a gaol-bird and a scallywag, and all that's bad. Well, good-night, Miss Whichello, and thank you for the jelly.
To Reggie, Jevons was simply an amusing little scallywag who could write. That Viola should have taken Jevons seriously surpassed his imagination of the possible. So that she never was in any danger of discovery, and there was no need for her manoeuvres.
The latitude and longitude are mine, and the bearings from the oak ribs on the shoal to Lion's Head, and the cross-bearings from the points unnamable, I only know. I only still live of all that brave, mad, scallywag ship's company . . . " "Will you sign the articles to that?" the Jew demanded, cutting in on the ancient's maunderings. "What port do you wind up the cruise in?" Daughtry asked.
It is perhaps little wonder that I associate Teufelsdrockh, the mind-wanderer, with those days of my own life. And yet, unless I live to be old, I shall never read the book again. The tramp, or traveller, or beach-comber, or general scallywag finds little time and little chance to read. And for the most part we must own he cares little for literature in any form. But I was not always wandering.
Them strung-out, trained-to-a-hair, high-falutin girls never did fetch me. I like 'em round, and soft, and innocent. What's her name, sonny?" "Sarah." "Sairy! Bud, I don't believe that. Sairy! I never did cotton to Sairy. Yer pullin' my leg, ye young scallywag. The nerve! No ye don't." Jeff had stretched out a long, lean arm, and seized the boy by the shoulder in a grasp which tightened cruelly.
Many men who know Chinatown distrust its shadows, but the furtive fear of which Grantham had become aware was due not to anticipation but to memory to a memory conjured up by that gesture of Zahara's. There were few people in London or elsewhere who knew the history of this scallywag Englishman.
But none of the boys felt like risking their bones even to cure Sable, so the panting animal was led to the stable and for the rest of the day allowed to think over his bad conduct. But that was not the last of the runaway, for in the evening just after supper old Mr. Trimble paid a visit to Tom's father. "I came over to tell you what a scallywag of a boy you've got," began the cross old man.
His people in the East, who had thwarted his youth, vexed and cramped him, saw only evil in his widening desires, and threw him over when he came out West the scallywag, they called him, who had never wronged a man or a woman? Never wronged a woman? The question sprang to his lips now. Suddenly he saw it all in a new light.
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