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"Little Julius Deschars came home with chilblains," she says. "But Charles has chilblains here." "Never," she replies, proudly. In a quarter of an hour, the main question is blocked by a side discussion on this point: "Has Charles had chilblains or not?" You bandy contradictory allegations; you no longer believe each other; you must appeal to a third party. Axiom.
"That goes without saying, or He would not be God." "But that is what you have said in your letters." There was silence in the room. The misery of his loneliness took hold of Toyner till it almost felt like despair. Who was he, unlearned, very sinful, even now shaken with the palsy of recent excess who was he to bandy words with a holy man?
And yet this could hardly be, for he could easily have set fire to it, and then the question flashed upon my mind suddenly, why had he pressed home the attack on this particular room, when all the rest of the house lay open to him? Did not that point to the probability that the money he had spoken of was actually here, in this room? 'Twas vain to bandy more words with the fellow.
The scene in which Sampson Brass draws up the description of Quilp, supposing him to be dead, reaches a point of fiendish fun. "We will not say very bandy, Mrs. Jiniwin," he says of his friend's legs, "we will confine ourselves to bandy. He is gone, my friends, where his legs would never be called in question." They go on to the discussion of his nose, and Mrs.
"It's a girl at the station, you fool," he said. "The youngster said " "Silence!" Slaughter shouted, as he advanced a step into the hut and faced the black-browed man, with the gleam in his eyes which had held the men of Birralong back, and his fists clenched. "You bandy her name, and " "Well, what then?" Barber interrupted.
"Little Julius Deschars came home with chilblains," she says. "But Charles has chilblains here." "Never," she replies, proudly. In a quarter of an hour, the main question is blocked by a side discussion on this point: "Has Charles had chilblains or not?" You bandy contradictory allegations; you no longer believe each other; you must appeal to a third party. Axiom.
Fare we forth for the land of Irak and wander over the world, so haply we may win dower and marriage portion, and we may seek and enjoy our cousins' kisses and embraces when we come back." Hearing this, Sabbah waxed angry; his arrogance and fury redoubled and he said, "Woe to thee! Dost thou bandy words with me, O vilest of dogs that be? Turn thee thy back, or I will come down on thee with clack!"
T.P. Wick, of Chicago," I demanded. "Is his room number Sixty-two?" That is the kind of mind which you usually find attached to the New York end of a trans-American telephone. But one does not bandy words across a thousand miles of country with a hotel clerk, so I merely responded: "Very probably." There was a pause, and then the still small voice came again. "Mr. Wick is in bed at present.
It was just as though he was asleep, and when I shook him he came to all at once and began to laugh. 'What's the matter, Van? says I. 'What are you crawling on the floor that way for? 'I'm damned if I know, says he, rubbing his eyes. 'I guess I must have been out of my head. Too much whisky! Then he says: 'Put me to bed, will you, Bandy?
Colonel Mannering seems to have formed a determination that nothing shall be considered as ridiculous so long as it appertains to or is connected with him. I remember in India he had picked up somewhere a little mongrel cur, with bandy legs, a long back, and huge flapping ears.
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