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This leaked out somehow, and there was the deuce's own barney over it. When some of the Parliament men and them sort of coves in the country that never forgives anybody heard of it they began to buck, and no mistake.

If need be to speak, I never shall have, I hope, any secrets from you. I have not said much about one which has given me the deuce's disquiet for ten months past, because there was no good in talking about it, or vexing you needlessly with reports of my griefs and woes.

I have seen it happen so often in India, don't you know, where fellows run amuck and kick up the deuce's own delight. I am bound to admit that I have been watching Mr. Baxter rather closely lately in the expectation that something of this very kind might happen. "Of course I now realize my mistake; and I have apologized apologized humbly dash it!

To control them is notoriously the deuce's own delight, and old Nick's relish for it must grow in proportion as they become more and more corporate. As Mr. Norbury said and we do not feel that we can add to the force of his words her young ladyship had not took proper account of tempers.

It gave Angioletto the deuce's own time now and then; but he might yet have weathered the rocks for his tact was only equalled by his good temper if the Countess had not precipitated matters. There came a day, and an hour of a day, when she spoke to him. She had spoken before; her ambitions had always been verbal but now they were literal, all the "t's" were crossed.

And here, it seems, he was close up with this island on the sixth, sails all these days, and is close up with it again by daylight on the eleventh." "Goddedaal said they had the deuce's luck," said Carthew. "Well, it don't look like real life that's all I can say," returned Wicks. "It's the way it was, though," argued Carthew.

At once, blind to all else, and goaded intolerably by his knowledge that the time was short if he were to forestall November at the asylum in Oscahana, he pelted hot-foot after the delinquent; came up with him in a trice; tapped him smartly on the shoulder. "Here!" he cried indignantly "what the deuce's the matter with you?"

By latest accounts, they're sleeping it off and I say, waiter, you might tell the cook to devil those kidneys." "But hasn't Captain Suckling returned yet?" I ventured to ask. "He hasn't," said Mr. Strangways. "The deuce knows where he is, and the first lieutenant, not being in the deuce's confidence, is working himself into the deuce of a sweat.

"Well, I intended to come before," confessed Miss Greeby candidly. "Only, one thing and another prevented me!" Agnes noticed that she did not specify the hindrances. "It was the deuce's own job to get that letter. Oh, by the way, I suppose Lambert told you about the letter?" "Mr. Silver told me about it, and I told Noel," responded Agnes gravely. "I also heard about your interview with "

As usual, to Deuce's never-failing surprise and disgust, the birds had proved themselves most uncultivated and rude persons by hopping promptly into trees instead of lying to point and then flushing as a well-taught partridge should. I had refused to pull pistol on them. Deuce's heart was broken.