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Henry Irving, when he played Petruchio, had been toiling in the provinces for eleven solid years, and not until Rawdon Scudamore in "Hunted Down" had he had any success. Even that was forgotten in his failure as Petruchio. What a trouncing he received from the critics who have since heaped praise on many worse men!
This time she heard, and ran through the sitting-room, still grasping the spoon, to invite the new settler to enter. He tramped in with a jocund greeting, sat down on the kitchen floor in a path of sunlight, and leaned against the wall, smoking. "Go right on go right on," he urged. "Like to see you trouncing the cream. And what I've got to say won't sour it."
"I'll tell the manager tomorrow, that if he doesn't keep that boy away from me, I'll take the matter into my own hands and give that kid a trouncing that will last him till we get to New Orleans." The darkness of the night, just before the dawn, hung over the broad river. Doors and windows of the pilot house were thrown open so that the wheelman might get a clear view on all sides.
You seem to be itching after a thorough trouncing with the forks of the devils! Devils with toads' heads, rams' horns, serpents for their tails, elephants' trunks for arms, and cloven hoofs aye archcloven!" "Did you see them?" queried the Frank with a savage and yet frightened mien. "Did you, bishop? Did you see those demons?" "Whether I saw them!
Grant that it is all old fashioned; that to you it seems silly for the old man to go alone and pray after trouncing the boy, or that you fear the "boy's will was broken" by this episode, yet review the facts in their entirety, and see if there is not a good in them that you are wont to overlook.
You were popular before, but with considerable reservations. The hierarchy liked you, but were not sure that they ought to approve a Vestal who had perpetrated such exploits as yours, particularly your trouncing poor old Faltonius. The nobility admired you, but shook their heads over your stock-farming.
Why, it was but three days ago that Friar Anselmo caught him, soon after daybreak, fishing in the Convent pool with two of the village lads. The friar gave them a sound trouncing, and would have given one to your son, too, had it not been for the respect that we all feel for you. It is high time, Mr. Ormskirk, that he was broken of his wild ways and received an education suited to his station."
Pincher tossed her tousled mane affirmatively. They kept about forty yards behind the team, which went at a steady rate. "I say, Pincher, the old beast must be laying it onto them horses, to make 'em go like that." This time Pincher merely laid an ear back in token of sympathy. "We'll give him a worse trouncing than that, though. Eh, Pincher?"
'I think that these good people require a trouncing, said Captain Weisspriess. 'Lieutenant Pierson is not of your opinion, Countess Anna remarked.
With eyes wide open with horror and lips trembling, she asked, "Did they kill them, uncle?" "No, child, they only gave them a good trouncing in their own pond." He choked here, out of pity for her, keeping back the torrent of his anger. Even at this early date it was bruited that Joseph Smith exercised some unseemly force of will by which he distorted the reason of his converts.
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