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Must have got into some baddish scrape, or he never would be here at his age." "It does not quite follow," the other replied. "His father may have died or burst up somehow, and seeing nothing before him but a place at a clerk's desk or enlisting he may have taken this alternative; and not a bad choice either.
P.S. I have had a baddish fall, my horse partly rolling over me; but I am getting rapidly well. 9 St. Mark's Crescent, N.W. April 18, 1869. There is nothing I like better than writing a little account of it, and trying to make it clear to the meanest capacity. The "Croll" question is awfully difficult.
In the choice of expressions, words such as hideous were applied to what was the very opposite of hideous, such as "hideously amusing," "hideously handsome." "Snapping" to anything that was liquid, as "snapping good punch." One did not say "PRETTY" but "quite too pretty" or "hugely pretty." On the other hand, one did not say "bad" for anything serious, but with comical moderation "baddish."
"I don't know about ruin," answered Tom; "I know that you and I would have had the sack long ago if it hadn't been for him. And you know it as well as I." "Well, we were in a baddish way before he came, I own; but this new crotchet of his is past a joke." "Let's give it a trial, Harry; come. You know how often he has been right and we wrong."
I thought the whole camp was going to be blown away last night. These are the recruits from Southampton, I suppose?" "Yes, colonel, what there is left of them; they certainly had a baddish twelve hours of it." "Form them in line," the colonel said, "and let me have a look at them. They are all ready and willing to serve her majesty, I hope," he added with a grim smile.
The Donatists pitted again fairly against the orthodox, to cut each other's throats in peace.... no more of Cyril's spying and tale-bearing to Constantinople.... Not such a baddish of fare.... But then-it would take so much trouble! With which words, Orestes went into his third warm bath for that day.
Margaret O'Rourke, with the baddish cat following close 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.
Somewhere inside this jacket was Master Flucker, who had returned in the yacht, leaving his sister on the island. Gatty instantly poured out a flood of questions. The baddish boy reciprocated fluency. He informed him "that his sister had been the star of a goodly company, and that, her own lad having stayed away, she had condescended to make a conquest of the skipper himself.
The baddish boy entered, took up a position and remained apparently passive, hands in pockets. Christie. "Aweel, what est?" Flucker. "Custy." Christie. "What's your will, my manny?" Flucker. "Custy, I was at Inch Keith the day." Christie. "And hae ye really come to Edinbro' to tell me thaat?" "Oh! ye ken the lasses are a hantle wiser than we are will ye hear me?
I simply wanted to be left in peace while the fever took its course, and when my skin was cool again I found that the bout had more or less cured my shoulder. But it was a baddish go, and though I was out of bed in five days, it took me some time to get my legs again.
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