Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 8, 2025
"Could not the affair be arranged otherwise?" interrupted another. "Will not Mr Bottlegreen retract?" "My name is Simple, sir, and not Bottlegreen," replied I; "and as he did tell a falsehood, I will not retract?" "Then the affair must go on," said the midshipman. "Robinson, will you oblige me by acting as my second?"
"Come, Mr Bottlegreen," he bawled out, alluding, I suppose, to the colour of my clothes, "rouse and bitt. There's the captain's coxswain waiting for you below. By the powers, you're in a pretty scrape for what you did last night!" "Did last night!" replied I, astonished. "Why, does the captain know that I was tipsy?"
I was very much shocked at my having so soon forgotten the injunctions of my parents, and was making vows never to be so foolish again, when in came the midshipman who had been so kind to me the night before. "Come, Mr Bottlegreen," he bawled out, alluding, I suppose, to the colour of my clothes, "rouse and bitt. There's the captain's coxswain waiting for you below.
When I had finished, they burst out laughing, and said that they had only been joking with me. "Well," said I to the one who had called me up in the morning, "you may call it joking, but I call it lying." "Pray, Mr Bottlegreen, do you refer to me?" "Yes, I do," replied I. "Then, sir, as a gentleman, I demand satisfaction. Slugs in a saw-pit. Death before dishonour, d e!"
When I had finished, they burst out laughing, and said that they had only been joking with me. "Well," said I to the one who had called me up in the morning, "you may call it joking, but I call it lying." "Pray, Mr Bottlegreen, do you refer to me?" "Yes, I do," replied I. "Then, sir, as a gentleman I demand satisfaction. Slugs in a saw-pit. Death before dishonour, damn me!"
"Could not the affair be arranged otherwise?" interrupted another. "Will not Mr Bottlegreen retract?" "My name is Simple, sir, and not Bottlegreen," replied I; "and as he did tell a falsehood, I will not retract." "Then the affair must go on," said the midshipman. "Robinson, will you oblige me by acting as my second?"
Word Of The Day
Others Looking