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He was what they said he was, a scamp without principle or honour. Paul whistled himself out of the Shelley lane and over the hill. Then he flung himself down under the spruces, crushed his face into the spicy frosted ferns, and had his black hour alone.
'We couldn't choose a nicer one; let us have him. But when they inquired about him they found that Scamp was not for sale just yet. Then toward evening, when it was growing dusk, he suddenly heard a voice that made his heart leap, and he jumped up and whined with excitement, and Ethel cried: 'Oh, father, there he is!
He went to the play one night for you see I'm down here readin' for my little go during the Long, only I come over from Baymouth pretty often in my drag well, sir, we went to the play, and Pen was struck all of a heap with Miss Fotheringay Costigan her real name is an uncommon fine gal she is too; and the next morning I introduced him to the General, as we call her father a regular old scamp and such a boy for the whisky-and-water! and he's gone on being intimate there.
I have known some rascals say, they were sorry they had not been lucky enough to be wounded, as they considered a punctured cuticle nothing to set against the magnificent douceur of four or five rupees. One impetuous scamp, being told not to go in front of the line during a beat near Burgamma, replied to the warning caution of his jemadar, 'Oh never mind, if get shot I will get backsheesh.
Her wrath was raised to the highest pitch however, when she discovered that Shyuote was the aggressor. On a little eminence near by stood the scamp, dancing, cutting capers, and yelling triumphantly. "Shyuote is small, but he knows how to throw." "Fiend," cried Sayap in reply.
Nobleman's cloaks are favored here. They're of Spanish cut. That exactly suits the Glippers' faces. Good Dutch cloth is thrown into the corner. Ho, ho, Brother Crooklegs, we'll put you on parade." "Pray, most noble Captain " "I'll blow away your most noble, you worthless scamp, you arrant rascal! First come, first served, is the rule in Holland, and has been ever since the days of Adam and Eve.
He did not remember having ever seen him before, and yet the young scamp was evidently well acquainted with his past life, for he had cast the name of Paul in his face, as a deadly insult. Surely this was enough to make the viscount shudder! How did it happen that this young man had been just on the spot ready to pick up Wilkie's hat? Was it mere chance? Certainly not. He could not believe it.
He astonished me by telling me he had been a deserter, long ago, when a lad, after two years in the Rifle Brigade, where he was sickened by tyranny of some sort. He confessed, after re-enlistment, and was pardoned. He had been fourteen years in his present corps, and had got on well. Opposite is a young scamp of Roberts's Horse. I asked him what he would do next.
He was no longer the cunning dealer in second-hand articles, the old scamp with the sharp, vulgar face, so well known at all public sales, where he sat in the front rank, watching for good bargains, and keeping cool when all around him were in a state of fervent excitement. The two letters he had just read had opened anew in his heart more than one badly-healed and badly-scarred wound.
De Peyster had secretly married without his mother's knowledge, and that the young scamp and his wife were secretly living in her house can't you just see the reporters jimmying open every window to get at us!" "Oh!" breathed Mrs. De Peyster faintly. "Really, Jack," protested the girlish voice, "I think it's scandalous of us to be doing this!"
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