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Updated: June 29, 2025
'They've done everything they could, short of murder, said The Infant. 'You know what this'll mean for the regiment. It isn't as if we were dealing with Sahibs nowadays. 'Quite so. Stalky turned on me. 'Go and release the bagman, he said. ''Tisn't my garage, I pleaded. 'I'm company. Besides, he'll probably slay me. He's been in the sack for hours.
The bagman arrived in due course, with a rum-looking roan horse, called the "Doctor"; a very good horse, too, but not quite so good as the bagman gave out that he was.
And yet that clerk had discovered for himself an unique method of seeing Life at its best, the flowing, hurrying, travelling, marketing Life of the Highway; the life of bagman and cart, of tinker, and pig-dealer, and all cheery creatures that drink and chaffer together in the sun.
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. But there is another theory of the personal motive in these fine sayings and doings, which I believe to be true and wholesome.
The gray wall and the blinding road rushed by me like a river I scarcely knew what happened I couldn't think of anything but the ticking of the clock that I was somehow trying to count, till there came the bang of a pistol over my head. It was the Cashmere gate, and I had thirteen seconds in hand. There was never anything more heard of the bagman.
We succeeded somehow in the end, I don't quite know how we managed it, as the bagman was very warlike too; but, anyhow, when I was going to bed that night I saw them both in the billiard room, very tight, leaning up against opposite ends of the billiard table, and making shoves at the balls with the wrong ends of their cues, fortunately.
The remarks about his father which had fallen from the bagman, stuck to him for a time like a burr: it isn't pleasant to hear your father described as a kind of charlatan and trickster, and Stafford would have liked to have collared the man and knocked an apology out of him; but there are certain disadvantages attached to the position of gentlemen, and one of them is that you have to pretend to be deaf to speeches that were not intended for your ears; so Stafford could not bash the bagman for having spoken disrespectfully of the great Sir Stephen Orme.
He reminded me at once of a royal duke, or an actor turned a little elderly, and of a blatant bagman who should have been the illegitimate son of a gentleman. A moment after he was gliding noiselessly on the road to London. I breathed again.
However, I am no critic, but a plain man who tells a plain tale, and I believe persons of soul admire the book very much. Any way, it does not say who the Stranger was an allegorical kind of bagman I fancy; but I am not done with him yet. It was a terrific yet beautiful spectacle, and one which I can never forget.
He pursed up his lips, and again struck an attitude. "Well, I will be brief, to shorten our common discomfort," said the Baroness, looking at Crevel. Crevel made an ironical bow, in which a man who knew the race would have recognized the graces of a bagman. "Our son married your daughter " "And if it were to do again " said Crevel.
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