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Tip him the degen, Fib, fake him through and through; if he pikes, we shall all be scragged." Hitherto, in the confusion I had not been able to recall Job's instructions in opening the latch; at last I remembered, and pressed, the screw the latch rose I opened the door; but not wide enough to scape through the aperture. The ruffians saw my escape at hand.
Why, blast the Pope, hasn't she saved me from bein' scragged many a time didn't she save me t'night?" "Doesn't she pray rather that you may turn honest?" "Honest!" quoth he, spitting. "Let them be honest as can! An' look 'ee, my lad, I'll tell ye what you leave my dead mother alone or 't will be the worse for ye."
'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.
"Well, then," replied Bibi-Lupin, "you may be quite sure of one thing you will never see twenty." "Why?" "Because you will be scragged within three days," replied the police agent. The murderer, who had believed, even after sentence was passed, that a minor would never be executed, collapsed like an omelette soufflee.
'Here's a jolly life! What's the odds where it comes from? Here, catch hold; there's plenty more where they were took from. You won't, won't you? Oh, you precious flat! 'It's naughty, ain't it, Oliver? inquired Charley Bates. 'He'll come to be scragged, won't he? 'I don't know what that means, replied Oliver. 'Something in this way, old feller, said Charly.
Multenius's you peeked and peered through the shop window and saw him alone, or, perhaps, saw the place empty. You went in you grabbed a couple o' rings he interrupted you you scragged him! That's their line and Zillah can't swear that those rings which you claim to be yours aren't her grandfather's, and up to now you can't prove that they're yours and were once your mother's!
They released him and he stood up and straightened his clothes and searched his mind for something of a devastating character to say. "Funny ass!" he said at last, and then they scragged him again for being cheeky.
Henry objected. "I used to think it'd be rather nice to be a parson ... standing in the pulpit in a surplice and talking like that to people!" Gilbert got up from the grass where they were sitting. "He'll have to be scragged," he said.
"Ah!" remarked Melky, as they pushed at the door of the eating-house. "And ain't it going to be a nice job to find the man that scragged him? I don't think! But I'm going to take a hand at that game, mister! let alone the police." Mrs. Goldmark was out. She had heard the news, said the waitress who was left in charge, and had gone round to do what she could for Miss Zillah.
There haven't been so many ladies in the Lodge since the days of Claude Du Val, the gentleman highwayman; and they all declare it'll break their hearts if he's scragged." "Bah!" ejaculated Marvel, gruffly. "You think our sex has no feeling, I suppose, Sir," cried Mrs. Spurling, indignantly; "but I can tell you we have.
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