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Poussin, observing against the dark panelling of the wall a magnificent portrait of a woman, exclaimed aloud, "What a magnificent Giorgione!" "No," remarked the old man, "that is only one of my early daubs." "Zounds!" cried Poussin naively; "are you the king of painters?" The old man smiled, as if long accustomed to such homage.
Zounds, what an Orangeman he would make! he's just the cut for it, an' it's a thousand pities he's not one but! what the hell am I sayin? They say he's cross and ill-tempered, but I deny it isn't he patient, except when in a passion? and never in a passion unless when provoked; what the d l more would they have?
"But, father, if you employ violence " "Zounds! do you know what the commissary of police answered me this morning, when I went to renew my charge against your mother's confessor? He said to me that there was no proof, and that they could do nothing." "But now there is proof, father, for at least we know where the young girls are. With that certainty we shall be strong.
Probably this finery had its origin in the policy of her guests, who had seen enough of life to know that age, which tames all other passions, never tames the passion of dress in a woman's mind. No sooner did the four revellers set their eyes upon me than they all rose. "Zounds, Bess!" cried the tallest of them, "what cull's this? Is this a bowsing ken for every cove to shove his trunk in?"
Zounds, man! you have many an ill deed to atone for, I'll warrant. Why not add one good one to your account, by risking your life for the reformed faith? 'Not I, the highwayman answered, reining up his horse. 'My own skin is nothing, but why should I risk my mare in such a fool's quarrel? Should she come to harm in the ruffle, where could I get such another?
And the Gascon continued compassionately, "It is very easy to understand, this poor woman has not an idea of what constitutes a gentleman; when one has all one's life fed on lard and beans, one cannot conceive of anything as fine, as delicate as a pheasant or an ortolan. Zounds! I see it has been reserved to me to enlighten Blue Beard on a variety of things, and to discover to her a new world.
Clopin interrupted him: "I believe that you are trying to blarney us with your jargon. Zounds! let yourself be hung, and don't kick up such a row over it!" "Pardon me, monseigneur, the King of Thunes," replied Gringoire, disputing the ground foot by foot. "It is worth trouble One moment! Listen to me You are not going to condemn me without having heard me"
Here was a danger to be encountered, so with the rapid decision, acquired in the school of war, he laid his hand heavily on his countryman's, saying in a low, impressive tone: "You are my friend, Hans Eitelfritz, and have no wish to injure me." "Zounds, no! What's up?" "Well then, keep to yourself where and how we first met each other. Don't interrupt me.
'Zounds, Madam, says he, 'you offer nothing. It cost the gentleman who took it forty pounds for his coach, equipage, and other expenses to Windsor. His impudence increased with success, and in the geniality of his cups he was wont to boast his amazing rogueries: 'hinting not without vanity at the poor Understandings of the Greatest Part of Mankind, and his own Superior Cunning.
"No fair, Snow; that doesn't make sense." "Does." "Your turn, Roy." "No fair. Nothing begins with 'Z." LILLY: "Does so. Z! Z zounds zippy zingorella zoe! Zoe!" By similar strain of alliterative classification, Mrs. Schum's boarding house might have been indexed as Middle West, middle class, medium price, and meager of meal. Poor, callous-footed Mrs.
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