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'Hoo-ray! hoo-ray! hoo-ray! shouted a group of flannel-clad navvies. 'Three for white jacket! then roared a blue-coated butcher, who had won as many half-crowns on the race. Three cheers were given for the unwilling winner.
A few minutes later a squad of United States cavalry, in charge of a dapper, blue-coated lieutenant, rode up to the farm. And when they arrived Seth was there by himself to receive them. "Rube Sampson's farm?" inquired the lieutenant, as he swung from his steaming horse. "Right." Seth shook hands with the man.
Its rider, a blue-coated sowar, or cavalryman, with bare feet thrust into heelless native slippers, sat on the ground near it smoking a hubble-bubble. A chorus of neighing answered his screaming horse from the filthy stalls, outside which stood foul-smelling manure-heaps, around which mangy pariah dogs nosed.
The old lady as she passed on with, "Oh! he was a precious fellow," leaving him, who was in fact all meekness and incapacity, "affected even to tears by the incident." If we saw nothing, however, of that retainer of Dr. Blimber, we were introduced to another, meaning the blue-coated, bright-buttoned butler, "who gave quite a winey flavour to the table-beer he poured it out so superbly!" We had Dr.
If they had comprehended the dire threats, the personal remarks, and unmitigated scorn of those three fair travellers, the blue-coated imbeciles would have been reduced to submission.
Puzzled, Constance took her arm and slowly walked her up the street toward her own apartment in the hope that she might catch sight of some familiar face or be able to pull herself together. But it was of no use. They passed a policeman who eyed them sharply. The mere sight of the blue-coated officer sent a shudder through the already trembling girl on her arm.
'That ass Jawleyford, as I live! exclaimed Jack, as the blue-coated servant now hove in sight. 'So it is! said Lord Scamperdale; 'the confounded humbug! 'This boy'll be after one of the young ladies, observed Jack; 'not one of the writing chaps we thought he was. 'Shouldn't wonder, replied Lord Scamperdale; adding, in an undertone, 'I vote we have a rise out of old Jaw.
A passenger steamer was preparing for its appointed flight south and a knot of blue-coated policemen maintained a safe path from curb to dock entrance. Here was a touch of liveliness and gayety the released laughter of people bent on a holiday, hopeful farewells called out heartily, taxicabs dashing up with exaggerated haste.
The door flew open, and a whirlwind composed of blue-coated troopers came in with a swoop. It was headed by the lieutenant. "Oh, here you are!" he cried, catching his breath. "We thought Oh, look at the girl!" The captain said intensely, "Shut up, you fool!" The men settled to a halt with a clash and a bang. There could be heard the dulled sound of many hoofs outside of the house.
They had no doubt been called forth with that intent, and a doubt had begun to arise in the victim's mind whether the last reply had been really the Queen's own. It had been delivered to him in the street, not by the usual channel, but by a blue-coated serving-man.
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