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Then he sized up the moral odds; and though a biased audience might be at first supposed to weigh against him too, the sight of all those Arabs waiting to see him beaten roused his fighting dander. "Do you represent the bloke that spat on us two men?" asked Crothers. "Ah represent maself! Ah'm English! Ah fight English, and Ah'll prove it!" "Aw, wade into him!" advised Joe Byng.
Once Barry Whalen, the most outwardly brusque and apparently frank of them all, had urged Byng to give Krool up, but without avail; and now Barry eyed the half-caste with a resentful determination. He knew that Krool had heard Byng's words, for he was sitting opposite the double doors, and had seen the malicious eyes light up. Instantly, however, that light vanished.
I was so young, so unschooled, when you first asked me, and I did not know my own mind; but I know it now, and so I go to Rudyard Byng for better or for worse " He suddenly stopped reading, sat back in his chair, and laughed sardonically. "For richer, for poorer' now to have launched out on the first phrase, and to have jibbed at the second was distinctly stupid.
Charles Byng, except that which has been told you by the innocent lips of his betrothed, which the law of the land has now sealed for ever in the mouth of his wife, and that our own actual experience of his acts have been in the main exculpatory of any previous irregularity if not incompatible with it. Briefly, no judge would charge, no jury convict, on such evidence.
A clause was added to a money-bill, offering the reward of one hundred thousand pounds to such as should seize the pretender dead or alive. Sir George Byng was sent to take the command of the fleet.
He replied, without hesitation, "George Byng, ma'am," thereby eliciting the very natural rejoinder, "But that's what you told me twenty years ago!" This fragment of anecdotage, whether true or false, is eminently characteristic of Lord Russell. In principles, beliefs, opinions, even in tastes and habits, he was singularly unchanging.
What have you come to see me about?" "I know I'm not welcome here, Byng. It isn't the same as it used to be. It isn't " Byng jerked quickly to his feet and lunged forward as though he would do his visitor violence; but he got hold of himself in time, and, with a sudden and whimsical toss of the head, characteristic of him, he burst into a laugh.
I don't see that it's any of YOUR d d business so to speak; but ez the Judge here allows you're all in the secret, I've called you in to take a partin' drink to the health of Mr. and Mrs. Charley Byng ez is now comf'ably off on their bridal tower.
That unsightly but comfortable mansion was then in its days of glory, and those who frequented it had no reason to regret the past. "Poodle Byng," who carried down to 1871 the social conditions of the eighteenth century, declared that nothing could be duller than Devonshire House in his youth. "It was a great honour to go there, but I was bored to death.
He said he didn't like to ask for a cheque, because we were always giving, but selling my old wardrobe would be a sort of lucky find that's what he called it." Byng nodded, with a half-frown, however. "That was ingenious of Fellowes, and thoughtful, too. Now, what does a gown cost, one like that you have on?" "This let me see. Why, fifty pounds, perhaps. It's not a ball gown, of course."
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