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I want to have a shot at a man of my own set, just to let Peggy Lovell see! I know what she thinks." "Just to let Mrs. Lovell see!" Edward echoed. "She has seen it lots of times, my dear Algy. Come; this looks lively. I was sure she would soon be sick of the water-gruel of peace." "I tell you she's got nothing to do with it, Ned. Don't be confoundedly unjust. She didn't tell me to go and seek him.
Blaisdell, "but if he's like the most of those eastern experts, Haight and I can fix him very easily." A little later the conversation ended, Mr. Blaisdell saying, as he rose to go to his room: "It is a confoundedly poor property, but I think a few tons of ore from the Yankee Boy will sell it all right."
'By Jove, Sir, it is quite true, Lady Carrick-o'-Gunniol was her godmother: and Toole ran off into the story of how that relationship was brought about; narrating it, however, with great caution and mildness, extracting all the satire, and giving it quite a dignified and creditable character, for the Lieutenant Fireworker smelt so confoundedly of powder that the little doctor, though he never flinched when occasion demanded, did not care to give him an open.
Gilman, to urge him to answer the detective in the affirmative. "Ye-es, sir. Since you are so confoundedly inquisitive, I am sailing to-night. I shall sail as soon as the tide serves," said Mr. Gilman hurriedly and fiercely, and then glanced again at Audrey for further approval. "Where for?" Mr. Hurley demanded. "Where I please, sir," Mr. Gilman snorted.
After which, I kissed her, shook hands with the major, kissed Matilda's hand, and laughed prodigiously, as though I had done something confoundedly droll, a sentiment evidently participated in by Sparks, who laughed too, as did the others; and a merrier, happier party never sat down to supper. "Make your company pleased with themselves," says Mr.
And thinks I to myself all the while, mind, while I was stubbing my silly toes against that cursed pyramid so confoundedly contradictory was it all, all the while, I say, I was thinking to myself, 'what's his leg now, but a cane a whalebone cane. Yes, thinks I, 'it was only a playful cudgelling in fact, only a whaleboning that he gave me not a base kick.
Cluffe never married, but grew confoundedly corpulent by degrees, and suffered plaguily from gout; but was always well dressed, and courageously buckled in, and, I dare say, two inches less in girth, thanks to the application of mechanics, than nature would have presented him.
Well, I should say, on general principles, that what two such girls didn't see in your work " "Of course! Then what would you do? Would you speak to her about it?" "Which?" "You know: Miss Saunders." "Ah! It seems rather difficult, doesn't it?" "Confoundedly." "Why, if you mean to say it was unconscious, perhaps I was mistaken. The thing may have been altogether in my own mind.
But here I'm alone, in a stale pool except as it's stirred by the great Mr. Bresnahan!" "My Lord, to hear you tell it, a fellow 'd think that all the denizens, as you impolitely call 'em, are so confoundedly unhappy that it's a wonder they don't all up and commit suicide. But they seem to struggle along somehow!" "They don't know what they miss. And anybody can endure anything.
They are flimsy sheets of tissue-paper covered with spidery characters in violet ink, and Bingo, taking them, recognises the handwriting, and is, as he states without hesitation, confoundedly flabbergasted. "For they are in my wife's wild scrawl," he splutters at last. "How on earth did they reach you, sir?"
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