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Turning short round, I saw the man in the beaver hat standing within a yard of us, fingering his long pistol and with the same twisted smile upon his lips. "I've a mind," said he, nodding his head at the Bagman, "I've a great mind to blow your face off." The blunderbuss fell to the roadway, with a clatter. "Thievin', rascally villain was it? Damme! I think I will blow your face off."
Pomposity is vulgar, to ape a higher rank than your own is vulgar, for an ensign of militia to call himself captain is vulgar, or for a bagman to style himself the "representative" of Dobson and Hobson. The honest auctioneer, then, will not call his room his study; but his "private room," or his office, or whatever may be the phrase commonly used among auctioneers.
"Well, twopence ain't to be sneezed at, and if I was you " "Come, we're losing time," said I, cutting him short. "But my mare, what about my mare?" "She'll stand," I answered; "she's tired enough." The Bagman, for such I took him to be, sighed, and, blunderbuss in hand, prepared to alight, but, in the act of doing so, paused: "Was the rascal armed?" he inquired, over his shoulder
In her handling a ship will not put up with a mere pretender, as, for instance, the public will do with Mr. X, the popular statesman, Mr. Y, the popular scientist, or Mr. Z, the popular what shall we say? anything from a teacher of high morality to a bagman who have won their little race. It would have been too difficult.
In the best fabric of duplicity there is some weak point, if you can strike it, which will loosen all. It is at best but a pettifogging, pickthank business to decompose actions into little personal motives, and explain heroism away. The Abstract Bagman will grow like an Admiral at heart, not by ungrateful carping, but in a heat of admiration.
And there was one other whom Dickson recognized with peculiar joy the bagman in the provision line of business whom he had met three days before at Kilchrist. The recognition was mutual. "Mr. McCunn!" the bagman exclaimed. "My, but that was running it fine! I hope you've had a pleasant holiday, sir?" "Very pleasant. I've been spending two nights with friends down hereaways.
"Yes, I have seen the book." "I have the 'Children of the Nobility, too, bound in crimson silk; it is a very fascinating collection. My friend, Mrs. Bagman, tells me they are excellent likenesses, particularly the children of his Royal Highness, the Lord-Mayor." Absurd as such a mistake in heraldry may seem, one might vouch for having heard others quite as extraordinary.
Gjert would have delivered himself of still another curious incident if he had not been brought up by the laughter of his parents. The "bagman" too, was laughing, because he saw the others doing so, and received a crushing look accordingly from Gjert, who drew in his horns at once. "Perhaps you don't think it's true?" "Do you know what it is to spin a yarn, my boy?
And who " She paused and stared at the Inspector. "Good gracious!" she cried, "why, it's Aubrey Hamilton!" When the regiment was at Delhi, a T.G. was sent to us from the 105th Lancers, a bagman, as they call that sort of globe-trotting fellow that knocks about from one place to another, and takes all the fun he can out of it at other people's expense.
He had abandoned the Missionary Child and was reading a little dun-coloured book, and marking passages with a pencil. His face was absorbed, and it was a new face, not the vacant, good-humoured look of the garrulous bagman, but something shrewd, purposeful, and formidable. I remained hunched up as if still sleeping, and tried to see what the book was.
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