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So I asked her "why," and for answer she flung me a back-hander across the face. Birkin laughed quickly, as if it pleased him. Gerald looked at him, wondering, and began to laugh as well, saying: 'I didn't laugh at the time, I assure you. I was never so taken aback in my life. 'And weren't you furious? 'Furious? I should think I was. I'd have murdered her for two pins.
The dry cackle of the apprentice as he looked after Guida roused a mockery of indignation in the Master. "Sacre matin, a back-hander on the jaw'd do you good, slubberdegullion you! Ah, get go scrub the coffin blacking from your jowl!" he rasped out with furious contempt. The apprentice seemed not to hear, but kept on looking after Guida, a pitiless leer on his face.
It was clearly a back-hander over an ingenious attempt which I had made a day or two before to prove how much better it would be for me to get off three days before Collections and so obtain another whole week in the bosom of my family at Cannes! No doubt Jowett's system of controlling the recalcitrant portions of the College through sarcasm was well meant and occasionally fairly successful.
What did I mean by asking questions? He had a fine flow of language, and his adjectives were very vigorous. He ended a string of abuse by a vicious back-hander which I failed to entirely avoid. The next few minutes were delicious. It was a straight left against a slogging ruffian. I emerged as you see me. Mr. Woodley went home in a cart.
Huddlestone, filled for the moment with a strength greater than his own, struck Northmour and myself a back-hander in the chest; and while we were thus for the moment incapacitated from action, lifting his arms above his head like one about to dive, he ran straight forward out of the pavilion. "Here am!" he cried "Huddlestone! Kill me, and spare the others!"
The dry cackle of the apprentice as he looked after Guida roused a mockery of indignation in the Master. "Sacre matin, a back-hander on the jaw'd do you good, slubberdegullion you! Ah, get go scrub the coffin blacking from your jowl!" he rasped out with furious contempt. The apprentice seemed not to hear, but kept on looking after Guida, a pitiless leer on his face.
Peggotty's back-hander, and little Em'ly got up and kissed Mr. Peggotty. 'And how's your friend, sir? said Mr. Peggotty to me. 'Steerforth? said I. 'That's the name! cried Mr. Peggotty, turning to Ham. 'I knowed it was something in our way. 'You said it was Rudderford, observed Ham, laughing. 'Well! retorted Mr. Peggotty. 'And ye steer with a rudder, don't ye? It ain't fur off.
At the twentieth solemn iteration of Ripton's capital shortcoming, Ripton delivered a smart back-hander on Richard's mouth, and squared precipitately; perhaps sorry when the deed was done, for he was a kind-hearted lad, and as Richard simply bowed in acknowledgment of the blow he thought he had gone too far. He did not know the young gentleman he was dealing with. Richard was extremely cool.
"He said he'd see me d d first. But I meant it. I'd do it to-morrow if she asked me prettily." "Have you any notion how she'll be left after all this?" "Yes. There's the house, and her mother's money. Freddy couldn't get at that. When it's all settled up she can't be so badly off, I fancy. Still it's a beastly back-hander in the face, poor girl. By Jove, she does stand up to it in form, too.
Ranulph's patience was exhausted. "Bachouar," he exclaimed roughly, "you make elephants out of fleas! You've got no more news than a conch-shell has music. A minute and you'll have a back-hander that'll put you to sleep, Maitre Dormy." If he had been asked his news politely Dormy would have been still more cunningly reticent.
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