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Updated: June 10, 2025
And when the party was over Queen Bess stood at the door and we passed out, shaking hands with her and giving her our thanks. She stood, steadying herself against the door beam, and saying to each of us as she shook our hands: "God love you. God love you for bringing happiness to a blankety blank blank like old Queen Bess."
The major was small and plump, with a face like a harvest moon, if you can imagine a harvest moon wearing a bristling moustache and goatee. Horsemen knew to their sorrow that the major owned a long memory, a short temper, and strong prejudices. Consistent racing was his cry and woe to the in-and-outer. "Somebody to see me, eh?" sputtered the major. "Blankety blank it to blank!
"He looked at me mighty solemn cherry-rum solemn. 'Obed, he says, 'you're a good feller. Don't you give me away, now, or I'll lose my berth. The man that owns that yacht's named Davidson, and he's got a summer place right in this town. "'Davidson! says I. 'DAVIDSON? Not young Allie Davidson? "'That's him, says he. 'And he's the blankety blankest meanest low-down cub on earth. There!
Which I take it none of you gentlemen have got, seeing you are sitting here at the board of Queen Bess. "Now, gentlemen," she concluded, "if it's asking too much of you to forget, the fault is mine and not yours. And nobody will be penalized or bawled out, blankety blank him, for being unable to forget.
He likewise spoke to us in words that were barely audible for the sound of the rush of the water. When we pieced together what each had heard, it came to "what the blankety blank has come over your tut tut-down-stream cargo boat? She was to bring me tea and sugar!
He looks so sorry that Americans cannot speak their own language as he speaks English! But there are phrases delivered by Americans that he understands, such as, "Blankety, blank, blank you all come here."
"And pon my soul they came on so hot I don't know what mightn't have happened, when all of a sudden, "'The boat! screams Fat George from behind. 'Some blankety blank's at the boat. "And sure enough there was a long-legged chap launching the boat. In he jumped, shoved her off, and lay on his oars, lookin at em, as they came running along the edge of the sea."
Folly stopped in her tracks. Her face went suddenly livid with rage. "No lydy!" she cried in the most directly expressive of all idioms. "If I wasn't a perfect lydy, I'd slap your blankety blank little blank." At each word of the virile repartee of Cockneydom coming so incongruously from those soft lips, Lewis's heart went down and down in big, jolting bumps.
Reaching back he unbuckled the strap, lifted the flap, and pulling out a cork inserted in the neck of what had been a glass flask, exclaimed: "Blankety blank their blank souls, they have broken my whisky bottle." Saying which, he wheeled and galloped back through a shower of whistling bullets.
'Hello! shouted Nixon as he caught sight of Graeme. 'Here you are! passing him a bottle. 'You're a knocker, a double-handed front door knocker. You polished off old whisky-soak here, old demijohn, pointing to Slavin, 'and I'll lay five to one we can lick any blankety blank thieves in the crowd, and he held up a roll of bills.
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