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My idea is that the man what carried that book into the shop is the man what scragged my poor old relative fact, mister! Levendale, he wouldn't tell us anything much this morning maybe he'll tell you more. Stand by Lauriston, mister! we'll pull him through." "You seem very well disposed towards him," remarked Purdie. "He's evidently taken your fancy."
'Blow me, says I to Old Bags, 'but I 'll do his reverence! 'Blow me, says Old Bags, 'but you sha' n't, you'll have us scragged if you touches the Church. 'My grandmother! says I. Bags tells the pals, all in a fuss about it, what care I? I puts on a decent dress, and goes to the doctor as a decayed soldier wot supplies the shops in the turning line.
"Why, it means that he is to be scragged to-day or to-morrow." "Scragged?" asked Jacques Collin, whose air of innocence and ignorance filled his three pals with admiration. "In their slang," said the governor, "that means that he will suffer the penalty of death. If the clerk is reading the appeal, the executioner will no doubt have orders for the execution.
"Not at all, dear Evie. All point of view, I assure you. Mr. Sedgwick has told you that I take a sporting chance of being scragged. I haven't the slightest ill feeling, but I want what I want. Have you decided, sir?" He was scarcely two yards from me, but neither his keen gaze nor the point of the automatic revolver wandered for a fraction of a second from me.
"I never committed murder, sir," said he in an improved tone. "It wasn't allowed on board of the Avenger, sir. It's a hard case that a fellow should be made a pirate by force, and then be scragged for it, though he's done none o' the bloody work." "This may be true," rejoined the lieutenant, "but as I have said, you will find it difficult to convince your judges of it.
The one restraint was as irksome as the other, and Harry Simms abandoned the needle, as he had scorned the grammar, to go upon the pad. Though his early companions were scragged at Tyburn, the light-fingered rascal was indifferent to their fate, and squandering such booty as fell to his share, he bravely 'turned out' for more.
Before he died he told me how you had saved him from being scragged, and said that he wanted to make you his heir." "Poor fellow," said Frank with a sad smile, "it was a kind expression of gratitude that I did not expect of him, considering his reputation."
'Then his right to be alive is null and void, and if he's caught so much as scraping dirt to bury a pup he's dealt with according to law. If in his month's work he doesn't earn enough to buy grease for his windlass, he must take out his miner's right or run the chance of being scragged. 'That seems strangely out of place here. And the men stand it? 'And heaps more.
Beside the wall grew a witch-hazel; in my vague grasp at outside objects I saw it, full of wrinkled and weird bloom, as if the golden fleece had strayed thereby, and caught upon the ungainly twigs of the scragged bush, and left glittering curled threads in flecked bunches scattered on every branch; the strange spell-sweet odor of the flowers struck me before I saw them, and the whole expression of their growth affected me with helpless admiration, so brave as it was! defying all Autumn to daunt the immortal Spring ever surviving in its soul, here, on October's edge, putting out its freshness and perfume, as if seasons were an accident, and circumstance a chimera, as if will, good-will, will to be of strength and cheer, were potent enough to laugh at Nature, and trust the God-given consciousness within, whatever adverse fate ruled and triumphed without.
"'Oh, that was the night after they killed Everett, and I went out lookin' for a line of retreat for my men. A man found me. I abolished him privatim scragged him. So I went out again the next night and did. The Khye-Kheens are shocked at the Malo'ts perpetratin' these two dastardly outrages after they'd sworn to sink all bleed feuds.
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