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"It's one of the beastliest things I ever heard. They neither of them come particularly well out of the business, but Rand-Brown comes worse out of it even than Ruthven. My word, that man wants killing." "That'll keep," said Clowes, nodding. "What's the yarn?" "Do you remember about a year ago a chap named Patterson getting sacked?" Clowes nodded again. He remembered the case well.
At another time Robert might have consoled him with the assurance that even the beastliest sort of father might hesitate to risk his neck on such slight provocation, but he himself was overwrought with three days of peril, of desperate subterfuge and feverish alternations between joy and anguish.
There was a levity, nevertheless, in Margutte, which restored his spirits on the slightest glimpse of good fortune; and if he realised a hearty meal, he became the happiest, beastliest, and most confident of giants. The companions, in the course of their journey, delivered a damsel from the clutches of three other giants.
It may with a certain charity to Benham be rendered: "The beastliest inn! The beastliest! The beastliest, most awful lunch! The vilest horse! Most dangerous! Abominable trick! Understand?" The landlord made deprecatory gestures. "YOU understand all right," said Benham. "Da me il argento per il carozzo. * "Give me back the money for the carriage.
Then they found gold, and that brought up a dozen ways of making money, all of 'em better than digging. Why, ma'am, I made ten thousand pounds by selling the beastliest lemonade you ever tasted for gold-dust at the mines. That was a good swop, wasn't it? So now I'm come home to see if I can stand the Old Country and its ways; and I'm going to see the old folk.
"I have been but I've been in the slums since; in horrible places that the least of those flowers would have lighted up like a lamp." Westy's guarded glance imprudently softened. "It's the beastliest kind of a shame, your ever having had to do such work " "Oh, had to?" she flashed back at him disconcertingly. "It was my choice, you know: there was a time when I couldn't live without it.
Carlyle, who knows how to be manly in these matters, and affects none of the hypocritical airs of our conventional criticism, yet has not more energetically than truly pronounced this "the beastliest of all past, present, or future dull novels."
But all I say is, that if I don't emigrate to America in that case, in the beastliest old cockle-shell as goes out of port, I'm 'You don't mean what you say, I'm sure, said Martin. 'Yes I do, cried Mark. 'I tell you I know better, rejoined Martin. 'Very good, sir, said Mark, with the same air of perfect satisfaction. 'Let it stand that way at present, sir, and wait and see how it turns out.
Such a temper of mind may, at the first touch of resistance, transform your stolid, laudable, laughable Englishman into the beastliest of tyrants. It may drive him into a delirium of cruelty and injustice. It may sweep away, in one ruin of war, wealth, culture, and the whole fabric of civilisation. It may darken counsel, and corrupt thought.
'I think it's just the horridest, beastliest thing I ever saw, she answered, and turned away. 'More than you will be of that way of thinking, young woman. Dick, there's a sort of murderous, viperine suggestion in the poise of the head that I don't understand, said Torpenhow. That's trick-work, said Dick, chuckling with delight at being completely understood.
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