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"Because," said Bart, excited by his effort and danger, "because to myself I staked all my future on reaching you in that old hulk, and I won. Had it sunk, I had made up my mind to go with her, and, like Mr. Mantalini, in Dickens's last novel, 'become a body, a demnition moist unpleasant body."
"I should prefer being thrown to the demnition ducks and drakes," he said moodily. "You're such a miserable man," she chided him, "and yet you have everything to make life worth living." "Ha, ha!" said T. X. "You have, of course you have! You have a splendid position. Everybody looks up to you and talks about you. You have got a wife and family who adore you "
His neck was saved for the halter, but he got some painful and slow-healing injury for his trouble? Did he? You must have heard that, at least. 'No, rejoined Mantalini, shaking his head again. 'Unless he was dashed into such little pieces that they blew away, he wasn't hurt, for he went off as quiet and comfortable as as as demnition, said Mr Mantalini, rather at a loss for a simile.
'It shall be brought round in any way it likes best, and not brought round at all if it likes that better, retorted Mr Mantalini, with his egg-spoon in his mouth. 'It's very easy to talk, said Mrs Mantalini. 'Not so easy when one is eating a demnition egg, replied Mr Mantalini; 'for the yolk runs down the waistcoat, and yolk of egg does not match any waistcoat but a yellow waistcoat, demmit.
Who but a man diverted from the paths of honest feeling and natural enjoyment, possessed of a demoniac mania, lost to the peace and serenity of the virtuous and the blessed, could find pleasure amid the damps, and dews, and chills, and raw-edgedness of a garden in the early morning, absolutely find pleasure in saturated trousers, in shoes swathed in moisture, in skies that are gray and gloomy, in flowers that are, as Mantalini would put it, 'demnition moist'? The thing is incredible!
'Then you are most immensely and outr-i-geously deaf, said Mr Mantalini, 'as deaf as a demnition post. Mr Mantalini had got by this time into the passage, and was making his way to the door of Ralph's office with very little ceremony, when Newman interposed his body; and hinting that Mr Nickleby was unwilling to be disturbed, inquired whether the client's business was of a pressing nature.
The thorough Pessimist believes the world is going in hot haste to the demnition bowwows, and that nothing short of a miracle can head it off; the full-fledged Optimist carries concealed about his person an abiding faith that "God ordereth all things well" that he not only designed the mighty universe, but is giving his personal attention to the details of its management.
The hypochondriac conceives that everything is going to the "demnition bow-wows." Nothing can reassure him. He sees in every article of diet a hidden fiend of dyspepsia; in every drink a demon of torture. Every man he meets is a scoundrel, and every woman a leech. Children are growing worse daily, and society is "rotten."
They exhibited comparative sang froid, and served as spokesmen for the others. "Bah Jove!" exclaimed one of them, "but you're welcome, you know! This has been a demnition close call! But what kind of a craft have you got out there?" "I'm Cosmo Versal." "Then that's the Ark we've heard about! 'Pon honor, I should have recognized you, for I've seen your picture often enough.
They do not appear to dislike the "demnition grind," which lasts but an hour twice a day; they go without reluctance to the tramp that leads nowhere, and the futile journey which would seem foolish to anything wiser than a sheep. This sheep-power is one of the curios of the place.
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