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I want no pens or paper, not knowing the use of either; and I keep none. No, no, Ill bring the scalps into the village, squire, and you can make out the order on one of your law-books, and it will he all the better for it. The deuce take this leather on the neck of the dog, it will strangle the old fool. Can you lend me a knife, squire?
She assumed a sulky air, invented a thousand excuses, and finally declared that perhaps it would look odd. "Well, what the deuce do I care for that?" said Charles, making a pirouette. "Health before everything! You are wrong." "And how do you think I can ride when I haven't got a habit?" "You must order one," he answered. The riding-habit decided her.
They rushed to their companion, expecting to find him reduced to pulp; but they found him safe and sound, laughing heartily, while the conductor, with clasped hands, was exclaiming: "Monsieur, I swear there were no balls; monsieur, I protest, they were only charged with powder." "The deuce," said the young man, "don't I see that? But the intention was good, wasn't it, my little Edouard?"
If first one side, then the other, obtains one of these points the score will be "vantage in" or "out," as the case may be, and then "deuce" again, until finally when two points clear are made it is "game." A set of tennis consists in winning six games, but in this case also there is a peculiar condition.
He then darted eagerly toward the door, determined to have an explanation, but was met by Josh., who said: "You have done something that has raised the d l in Mrs. Maroney, and she will play the deuce with you if you don't clear out. If you try to speak to her, she will pistol you, sure!" "But what have I done?" asked De Forest.
'Ah! she sighed, walking on, with the step of majesty in exile. 'What the deuce is the matter with everybody to-day? cried Harry. 'I 'm hanged if I can make it out.
You see, the hands in those big mills we have in Elkington sprang a surprise on the machine, and the first thing I knew I was nominated for the legislature. A committee came to my boarding-house and told me, and there was the deuce to pay, right off.
She was handsome, but her beauty was of that forbidding, sinister order which is often called Junoesque. This woman was the centre of attraction. People said to each other that she had won a hundred and sixty thousand francs that day at the table. 'You were right, Prince Aribert whispered to Theodore Racksole; 'that is the Berlin lady. 'The deuce she is! Has she seen you? Will she know you?
"Yes." "What part of the wall?" cried a voice from behind us. My mother screamed, and down came my father's pipe on to the hearthrug. I had sprung round with a catch of my breath, and there was the valet, Ambrose, his body in the shadow of the doorway, his dark face protruded into the light, and two burning eyes fixed upon mine. "What the deuce is the meaning of this, sir?" cried my uncle.
He calls himself 'England's honour; what the deuce England's honour has to do with tailoring, I can't tell you: perhaps Mr Moffat can. But mind you, my friends, I don't say anything against tailoring: some of you are tailors, I dare say." "Yes, we be," said a little squeaking voice from out of the crowd. "And a good trade it is.
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