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'I was serving my country, he answered with a lofty air. 'And what do you think would have happened to a Britisher who had been caught on a German ship, engaged in an act of such abominable treachery? returned Ken hotly. Kemp merely shrugged his shoulders. 'Well, it's not for me to deal with you, said Ken. 'We'll take him back, Roy, and he'll stand a proper court-martial.
He, the sleepiest, dullest, most British Britisher that had ever set a pretty woman yawning, had secured a brilliant matrimonial prize for which, as all chroniclers aver, there had been many competitors. Marguerite St. Just had first made her DEBUT in artistic Parisian circles, at the very moment when the greatest social upheaval the world has ever known was taking place within its very walls.
Slick, "he is a Christian is Jube, he is as good as a white Britisher: same flesh, only a leetle, jist a leetle darker; same blood, only not quite so old, ain't quite so much tarter on the bottle as a lord's has; oh him and a Britisher is all one brother oh by all means Him fader's hope him mudder's joy, Him darlin little nigger boy. You'd better cry over him, hadn't you.
He cussed the man he shot, then he cussed the world, then he cussed hisself, and with a terr'ble oath he jumped off the bough, and swung back'ards and for'ards with his neck broke. 'An Englishman, I reflected aloud. He nodded. 'You're a Britisher, I reckon, ain't yer? 'Yes; why? 'Wal, you've a puty strong accent. 'Think so? 'Wal, I could jest tie a knot in it.
His attitude always nettled the Doctor who was a warm Britisher, and when he answered the letter there was more about the young men who were responding to the call of the Empire from this same back concession, than there was about the subject in hand. Nevertheless Wallace's prophecy had come true. Uncle Will had recovered from his bilious attack.
"There is a type of Britisher," said the consul, "who thinks Tahiti is his oyster, to be opened with false pretenses, and a pearl found. This type has two varieties, impecunious, but well-educated, youths, younger sons, maybe; and valets and varlets.
They'll say: That silly little fool Julia Crowley has married another beastly Britisher. 'That is more alliterative than polite, he retorted. 'On the other hand my friends and relations are already saying: What on earth has poor Dick Lomas married an American for? We always thought he was very well-to-do.
America once fought and beat England, in long-forgotten days, on the ground of law. That very ground of law that law-abidingness which is as deeply engrained in the men of Massachusetts to-day as it is in any Britisher is a bond of sympathy between the two in this great struggle of the nations.
He was just the best natured Britisher that ever came along. 'Twas just the medicine to cure his disease. Hain't touched a fish for three days. Just so, stranger, rejoined Pluck, tellin' the cook to get the skipper of the Devastation to be kind enough to lend him a keg of water. "'Schooner Spunk, of Barnstable, 84 tons burden, Jacob Pluck, master, &c., &c.
He was an American and had not the least objection to being hustled by a Britisher; indeed he rather appreciated this exhibition of haste as a novel experience. "I'm on a hair-trigger myself," he said, pleasantly. "I want to make Victoria pretty quick. Can I give you a lift?" "In with you!" cried Theydon. "Now, cabby, half a sovereign if you get us to Victoria, Brighton line, in 15 minutes.
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