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‘“No, no,” said he—“it must be somebody that I can love.” ‘“Why, you just said you never could be in love again!” ‘“Well, love is not the word—but somebody that I can like. I’ll search all England through, at all events!” he cried, with a sudden burst of hope, or desperation. “Succeed or fail, it will be better than rushing headlong to destruction at that d-d club: so farewell to it and you.
'A tribe of daughters, too, I suppose? 'No, no, said Lady Langdale, 'daughters would be past all endurance. 'There's a cousin, though, a Grace Nugent, said Mrs. Dareville, 'that Lady Clonbrony has with her. 'Best part of her, too, said Colonel Heathcock; 'd-d fine girl! never saw her look better than at the opera to-night!
'Severity! said the fellow, with a kind of groan, 'I wish you had had my dreams when I first came to this dog-hole, and tried to sleep among the dry seaweed. First, there was that d-d fellow there, with his broken back, sprawling as he did when I hurled the rock over a-top on him, ha, ha! You would have sworn he was lying on the floor where you stand, wriggling like a crushed frog, and then
Sir, sack will make a cat sing, and speak too; so up with a merry stave, or trundle yourself out of my doors! Do you think you are to take up all my valuable time with your d-d declarations, and then tell me you cannot sing?"
In the corner old Tom himself could be seen, a wizened figure of wrath. "Who's that?" he demanded of his son, "another d-d fool?" "No," replied young Tom, "it's Austen Vane." "What's he doin' here?" old Tom demanded, with a profane qualification as to the region. But young Tom seemed to be the only being capable of serenity amongst the flames that played around him.
"Knowing Number Seven," Austen continued, "you probably realize that the political and business future of nearly every one of the twenty State senators depends upon the favour of the Northeastern Railroads." "I know that the d-d fools won't look at money," said Mr. Gaylord; "Hammer's tried 'em."
I wrote them for you this morning farewell; my clerk has been waiting this hour to begin a d-d information." And away walked Mr. Pleydell with great activity, diving through closes and ascending covered stairs, in order to attain the High Street by an access, which, compared to the common route, was what the Straits of Magellan are to the more open, but circuitous passage round Cape Horn.
Politics are the religion of France; as Nanty Ewart would have said, 'A d-d bad religion'; while we, at home, keep most of our bitterness for little differences about a hymn-book, or a Hebrew word which perhaps neither of the parties can translate.
There is no young gentleman of these parts, who might be in rank or fortune a match for Miss Julia, that I think at all likely to play such a character. . . But on the other side of the lake, nearly opposite to Mervyn Hall, is a d-d cake-house, the resort of walking gentlemen of all descriptions, poets, players, painters, musicians, who come to rave, and recite, and madden, about this picturesque land of ours.
"Son and father?" he cried. "Father and son? What d-d unnatural comedy is all this? How do you come in my garden? What do you want? And who, in God's name, are you?" Francis, with a stunned and shamefaced aspect, got upon his feet again, and stood in silence. Then a light seemed to break upon Mr. Vandeleur, and he laughed aloud "I see," cried he. "It is the Scrymgeour. Very well, Mr. Scrymgeour.
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