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Soon Macfarlane handed a little pile of gold to his companion. 'A compliment, he said. 'Between friends these little d-d accommodations ought to fly like pipe-lights. Fettes pocketed the money, and applauded the sentiment to the echo. 'You are a philosopher, he cried. 'I was an ass till I knew you. You and K- between you, by the Lord Harry! but you'll make a man of me.
"Avast," says he, with an oath, "what's this come among us?" and he looked me over with a comical eye. "A d-d provincial," he went on scornfully, "but a gentleman's son, or Jack Ball's a liar." Whereupon his companions rose from their seats and crowded round me. More than one reeled against me.
But when informed that, in accordance with the original, the drapery of one leg would have to be looped up above the knee, her ladyship used very firm language; and, though of course perfectly ladylike, would, rendered into masculine terms, have signified that she would 'see the painter d-d first. The celebrated 'Cruche cassee' of Greuze, was represented by the reigning beauty, the Marquise de Gallifet, with complete fidelity and success.
Ruck continued, "I stepped in at the banker's to see if there wasn't something, and they handed me out a Herald." "I hope the Herald is full of good news," I said. "Can't say it is. D-d bad news." "Political," I inquired, "or commercial?" "Oh, hang politics! It's business, sir. There ain't any business. It's all gone to," and Mr. Ruck became profane. "Nine failures in one day.
"You d-d ungrateful villain!" says he, "what do you stand there laughing for?" "I'm waiting your orders for Timbuctoo, sir," says I, and laughed fit to die; and so did my Lord Tiptoff and his party, who joined us on the lawn: and Jeames the footman came forward and helped Mr. Preston out of the water. "Oh, you old sinner!" says my Lord, as his brother-in-law came up the slope.
'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
"By heaven," said Bertram, "it is the very ballad. I must learn these words from the girl." "Confusion!" thought Glossin; "if I cannot put a stop to this, all will be out. Oh, the devil take all ballads, and ballad-makers, and ballad-singers! and that d-d jade too, to set up her pipe! "How do you mean, sir?" said Bertram, turning short upon him, and not liking the tone which he made use of.
Huddlestone's tale; and in an instant we were all four as white as paper, and sat tongue-tied and motionless round the table. "A snail," I said at last; for I had heard that these animals make a noise somewhat similar in character. "Snail be d-d!" said Northmour. "Hush!"
My host, for instance, always calls a black 'a d-d nigger'; but if that nigger is wronged or oppressed he fights for him, or bails him out of the Tronk, and an English jury gives a just verdict; while a Dutch one simply finds for a Dutchman, against any one else, and ALWAYS against a dark man.
'Hold your tongue and be d-d, you , answered her loving husband, with two additional epithets of great energy, but which we beg to be excused from repeating. Then addressing Bertram 'Come, will you get out, my handy lad, or must we lend you a lift?
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