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"I find it perfectly comfortable," replied William Condor. "You take it too hard. You ought to manage it with less friction. The point is, to avoid friction. If you undertake to deal with men, you ought to understand just what they are." Mr. Condor smoked serenely, and General Belch looked at his slim, clean figure, and his calm face, with curious admiration.
Only a pharaoh may act thus, or a traitor, or a frivolous stripling, who with the same heedlessness will do hasty deeds or belch forth words of blasphemy." The sun went down, and soon after a starry night appeared.
Let me, in conclusion, propose three cheers for our representative in the next Congress, the Honorable Abel Newt. And now " he whispered to his friends as the shouts began, "now lug him in again." The crowd cheered, the Honorable Mr. Newt was lugged in, the windows were closed, and General Belch and his friends withdrew.
A cannon shall be seen to belch its smoke from among the trees, against some distant canoes on the lake; the traffickers shall pause, and seem to hearken, at intervals, as if they heard the rattle of musketry or the shout of Indians; a scouting-party shall be driven in, with two or three faint and bloody men among them.
"In truth, senor," said Sancho, "one of the counsels and cautions I mean to bear in mind shall be this, not to belch, for I'm constantly doing it." "Eruct, Sancho, not belch," said Don Quixote. "Eruct, I shall say henceforth, and I swear not to forget it," said Sancho.
She was gone, and Arthur Merlin sank into the chair she had just left. "Oh Heavens!" said he, "did she understand or not?" General Belch's office was in the lower part of Nassau Street. At the outer door there was a modest slip of a tin sign, "Arcularius Belch, Attorney and Counselor." The room itself was dingy and forlorn.
'Marry, hang her, brock! said the Counsellor, borrowing an exclamation from Sir Toby Belch; 'just the month in which Ellangowan's distresses became generally public. But let us hear what she has done. Mr. Protocol accordingly, having required silence, began to read the settlement aloud in a slow, steady, business-like tone.
Speaker I beg pardon, General Belch, that General Jackson, gentlemen and ladies, that is to say, the relatives here present I mean yes is one of the very greatest I venture to say, and thrust it in the teeth and down the throat of calumny the greatest human being that now lives, or ever did live, or ever can live. Mr. Ele sat down amidst a fury of applause.
Then the General continued: "We're going to send Newt to look after Ele, and I rather think we shall have to send somebody to look after Newt. However, we'll see. Let's leave this hog to snore by himself." They rose as he spoke. "What were the words of your resolution, Belch?" asked William Condor, with his eyes twinkling. "I don't quite remember.
"D d old hunks!" he shouted. But nobody heard. Mrs. Dagon and May Newt had closed the door, and Abel was left alone. "It's no use," he said, moodily and aloud, but still thickly. "I can't help it. I shall have to do just as Belch wishes. But he must help me. If he expects me to serve him, he must serve me.
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