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'Oh, I say! says Byfield, 'this is too much of a good thing! Confound it, I'm a respectable man a public character, by George! I can't afford to get taken up by the police. 'My own case exactly, said I. 'Here, let's bilk them, said he. And we turned back and took our way down hill again.
When you happen to see either Monsieur or Madame Perny, I beg you will give them this melancholic proof of my caducity, and tell them that the last time I went to see the boys, I carried the Michaelmas quarterage in my pocket; and when I was there I totally forgot it; but assure them, that I have not the least intention to bilk them, and will pay them faithfully the two quarters together, at Christmas.
More than ever convinced that gratitude is hopeless to seek in human nature, the gipsies had shaken the dust of Holmhurst from the soles of their not very tidy feet, and had moved off, no one knew whither. These proceedings had, among other persons, interested Alexander Magnus Bilk not a little, and no one mourned the rapid departure of the gipsies more than he.
Tea was a feverish meal for Bilk that evening. He spoke to no one, and ate very little; and as the hand of the clock worked round to a quarter to six he began to feel distinctly that a crisis in his life was approaching. He was glad neither Dell nor Morgan, whose studies probably kept them in their study, were at tea. They were such fellows for worrying him, and just now he wanted to be in peace.
The two boys stole forward on tiptoe, holding one another's arms; then suddenly they broke into a rush straight for the sign-post. There was a loud shriek as the white figure rose up to meet them. "Bilk, you idiot, cut back for your life! here's the doctor! We were only having a lark with you. Do cut your sticks, and slip in quietly, and it'll be all right.
Bag of nails. All in confusion. Balram. Money. Bandog. A civil officer. Barking irons. Pistols. Bene. Good, first-rate. Benjamin. A coat. Bilk. To cheat. Bill of sale. A widow's weeds. Bingo. Liquor. Bingo boy. A drunken man. Bingo mort. A drunken woman. Blue-billy. A strange handkerchief. Blue ruin. Bad gin. Boarding-school. The penitentiary. Bone box. The mouth. Bowsprit in parenthesis.
They called him "Lamp-post" as a pet name, and as regarded his height, his girth, and the lightness of his head, the term conveyed a very fair idea of our hero's chief characteristics. In short, Bilk had very few brains, and such as he had he occupied by no means to the best advantage.
But they'll lie low; they'll sit on the cash till the time comes when it's safe to dispose of it; and they'll bilk the Inland Revenue out of the duties. The remarkable thing is that Beaumaroy seems to want them to do it." "That's to make me sorry; that's to prove me wrong, Mr. Naylor." "It may make you sorry, it makes me sorry, for that matter; but it doesn't prove you wrong. You were right.
"But how am I to know that this is not another trick on your part, and that you won't be clearing out of Paris within a few hours? I should present a sorry picture if my clients were to accept your generous offer, and I had to inform them that you were not on hand to back it up." "Oh, you needn't be afraid about that," he said with a laugh. "I am not going to bilk you.
Would they do an act that would bring disgrace not only upon themselves but their relatives, wives, children, and forever debar them from society for a paltry few dollars that they could bilk a railroad company out of? The idea is preposterous, and an insult to their intelligence.
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