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"Of Ronald Barrymaine," said Barnabas. "Oh!" murmured the Captain, and vanished again. But now Barnabas followed him. "Have you any objection to my going with you?" he inquired. "Not in the least," answered the Captain, making hideous faces at himself in the mirror as he shaved, "oh, no delighted, 'pon my soul, b'gad only " "Well?" "I don't seek his mercy," said Barnabas.
Then all at once he laughed and down came his great hands upon my shoulders. "B'gad, Perry, I love ye for 'em, lad; dooce take me if I don't!" he exclaimed. "Those breeches now where did you find 'em?" "Sir, they were bestowed by one Galloping Jerry, a highwayman."
"But being the ah truly feminine creature she is, your remarkable aunt, with more or less reason, has leapt to the conclusion that we are the cause of what she terms your 'desertion', and is a little incensed against us " "Incensed, d'ye call it, Jervas?" exclaimed uncle George. "A little incensed is it oh, b'gad!" "And declines to see or hold communications with us "
Slingsby is plying his whip, Carnaby is rowelling savagely, yet, neck and neck, the sorrel and the gray race for the jump, with Barnabas and the Marquis behind. "Give way, Slingsby!" shouts Sir Mortimer. "Be damned if I do!" roars the Captain, and in go his spurs. "Pull over, Slingsby!" shouts Sir Mortimer. "No, b'gad! Pull over yourself," roars the Captain.
"Slingsby!" cried his Lordship, "look to that black demon of yours!" "He is no concern of mine, Devenham," replied the Captain airily, "sold him, b'gad!" "And I bought him," added Barnabas. "You did?" the Viscount exclaimed, "in heaven's name, what for?" "To ride " "Eh? my dear fellow!" "I should like to try him for the race on the fifteenth, if it could be managed, Dick."
Faint and far away a church clock struck the hour. "What time was that?" I enquired. "Eleven o'clock, Perry." "Six weary hours to wait!" I groaned. "B'gad, yes only six hours!" "Thank God!" quoth I fervently, and so we went on again, arm in arm. "You mean to kill that damned fellow, Peregrine?" "If they place us near enough." "You are good for twelve paces, I suppose?" "I don't know."
What damnable things dreams are, b'gad!" "My dear Sling," said the Viscount, "it is exactly a quarter past three." "Oh, is it, b'gad! Well?" "And at four o'clock I believe you have an appointment with Gaunt." "Gaunt!" repeated the Captain, starting, and Barnabas saw all the light and animation die out of his face, "Gaunt, yes, I b'gad! I 'd forgotten, Devenham."
"That, sir, remains to be seen," said Barnabas, shortly. "Why, what do you mean to do with the brute?" "Ride him." "Do you, b'gad?" "I do." "Lay you ten guineas you don't sit him ten minutes." "Done!" said Barnabas, buttoning up his coat.
I should have been rotting in the Fleet, or the Marshalsea, years ago if it hadn't been for my uncle's gout, b'gad!" "His gout?" "Precisely! Every twinge he has up goes my credit. I'm his only heir, y'know, and he's seventy-one. At present he's as sound as a bell, actually rode to hounds last week, b'gad! Consequently my credit's nowhere.
If you think you can back him he's yours for what you like. Come, what's the word?" "Emphatically no, my dear, good Sling," laughed the young Corinthian, shaking his curly head. "I don't mean to risk this most precious neck of mine until the fifteenth, dear fellow, dooce take me if I do!" "Why then, b'gad! I'll sell him to any one fool enough to bid.
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