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Behind Rhoda stood Gertrude's own husband; his countenance lined, his eyes dim, but without a tear. 'D-n you! what are you doing here? he said hoarsely. 'Hussy to come between us and our child now! cried Rhoda. 'This is the meaning of what Satan showed me in the vision! You are like her at last! And clutching the bare arm of the younger woman, she pulled her unresistingly back against the wall.
"Ay, ay, come along then, Captain," said the fellow, with a contortion of visage which he intended to be a smile; "and I'll tell you now, to show you that I have a conscience, as ye ca't, d-n me if I charge ye abune sixpence a day for the freedom o' the court, and ye may walk in't very near three hours a day, and play at pitch-and-toss and handba', and what not."
I have myself seen, in a certain Hungarian nobleman's house, some valuable arms, which I knew I had been robbed of! and I bought at Esseck some silver plates on which were the arms of Prussia, that had been sold by Counsellor D-n, who had been empowered to take possession of these estates, and had thus rendered himself rich.
‘A Jack-in-office, sir, and a very insolent fellow,’ reiterates the stranger, now completely in a passion. ‘Pray do not force me to put you out, sir,’ retorts the other—‘pray do not—my instructions are to keep this passage clear—it’s the Speaker’s orders, sir.’ ‘D-n the Speaker, sir!’ shouts the intruder.
His cry from a window, of "How now, Tearum, what's the matter, sir? down, d-n ye, down!" produced no abatement of Tearum's vociferation, which in part prevented his master from bearing the sounds of alarm which his ferocious vigilance was in the act of challenging. But the mate of the two-legged Cerberus was gifted with sharper ears than her husband.
She drew herself up with dignity, and only replied to Captain Brown's last remark by saying, with marked emphasis on every syllable, "I prefer Dr Johnson to Mr Boz." It is said I won't vouch for the fact that Captain Brown was heard to say, sotto voce, "D-n Dr Johnson!"
"I've got fifty thousand pounds in the Plymouth Bank." "You'll have to let me have it." Clark hesitated. "I don't know," said he. "D-n it, man, I'll give you any security you wish. I've got more security than I know what to do with." "Well," said Clark, "I don't know. There's a risk." "I only want it for a few days. I'll send down stock to my London broker and have it sold.
'Wery well, replied Bob, 'here goes it! and off he hurried to his case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions, perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards!
"D-n it," rejoins Mr. Snivel, with a sardonic laugh, "these folks are affecting to be something." Maria raises her right hand, and motions Mr. Keepum away. It does indeed seem to her that the moment when nature in her last struggle unbends before the destroyer-when the treasure of a life passes away to give place to dark regrets and future remorse, is come.
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