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The artless mark of kindness and confidence touched and pleased her; and Rawdon, encouraged by this demonstration on his sister's part, twirled up his mustachios and took leave to salute Lady Jane with a kiss, which caused her Ladyship to blush exceedingly. "Dev'lish nice little woman, Lady Jane," was his verdict, when he and his wife were together again.
There's very few seats like mine left; and if I gave it to 'em, I should not wonder the ministry would give me an island to govern, or some dev'lish good thing; for you know I'm a gentleman of dev'lish good family, and have a handle to my name, and and that sort of thing, Major Pendennis. Eh, don't you see? Don't you think they'd give me something dev'lish good if I was to play my cards well?
In her griefs, in her rages, in the pains and anguish of wrong and desertion, how a woman remembers to smile, curtsey, caress, dissemble! He passes on, and thinks that woman was rather pleased with what I said. "That joke I made was rather neat. I do really think Lady Maria looks rather favourably at me, and she's a dev'lish fine woman, begad she is!" O you wiseacre!
"D' you shay 'home, Toffski? Haven't you got any uzzer place t' go? Wen a man'sh r'duced t' th' 'str hic remity 'f goin' home, must be in dev'lish hard luck." "Der vhy 've go home," said Bludoffski, "is dot I somedings haf I show you." "Ah. I shee. Za's diff'rent zing. You're goin' t'show me some-'zin', eh?" "Yah." "Picshur? Hope 'taint pichshur, Koffski.
Begad, you look dev'lish well and healthy, sir. I always said my brother Jack would bring the family right. You must go down into the west, and buy the old estate, sir. Nec tenui penna, hey? We'll rise again, sir rise again on the wing and, begad, I shouldn't be surprised that you will be a Baronet before you die." His words smote Pen.
Well, as far as Bury Street, where he would laughingly shake hands on the Major's own door-step. They had been talking about Laura all the way. It was wonderful how enthusiastic the Major, who, as we know, used to dislike her, had grown to be regarding the young lady "Dev'lish fine girl, begad.
"It's you who are cruel to him," said the old moralist. "Why, sir, you'll ruin him yourself inevitably in three years." "Yes, but perhaps I won't have such dev'lish bad luck, you know; the luck must turn: and I'll reform, by Gad, I'll reform. And if you were to split on me, it would cut up my wife so; you know it would, most infernally."
"Dev'lish old old enough to be his grandmother; I told him so," Archer answered at once. "But those attachments for old women are the deuce and all. That's what the King feels: that's what shocks the poor Queen so much. They went away from Paris last Tuesday night, and are living at this present moment at Jaunay's Hotel." "Has there been a private marriage, Archer?" asked Warrington.
"He told me a story, sir, which gave me the deepest surprise and pain," said Pen. The Major tried to look unconcerned. "What that story about about What-d'-you-call-'em, hey?" "About Miss Amory's father about Lady Clavering's first husband, and who he is, and what." "Hem a dev'lish awkward affair!" said the old man, rubbing his nose.
Brixham, "I know it to my cost. I borrowed from him a little money five years ago; and though I have paid him many times over, I am entirely in his power. I am ruined by him, sir. Everything I had is his. He's a dreadful man." "Eh, Mrs. Brixham? tout pis dev'lish sorry for you, and that I must quit your house after lodging here so long: there's no help for it. I must go."
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