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It's your task to make Vard Waymouth see that he ought to stand. You can do it. Begin with him where you left off." Harlan hesitated. "Well?" inquired the Duke, a bit petulantly. "I've been used to talking straight out to you, grandfather. I'm willing to help as far as it's in my poor power. But I want you to tell me that I'm not being used as a decoy-duck in this thing."
She had sent for this son of hers, hoping he might be a decoy-duck to draw Hartledon home again, for she was losing heart; and the accident, which she had not bargained for, was a very god-send to her. "Why don't you word your telegrams more clearly, Hedges?" asked Lord Hartledon of his butler. "It wasn't me worded it at all, my lord. Lady Kirton went to the station herself.
But if he has brought you, or any one, I say not whom, into this scrape, with the hope of doing any good, he's a d d decoy-duck, and that's all I can say for him; and you are geese, which is worse than being decoy-ducks, or lame-ducks either. And so here is to the prosperity of King George the Third, and the true Presbyterian religion, and confusion to the Pope, the Devil, and the Pretender!
But the Lord knows I wasn't casting any aspersions on his nerve. He must have taken it that way, though; for he went out when we did and hooked up, and when we drove down to where the little old scow they called a ferry was bobbing like a decoy-duck in the water, he was just behind us with his team.
They do not all take fees from both parties in a suit; nor extort more than their right; nor go prying about into other people's business in order to entangle them in the webs of the law; nor league with the justice to fleece one side and skin the other. It is not every alguazil that is in collusion with thieves and vagabonds, or keeps a decoy-duck in the shape of a mistress, as your master did.
"A great deal, sir; he is very often with my master at his rooms, but they never go out together. They have had a great deal of privacy lately; something new is afoot." "The man is a sort of decoy-duck, I fancy?" "Yes; what the gamblers call a capper, or roper-in." "Well, Henry, I think I won't detain you longer now.
Jarro cried pitifully; and the boy who had freed him said quietly to Caesar: "If you are just as honourable as you look, surely you cannot wish to force a good bird to sit here and entice others into trouble." When Caesar heard these words, he grinned viciously with his upper lip, but the next second he dropped Jarro. "Fly, Jarro!" said he. "You are certainly too good to be a decoy-duck.
"If your Excellency wish them to live, they live their life and death are in the power of a word," said Pearson. "Enfranchise them; I must gain the Presbyterian interest over to us if I can." "Rochecliffe, the arch-plotter," said Pearson, "I thought to have executed, but" "Barbarous man," said Cromwell, "alike ungrateful and impolitic wouldst thou have destroyed our decoy-duck?
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