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"Ay, it's that whelp, Sir John, who has marred what the great baronet left as his monument," growled old Peter Van Horn. "That's treason!" snapped the patroon. "Stop it. I won't have politics talked in my presence, no! Dammy, Peter, hold your tongue, sir!" Dorothy, wearing the lilac spray, vaulted lightly into her saddle, and I mounted my mare.
Then Walter Butler would sing, and, I confess, did it well, though the song was sad and the words too melancholy to please. "I know a rebel song," cried Colonel Claus. "Here, give me that fiddle and I'll fiddle it, dammy if I don't ay, and sing it, too!"
Give me the new cream. I guess I might's well make some spice cookies. Be pretty busy Wednesday. Dammy likes 'em a little stale." "Mis' Egg," said the cook, "if this was Dammy that'd kind of strayed off and come home sick in his old age " "Give me the cream," Mrs. Egg commanded, and was surprised by the fierceness of her own voice. "I don't need any help seein' my duty, thanks!"
I'll give her twenty pound there's Warrington's twenty pound, which he has just paid but what's the use? She'll want more, and more, and more, and that cormorant Morgan will swallow all. No, dammy, I can't afford to know poor people; and to-morrow I'll say good-by to Mrs. Brixham and Mr. Morgan."
"Suppose these rebels are right and, dammy, but I think they are and suppose our King's troops are roundly trouncing them and I think they are, too do you mean to say you'd draw sword and go a-prowling, seeking for some obliging enemy to knock you in the head or hang you for a rebel to your neighbor's apple-tree?" "Something of that sort," I said, good-humoredly.
She can't help being a coquette, Mr. Pendennis, she can't help it. Dammy, sir! I'll be bound to say, that two or three of the Bartholomew chaps, that I've brought into my place, are sitting with her now: even Jack Linton, that I took down as my best man, is as bad as the rest, and she will go on singing and making eyes at him.
He asked, "You been fumigatin'?" "Fumigatin'! Why, Dammy, there ain't been a disease in the house since you had whoopin' cough." "Sulphur," Adam drawled. "Why, Dammy Egg! I never used sulphur for nothin' in my life!" He took a jar of preserves and ripped off the paraffin wafer that covered the top. Then he set the jar aside and sat down on the floor. Mrs. Egg watched him unlace his shoes.
Do you think it possible for these blood-drunk ruffians to roam the Mohawk and Sacandaga valleys and respect you and yours just because you say you are neutral? Turn loose a pack of famished panthers in a common pasture and mark your sheep with your device and see how many are alive at daybreak!" "Dammy, sir!" cried Sir Lupus, "the enemy are led by British gentlemen."
"Who saw such things?" he asked, hoarsely. "Christian Schell, of Stoner's scout." "Now God curse them if they lift an arm to harm a Tryon County man!" he burst out. "I'll not believe it of the British gentlemen who differ with us over taxing tea! No, dammy if I'll credit such a monstrous thing as this alliance!"
Her happiness was more important than Grumper's pleasure. "Yes," acquiesced Lucille, "but tell him on Monday morning when you go. Let's have this all to ourselves, darling, just for a few hours. I believe he'll be jolly glad. Dear old bear, isn't he really." In the middle of the avenue Lucille stopped. "Dammy, my son," quoth she, "tell me the absolute, bare, bald truth.
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