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He wagged his head when Bosambo had finished his recital, did this general of twenty-one. "You're a jolly old sportsman, Bosambo," he said very seriously, "and you're in the dooce of a hole, if you only knew it. But you trust old Bones he'll see you through. By Gad!" Bosambo, bewildered but resourceful, hearing, without understanding, replied: "I be fine feller, sah!"
"Then I shall be devilish sorry to have to beat you, Sling, my boy!" drawled the Marquis, "yes, doocid sorry, still " "Eh what? Beat the 'Rascal, Jerny? Not on your weedy 'Clinker, b'gad " "Oh, but dooce take me, Sling, you'd never say the 'Rascal' was the better horse? Why, in the first place, there's too much daylight under him for your weight besides "
It's always: 'Simpson, where the dooce is my puttees? or 'Simpson, you've sewed this 'ere button on in the wrong place, or 'Simpson, the soup tastes like cocoa and the cocoa tastes like soup' does 'e expect me to kerry a bloomin' collection of canteens?
"Oh, yes. I'm all right. They wouldn't let me out before, but I had to come to the match. Your mouth looks pretty plummy." "Turkey trod on it accidental-done-a-purpose. Well, I'm glad you're better, because we owe you something. You and your membranes got us into a sweet mess, young man." "I heard of that," said the boy, giggling. "The Head told me." "Dooce he did! When?" "Oh, come on up to Coll.
"Well, upon my soul, Peregrine," exclaimed my uncle, removing his hat to ruffle his brown curls, "a precious pickle you look, b'gad! Where in the world what under heaven your breeches, Perry that unspeakable if only Julia could see you now. Oh, the dooce!" Such were his more or less coherent expressions as his astonished gaze took in the various items of my appearance.
She ought to have been a young girl instead of an elderly woman, if there was any propriety in the way her mistress spoke to her. It proved at least her own belief in the description she had given of her to Miss Lammie. 'Noo, Betty, ye maun be dooce. An' dinna stan' at the door i' the gloamin'. An' dinna stan' claikin' an' jawin' wi' the ither lasses whan ye gang to the wall for watter.
"He'd done pretty nearly everything he could think of, except strikin' coins in his own image and superscription, all under cover of buildin' this infernal road and bein' blocked by the snow. His report was simply amazin'. Von Lennaert tore his hair over it at first, and then he gasped, 'Who the dooce is this unknown Warren Hastings? He must be slain. He must be slain officially!
Their eyes met, curiously interlocked for a moment. Sir George wondered to himself where the dooce he had seen that, type of face before, those grey eyes with the dark lashes. "Gad! he reminds me of Kitty Warren!
"This is M'gani," he said, "he who walks in the night." "The dooce it is!" said Bones, and fixing his monocle glared at the stranger. "From whence do you come?" he asked. "Lord, I come from the Coast," said the man, "by many strange ways, desiring to arrive at this land secretly that I might learn the heart of these people and understand."
"I don't want any book to teach me what to do with a feller that calls me a liar. I'll go you one game of picquet, for nuts." "You're on," said Hamilton. "My nuts I think, sir." Bones carefully counted the heap which his superior had pushed over, "And hullo! what the dooce do you want?" Hamilton followed the direction of the other's eyes.
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