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He began digging away with his knife at some yellow spots in the ivory. They were bits of inlaid gold. "What's the idea?" asked Dave in surprise. "Are all prisons up here made of ivory inlaid with gold?" "Y' can't tell, lad. 'E's a queer one, the bloomin' 'eathen, and if h'I be 'anged," sputtered Jarvis, "what's one pole more or less, when you've gold calling to come and take it. What "
Hobbs, who announced in a hoarse, agitated whisper that he's "be 'anged if he'd let any man make a fool of him twice over." The way was made easy by the intervention of the alert young woman in grey. She caught sight of the restricted adventurers or one of them, to be quite accurate and, after speeding a swift smile of astonishment, turned quickly to Prince Bobby.
His stall was in the last row, against the first row of the pit, and the girls who had applauded Miss Terry and Sir Charles Wyndham were still identifying the fashionable people. "I tell you it is 'im," said the more assertive of the two. "I sawr 'is picture in the Daily Reflexion the time that feller ... wot's 'is name ... the one that 'anged all 'is wives in the coal-cellar ... you know!..."
"Be 'anged, I can't make a speech, after all," he grumbled; and wheeling suddenly on Heywood, with a peevish air of having been defrauded: "Aboard ship I could sit and think up no end o' flowery talk, and now it's all gone!" He stared at his plate miserably. It was Miss Drake who came to his rescue. "Tell us the secret," she begged. "How do you manage all these nice things?"
So be 'anged, here goes, right and proper. To Miss Drake, for her hospital and kiddies, two thousand rupees." In the laughter and friendly uproar, the girl sat dazed. "What shall I say?" she whispered, wavering between amusement and distress. "I can't accept it " "Nonsense!" grumbled Heywood, with an angry glance. "Don't spoil the happiest evening of an old man's life."
I've not finished her. My intention was, ye know, to fling the bloomin' cigar!" Heywood, laughing, rescued the volume on a long bamboo. "Just came out on the look-see, captain," he called up. "Can't board you. Plague ashore." "Plague be 'anged!" scoffed the little captain. "That hole's no worse with plague than't is without. Got two cases on board, myself coolies.
He has described Gleyre's studio in Trilby. The happy life there lasted a year: Whistler and Poynter, as is well known, were his fellow-students. "Why, it's enough to make a man turn Radical, 'anged if it ain't, to think of sich services as mine bein' rewarded with no 'igher title than what's bestowed on a heminent Sawbones, or a Hingerneer, or a Littery Man, or even a successful Hartist!" Mrs.
The flutter of birds, among the orange trees, gradually ceased; the sun came slanting over the eastern wall; the gray floor of the compound turned white and blurred through the dancing heat. A torrid westerly breeze came fitfully, rose, died away, rose again, and made Captain Kneebone curse. "A fair wind lost," he muttered. "Next we'll lose the ebb, too, be 'anged."
He says he's going to be 'anged some day. He's just as sure of it as he's sure he's alive." "Just a morbid notion." "Well, it's his antecedents, as the feller would say. In the family, so to speak. His father was 'anged for murder when Dick was eleven years old. I daresay it's got on 'is mind, poor lad." "His father was hanged?" cried David, in a lowered tone. A swift shudder swept over him.
Attwater," replied Huish, stepping briskly on the ladder. "I don't tell it to you, because you played the trucklin' sneak. Here's a letter for him: tyke it, and give it, and be 'anged to you!" "Davis, is this all right?" said Herrick. Davis raised his chin, glanced swiftly at Herrick and away again, and held his peace.
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