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"It was too bad of you, Campbell," he said, "to play the good old man such a dog's trick." At the word Campbell the piper shook off his grandson, and sprang once more to his feet, his head thrown back, and every inch of his body trembling with rage. "She might haf known," he screamed, half choking, "that a cursed tog of a Cawmill was in it!"
That cursed stupid game of his with the telephone at the Headquarters of the Baraland Rides might cost him more than the bit of twist with which he had bribed the orderly, left for a moment in sole charge, and demoralised by the sight of tobacco.
"You are a damned coward to speak so to a man who cannot even turn on his side to curse you for a base hound. You would not dare it but that you know I cannot defend myself." "You are right, my lord; your conduct is indefensible." "By heaven! if I could but get this cursed leg under me, I would throw you out of the window." "I shall go by the door, my lord.
It was, 'My lord, your Newmarket blunders' 'My lady, your cursed theatricals' 'My lord, I have surely a right' and, 'My lady, I have surely as good a right. "But, my dear Belinda, however we might pay one another, we could not pay all the world with words. In short, after running through thousands and tens of thousands, we were actually in distress for money.
I would have taken anything, even a servant's work, I believe." He cursed himself to think that it was through him that she had come to such things. "But I was lucky," she went on, hurriedly.
All Paris has been mourning at the cursed decree which Law has persuaded my son to make. I have received anonymous letters, stating that I have nothing to fear on my own account, but that my son shall be pursued with fire and sword; that the plan is laid and the affair determined on. From another quarter I have learnt that knives are sharpening for my son's assassination.
"Had my tomahawk obeyed the first impulse of my heart, I should have cursed myself and died: as it is, I have reason to avoid all useless exposure of my own life, at present. A second bullet may be better directed; and to die, robbed of my revenge, would ill answer the purpose of a life devoted to its attainment. Remember my pledge!"
And Manöel was sent away, cursed by my father for ingratitude and treachery, warned never to come again near Djazerta or the douar as long as he lived, unless he wished for my death as well as his." "Have you never seen him since?" Sanda asked, her heart beating fast with the rush of the story as Ourïeda had told it. "Yes, he has seen me, and I have seen him.
The government had stolen more than two years of his life by making him serve in the army, and he was not going to return good for evil. With beautiful simplicity of reasoning he cursed the souls of the government's dead daily, as if it had been a family of his acquaintance. But the Pope was quite another personage.
In fact my brain run on so fast in its devisings, that by a quick process, less logical than pleasing, I satisfied myself that the lovely Lady Jane Callonby was actually in love, with whom let the reader guess at. And Lord Callonby too, about to join the ministry well, all the better to have one's father-in-law in power promotion is so cursed slow now a-days.
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