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Lightning does not move more quickly than my Conscience did! He darted aloft so suddenly that in the moment my fingers clutched the empty air he was already perched on the top of the high bookcase, with his thumb at his nose in token of derision. I flung the poker at him, and missed. I fired the bootjack.
Why, I know of a little place in Oxfordshire, which, were it mine by inheritance as it is my brother's I would not stake against a Canons or a Petworth! 'And Stavordale would stake it against a bootjack rather than not play at all! Sir George answered complacently. 'The more fool he! snapped the doctor. 'So I think. 'Eh? 'So I think, Sir George answered coolly.
Certain, however, it is, that she was very reserved all the evening, in spite of the attentions of Mr. Woolsey; that she repeatedly looked round at the box-door, as if she expected someone to enter; and that she partook of only a very few oysters, indeed, out of the barrel which the gallant tailor had sent down to the "Bootjack," and off which the party supped. "What is it?" said Mr.
To have spoke to the Baron before I had assumed my title would have only provoked a premature and irritating discussion on the subject of the change of name, when, as Earl of Glennaquoich, I had only to propose to him to carry his d d bear and bootjack party per pale, or in a scutcheon of pretence, or in a separate shield perhaps any way that would not blemish my own coat of arms.
"Champney came home unexpectedly last evening, and the syndicate has offered him a position, a big one, in New York treasurer of the Flamsted Quarries Company; and our Romanzo's got a chance too " "You don't say! What is it?" Mrs. Caukins started up stairs whence came sounds of an obstreperous bootjack. "Paymaster, here in town; I'll explain in more propitious circumstances.
The mere entry into the establishment was, of course, not difficult. Any person by simply uttering the words "A pint of beer," was free of the "Bootjack;" and it was some such watchword that Howard Walker employed when he made his first appearance. He requested to be shown into a parlour, where he might repose himself for a while, and was ushered into that very sanctum where the "Kidney Club" met.
She had to work awful hard; this broke in on her serenity. Her husband devotedly loved her, so she said; but still, she said, his bootjack had been throwed voyalent where corns wuz hit onexpected. Their souls wuz mated firm as they could be in deathless ties of affection and confidence, yet doors had been slammed and oaths emitted, when clothin' rent and buttons tarried not with him.
He had the doctor's word for it that if he could get through to evening in safety he would be all right; but it is not very exhilarating to be waiting for symptoms, and to keep on glancing at your bootjack to see whether it is still a bootjack or whether it has begun to develop antennae and legs.
"Take care: he's mad," whispered the man with the bootjack. I began to laugh. Evidently they did think me mad. Unaccustomed to my habits, and ignorant of the music as they probably were, the mistake, however absurd, was not unnatural. I rose. They came closer to one another; and the night porter ran away. "Gentlemen," I said, "I am sorry for you.
None of our countrymen would, indeed, on purchasing a title, really ask to be addressed as "Your lordship," or even to be familiarly called Grand Forester or Sublime Bootjack to His Serene Highness unless in private, by some very much indulged servitor or judicious retainer.
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