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"Plague take it! What can we have done that the dear Vidame is punishing us by keeping his word to the infanta? I should be pitiable indeed if I did not know her " "And I was once a coxcomb even as he," said the Vidame, indicating de Marsay. The conversation continued pitched in the same key, charmingly scandalous, and agreeably corrupt. The dinner went off very pleasantly.
"It would be of use if you would treat me with some sort of pity and consideration, instead of doing me vile injustice in your mind. I could bear everything more quietly if I knew you didn't hate me for an insolent coxcomb. Look at me; see what a hunted devil I am; I've been riding thirty miles every day to get away from the thought of you." Maggie did not dared not look.
I suspected you yesterday morning of bearing malice against that coxcomb, who deserved to be laughed at, but not to be shot. By Jove, Walsingham, you're an honest fellow, I find. 'And have you but just found that out, admiral? said Walsingham, with a proud smile. 'Harkee, my lad, said Dashleigh, calling after him, 'remember, I'm your friend, at all events.
Slanderers or impostors had persuaded this young coxcomb that Casimir, the King of Poland, whilst dwelling in Paris in the quality of a simple gentleman, had shown himself most assiduous to Madame Brisacier, and that he, Brisacier of France, was born of these assiduities of the Polish prince.
Thou hast mist the luckiest hand to scratch thy Coxcomb. Ley. No, no, Sir. Now for my part. Heigh! fight aloft for the head, boyes. How? Cater-trey ? Utr. Will you take a sleeve for your share, Sir? Ley. 'Tis but a desperat cast, and so hee'l find it, If it fall to me. Cast for your game. Utr. Have at it: Stay, let me swing my Sword thrice round first: now, Now the Graves head ... goose giblitts.
Consequently, when the arrogant Louvois carried a war to the credit of his own little account on the national leger of France, this coxcomb well knew that a war was at any rate due about that time. Really, says he, I must find out some little war to exhaust the surplus irritability of this person, or he'll be the death of me.
"He is too modest to hear his titles," said the third, "and he never can bear his nicknames." "Do you suppose," said the Slanderer, "that you yourself have no titles. Call for," said he, "master Coxcomb, alias Smooth Gullet, alias Poison Smile." "Ready," said a woman who was there, pointing to the Coxcomb. "O," said he, "madam Bouncer! Your humble servant, I am overjoyed at seeing you well.
Toplady, a celebrated methodist preacher of the last age, somewhere relates a story of a coxcomb, who told him that he had read over Euclid's Elements of Geometry one afternoon at his tea, only leaving out the A's and B's and crooked lines, which seemed to be intruded merely to retard his progress.
"Odso! courteous knight," said the baron, "is this the return you make for my beef and canary, when you kissed my daughter's hand in token of contrition for your intermeddling at her wedding? Heart, I am glad to see she has given you a bloody coxcomb. Slice him down, Mawd! slice him down, and fling him into the river."
To the office and there all the morning, where Sir W. Pen, like a coxcomb, was so ready to cross me in a motion I made unawares for the entering a man at Chatham into the works, wherein I was vexed to see his spleene, but glad to understand it, and that it was in no greater a matter, I being not at all concerned here. To the 'Change and did several businesses there and so home with Mr.
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