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The architect stammered from sheer vexation: 'Yes, I am going to pay a visit. It's confoundedly idiotic in the country, eh? But it can't be helped. There are certain things one's obliged to do. And you live near here, eh? I knew that is to say, I didn't. I had been told something about it, but I thought it was on the opposite side, farther down.
And now, gentlemen, I want to ask you to be kind enough, before you leave us, to sign as witnesses to its truth the entry that I shall be obliged to make in my official log; for the story is such a confoundedly queer one that, unless it is well vouched for by independent persons, I very much doubt whether my owners, or anybody else, for that matter, will believe it."
After this he alluded professionally to the damage done to the ship, and went on thus: "It was when the weather quieted down that the situation became confoundedly delicate. It wasn't made any better by us having been lately transferred to the Siamese flag; though the skipper can't see that it makes any difference 'as long as we are on board' he says.
I told thee thy harebrainedness and love of adventure would get us into the suds yet," spoke up Lee. "Then the ninety light horse whom we left surrounding the house are thy troops?" he questioned laughingly, of the four officers. "Devil pick your bones, the two of you!" swore Mobray. "Wast not enough that we should be so confoundedly gapped, but you must come with the bowl but half emptied.
"Ho! ho!" exclaimed D'Artagnan, picking up a louis and displaying it; "here's a louis that smells confoundedly of straw." Mousqueton blushed so confusedly that the Gascon began to laugh at him and said: "Porthos would be angry, my dear Monsieur Mousqueton, but I pardon you, only let us remember that this gold must serve us as a joke, so be gay come along."
"I say, Betty, please don't cry," and his voice shook; "it makes it so much harder for me; and it is hard enough as it is confoundedly hard!" "Then why do it?" "Because I must." "I don't see that; it is pure Quixotism." "I wish to goodness I could think that; but I can't. It appears to me a question about which there could not be two opinions." The tears dried on Elisabeth's lashes.
But say evil of a man, tell him to his face, without thought of punishment, merely in candid criticism that you find him ill and, besides giving him a bad name, you will make a dog of him. She had said he was a gentleman bless her heart! "This staircase is confoundedly dark," he said; "I'll strike a match."
You're confoundedly unreasonable, Hickman. Why feel, or pretend to feel, more for these fellows, their barelegged wives, and ragged brats, than you do for a nobleman of rank, to whom you are deeply indebted.
"First of all," said the Count, "I am not a citizen, but an officer, which is a very different thing; and secondly, I am not a Hollander, but a Frenchman, which is more different still. I have to do with no one but the States, by whom I am paid; let me see an order from them to leave the place to you, and I shall only be too glad to wheel off in an instant, as I am confoundedly bored here."
Over his brow there hovered a vexed business frown, nor did this altogether vanish as he advanced upon Carlisle, a lover's welcome springing imperiously into his eyes. "Isn't this the devil's own luck?... Deming insists it all depends on me." "You go at nine-thirty?" "He says he'll manacle me if necessary. It's confoundedly important, you see there are large interests involved.
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