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"It's a baddish gale that's got hold of the old Hurst Castle, and that's a fact," the doctor said, when they had finished with me, in answer to the questioning look that he saw in my eyes.
I only came to ask about him...." "He's in a baddish way now, but still." "Does the doctor think he will get better?" "Yes, as far as I know. I've not heard otherwise." "Well good-night." Oh to be young and rich and handsome, and famous and learned in sciences!... There she goes.... Before leaving the churchyard I found a serviceable thumbnail and put it in my pocket.
A slight moral distinction remains, not to be so easily got over. She was the best girl in the place, and he a baddish boy. He was, however, as sharp in his way as she was intelligent in hers. This youthful mariner allowed his lordship to pass him, and take twenty steps, but watched him all the time, and compared him with a description furnished him by his sister.
Margaret O'Rourke, with the baddish cat following closely at her heels, entered the Bilkins mansion, reached her chamber in the attic without being intercepted, and there laid aside her finery. The breakfast was late that morning. As Mrs. O'Rourke set the coffee-urn in front of Mrs. Bilkins and flanked Mr. Bilkins with the broiled mackerel and buttered toast, Mrs. O'Rourke's conscience smote her.
The baddish boy chuckled, and addressed himself to the nice brown steaks with their rich gravy. On such occasions a solo on the knife and fork seemed better than a trio to the gracious Flucker. Christie moved about the room, doing little household matters; Gatty's eye followed her.
He then followed, and brought him to, as he called it. "I daur say it's you I'm to convoy to yon auld faggitt!" said this baddish boy. On they went, Flucker rolling and pitching and yawing to keep up with the lordly galley, for a fisherman's natural waddle is two miles an hour. At the very entrance of Newhaven, the new pilot suddenly sung out, "Starboard!"
"Faix, Barney," said the Brown Hall whip, "I believe we stand a baddish chance; they do be saying the Counsellor's mighty handy with the powdher; would you plaze to try a blast this cowld morning?" and he handed him his pipe. "And thank ye kindly too, Dan; it's a mighty cowld place. Why thin it's thrue for you, the masther is handy with the powdher; more power to his elbow this morning."
The ague fit was upon him then, and he shook the bed as he sat down upon it. His face wore that blue, pallid appearance, which you may have seen in aguish patients. "You don't seem much better, Grind." "Thank ye, sir, I be baddish just now again, but I ain't worse on the whole," was the man's reply.
Jones, the latter of whom had bestowed all these good things upon us. Thus, sir, have our lives been crowned with mercies. My wife got about again, and I do believe, under Providence, it was owing to these comforts; for the rheumatism, sir, without blankets by night, and flannel by day, is but a baddish job, especially to people who have little or no fire.
Christie resumed her book. Then the baddish boy fixed his eye on the fire, and said softly and thoughtfully to the fire, "Hech, what a heap o' troubles yon woman has come through." This stroke of art was not lost. Christie looked up from her book; pretended he had spoken to her, gave a fictitious yawn, and renewed the negotiation with the air of one disposed to kill time.
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