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He caught something harder than a blanket and pulled out a fearful thing a shapeless, muddy bunch of leather tied together with wire and twine. From its ragged end, like the head and claws of a disturbed turtle, protruded human toes. "Who-ee!" yelled Long Collins. "Ranse, are you a-packin' around of corpuses? Here's a howlin' grasshoppers!"
"I vos a deadt man!" squawked the Dutch lad, as he went over in a heap. "I'm shot, by gum!" squealed the Yankee, as his knees collapsed and he measured his long length upon the ground. "Smoke!" cried Barney Mulloy, grasping his nose with both hands. "It smells loike ye'd both been corpuses fer a long toime!" "By Jove!" gasped Frank. "That odor is strong enough to lift a safe!"
He caught something harder than a blanket and pulled out a fearful thing a shapeless, muddy bunch of leather tied together with wire and twine. From its ragged end, like the head and claws of a disturbed turtle, protruded human toes. "Who-ee!" yelled Long Collins. "Ranse, are you a-packin' around of corpuses? Here's a howlin' grasshoppers!"
Then indeed we should have a small world of our own, with the learned professions all represented; for of course Phil by that time will be qualified to do our law for us, in case we quarrel and require writs and replevins or habeas corpuses, or any last wills and testaments drawn up.
More like a cage full? wild beasties from Bedlam than a Christian ship. And for the last hour she might ha been a hulk full o corpuses." He dropped his voice still further. "He's in it, sure!" jerking his thumb starward. "Made em blind to the world for His own good purpose which is as you should lay em aboard unbeknownst and knife the blessed lot if so be it was your fancy."
He learned to write his beautiful copper-plate hand, and knocked the bottom out of arithmetic and geography. Then came sheer erudition the nature of chemical elements, stars in their courses, kings of England with their Magna Chartas and habeas corpuses.
Such superstitions were normal in these vulnerable and tenuous corpuses and he was no different. He laughed; he amused himself like no other. He looked at himself in the mirror. It was the same handsome face. It was not a half rotten apple hanging loosely from a tree at least not yet. It was the same brawny body that had amorously begotten another male in the phantasmagoria of this world.
It was the verra best you cud do, or ye wadna hae come within sicht o' me. I mayna be muckle at thrashin' attoarneys, or cuttin' up deid corpuses, but I defy ye to come up to me at onything conneckit wi' buiks." "Faith! Mr Cupples, ye may gang farther nor that. Efter what ye hae dune for me, gin I war a general, ye sud lead the Forlorn Hope." "Ay, ay.
It was easy to see that Madame Morrow did not want to become another Helen, to be abducted to some modern Troy, and have a ten years’ row, and any quantity of habeas corpuses, and innumerable contempts of interminable courts, after the modern fashion of conducting a strife about a runaway maiden.
Evil always going to jail despite habeas corpuses, writs, and duces tecums. To question the nobility of the Hazlitt soul would be a sidestepping. There were among his friends, men of dubious integrity with elastic scruples and pliable consciences. But skepticism thrust in vain at the Hazlitt armor. In him had been authentically born the mania for conformity. He was a prosecutor by birth.
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