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"Damme, Jack, didst thee ever take hell in tow before?" said a sailor from the Terror of France to his fellow once, as the marines grappled with a flotilla of French fire-ships, and dragged them, spitting destruction, clear of the fleet, to the shore. "Nay, but I've been in tow of Jimmy Wolfe's red head; that's hell-fire, lad!" was the reply.
Rushcroft," said Barnes. "She's much too splendid for that. I have a proposition I'd like to make to you later on. I cannot make it, however, without consulting Miss Thackeray's feelings." "My dear fellow!" beamed Rushcroft, seizing the other's hand. "One frequently reads in books about it coming like this, at first sight, but, damme, I never dreamed that it ever really happened. Count on me!
You have been so" for once her placid words stumbled "so sordid about this." "Damme, Susan, don't be a saint." Mr. Hadley grinned. "They die virgins." It was a time of wild plots. The long war of Marlborough had left England impregnably triumphant, and France ambitious of nothing but peace. No fear remained that foreign arms would carry James, the Pretender by right divine, to his sister's throne.
I ought prop'ly to stand on my rights, but seein' as you're a well-meaning young man, so to speak, an' all settled an' a-livin' 'ere quiet an' matrimonual, I'll" this with a burst of generosity "damme! yus, I'll compound the felony an' take me 'ook. Come, I'll name a figure, as man to man, fust an' last, no less an' no more. Five pound does it."
After all, it was no such matter, for he would soon be gone with his father to France. He might well hope never to see her again. So on that ride through the steep wooded lanes to Highgate, his father found him morose, and complained of it. "Damme, for a young fellow that's off to his lady-love you are a mighty poor thing, Harry." "My lady-love! I have no taste for rich food.
"Damme, Bully, you refushe bet like tha'!" he said. "I'll take doshen of 'em-doshen, egad. Gimme the book, Brooksh. Cursh Fox lay thousand d d provinshial never getsh 'er I know " I sat very still, seized with a loathing beyond my power to describe to thick that this was the man Mr. Manners was forcing her to marry. Fox laughed. "Help his Grace to his coach," he said to two of the footmen.
"'Can be useful to her country," repeats Beauvayse "Question is, in what way?" "Damme if I can imagine!" bursts explosively from the deserted husband.
Lord Augustus also bowed and then stood for a few moments silent with his fat hands extended on the round table in the middle of the room. "This is a very disagreeable kind of thing, my Lord," he said. "Very disagreeable, and one that I lament above all things," answered Lord Rufford: "That's all very well; very well indeed; but, damme, what's the meaning of it all? That's what I want to ask.
Theriere turned once to see that they were following him, and then a turn in the trail hid them from his view. Red Sanders stopped. "Damme if I'm goin' to get my coconut hacked off on any such wild-goose chase as this," he said to Wison. "The girl's more'n likely dead long ago," said the other. "Sure she is," returned Red Sanders, "an' if we go buttin' into that there thicket we'll be dead too.
But I must not miscall the dear old man, for I stole his supper." "I wish he'd flogged him into precision on a staircase," said the Colonel. "Damme, I am hungry." "I'm thinking there'll be a dub of water in the bottom yonder," said the chieftain, "and Mistress Waynflete shall, if she will, take her first meal Highland fashion."
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