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Forthwith Billy Button crossed the street with his long, stately stride, and taking the leader's bridle, fell to soothing the horses with soft words, and to patting them with gentle, knowing hands. "B'gad!" exclaimed the Captain, staring, "that fellow has been used to horses once upon a time. Poor devil!"
Their moccasined feet were turned back under the horses' bellies, the sinewy legs clamping the horse from thigh to ankle as the wild riders came on, with no bridle governing their steeds other than the jaw rope's single strand. "Good cavalry, b'gad!" said Battersleigh calmly, as he watched them in their perfect horsemanship. "See 'em come!"
"Well, upon my soul, Peregrine," exclaimed my uncle, removing his hat to ruffle his brown curls, "a precious pickle you look, b'gad! Where in the world what under heaven your breeches, Perry that unspeakable if only Julia could see you now. Oh, the dooce!" Such were his more or less coherent expressions as his astonished gaze took in the various items of my appearance.
For a long moment after the final liquid note had died away was utter stillness, an awed silence; then some one ventured to clap, others joined in, and upon this sound came shouts, cries, cheer on cheer a frantic ovation. "By Gad, Perry," exclaimed my uncle George, blinking moist lashes. "She she can sing, ye know! What I mean is she can sing, b'gad! What d' you say, Jervas?"
And, when you come to think of it it's all cursed humorous, isn't it?" and here the Captain contrived to laugh, though it rang very hollow, to be sure. "You owe a great deal then?" said Barnabas. "Owe?" said the Captain, turning to look at him, "I'm in up to my neck, and getting deeper. Owe! B'gad, Beverley I believe you!"
"Then I shall be devilish sorry to have to beat you, Sling, my boy!" drawled the Marquis, "yes, doocid sorry, still " "Eh what? Beat the 'Rascal, Jerny? Not on your weedy 'Clinker, b'gad " "Oh, but dooce take me, Sling, you'd never say the 'Rascal' was the better horse? Why, in the first place, there's too much daylight under him for your weight besides "
In short, he is suffering of a surfeit of love, determined tenderness and pertinacious care in a word, Julia, he is over-Juliaized! B'gad, and there ye have it, sweet soul d'ye see I am not your sweet soul. And as for poor dear Peregrine
Looks like a doctor's specimen, b'gad. You haven't let anybody I mean, you haven't been buying any prehistoric bones, have you, Mr. Bawdrey?" "Oh, that?" laughed the old man, turning round and seeing to what he was alluding. "Oh, that's a curiosity of quite a different sort, Mr. Rickaby. You are right in saying it looks like a doctor's specimen. It is or, rather, it was. Mrs.
"You've done it you win; eleven and a half minutes, b'gad!" roared the Captain again "don't you hear, sir? come off, before he breaks your neck!"
But to-night ah, to-night kind fortune sent me you. And you were drunk again!" "I'm sober enough now, b'gad!" "Drunkenness, Anthony, as you know, is the refuge for cowards and weaklings, and all unworthy such a man as Anthony Vere-Manville " "Egad, will you preach at me, Perry?"
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