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Again she left the rug, stepped to the telegraph instrument, and fingered the key daintily until she had, with the other hand, turned down the "out" card. Then she threw the switch, rattled an impatient reply, and waited, listening to the rapid clicking of the sounder. Her eyes and her mouth hardened as she read. "Cad!" she gritted under her breath.
The cad, by a remarkable coincidence, happened to entertain a directly contrary opinion, and Heaven knows how far the altercation would have proceeded, if it had not been most ably and satisfactorily brought to a close by the driver. He can’t reject that, anyhow.’
"She shook her 'cad, and, arter telling me to wait, went in and fetched her 'usband. "'Never 'eard of him, he ses, 'and we've been 'ere seventeen years. Are you sure it was twenty-seven? "'Sartain, I ses. "'Well, he don't live 'ere, he ses. 'Why not try thirty-seven and forty-seven?
"If James Terry, the bookmaker, loud, florid, vulgar, was an unprepossessing individual, certainly George Higgins, who was still under the accusation of murder, was ten thousand times more so. "None too clean, slouchy, obsequious yet insolent, he was the very personification of the cad who haunts the racecourse and who lives not so much by his own wits as by the lack of them in others.
Yet had the captain and his men known the cause of all this had they been aware that that flash, half-tipsy cad of a fellow who, with half a dozen of his "pals," was watching the match with a critical air, there at the ropes was the landlord of the Cockchafer himself, the holder of Loman's "little bill" for 30 pounds, they would perhaps have understood and forgiven their comrade's clumsiness.
"I was a brute and a cad, I suppose. But it seemed fatally easy to hold one's tongue. And now he has gone to America." "But he can be brought back again, Percival." "If he will come. I fancy that it will take a strong rope to drag him back. You want to know the reason for my silence? It isn't far to seek.
As he did so, his fingers shook so that the match bobbed against the pipe-bowl, and it was very manifest that he was undergoing a great strain. He stood there staring at the store. Once he began to move towards it irresolutely, then changed his mind and came to a standstill again. "No!" he whispered below his breath. "I'll wait till the cad comes out I'll force him to acknowledge me."
"I won't marry you, and there's an end of it." "It isn't that I'm thinking of," said Mr. Woods, with a grave smile. "You see, it takes me a little time to realise your honest opinion of me. I believe I understand now. You think me a very hopeless cad that's about your real opinion, isn't it, Peggy? I didn't know that, you see. I thought you knew me better than that.
What a versatile genius my co-trustee appears to be a tutor to an heir, a defaulting and rusticated undergraduate, a penniless music-hall cad. Dear, dear! what a curious settlement of scores we shall have, to be sure or rather, should have had, had our poor dear Roger remained with us. Heigho! what a curious sensation it will be, to be sure, to own a fortune."
A cad from the Potterrow once struck him in the mouth; he struck back, the pair fought it out in the back stable lane towards the Meadows, and Archie returned with a considerable decline in the number of his front teeth, and unregenerately boasting of the losses of the foe. It was a sore day for Mrs.
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