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Well, he called at the inn next day, and if the doctor was not just gone back to London! Alfred wandered disconsolate homewards. In the middle of Buchanan Street, an agitated treble called after him, "Mr. Halfred! hoh, Mr. Halfred!" He looked back and saw Dick Absalom, a promising young cricketer, brandishing a document and imploring aid. "Oh, Master Halfred, dooce please come here.
As a matter of fact," he proceeded to explain, "I rushed round here that is we both did, but I've got here first, to tell you that Oh, dooce take me!" and out came the Marquis's eyeglass. "Positively you must excuse me, my dear Beverley. Thought I knew 'em all, but no damme if I ever saw the fellow to yours! Permit me!"
I was quietly sitting in my state-room, awaiting the departure of the steamer, when a tremendous racket on the cabin steps, followed by a rush of feet up and down the saloon, startled me out of a pleasant home-dream. "Hello! What the devil! I say! Where's every body! Stoord! Blast the fellow! Here, Bowser! What'r ye abeaout! Ho there! Where the dooce are our berths? By Jove! Ha! ha!
Curse and confound it, wherefore the pity? Our youth is a perfect ass, an infernal young fish, a puppy-dog pah!" "Egad, Julia did the talking for him " "Ha, yes dooce take me, she did so!" exclaimed uncle George. "What an amazingly magnificent creature she is " "And did ye mark our youth's cool insolence, his disdainful airs the cock of his supercilious nose curst young puppy!"
The last passage was in his own native tongue and Bosambo beamed. "Yes, sah!" said he in the English of the Coast. "I be Bosambo, good chap, fine chap; you, sah, you look um you see um Bosambo!" He slapped his chest and Bones unbent. "Look here, old sport," he said affably: "what the dooce is all this shindy about hey?"
How the dooce I could ever have gone and taken Hilda Tregellis's advice on a political question is really more than I can fathom: and at my time of life too! And yet, all the same, there's no denying that she's a devilish fine woman, by Jove, if ever there was one.
"We've recommended Prout to let you go back to your study." "The dooce you have! And who under the sun are you to interfere between us and our house-master? Upon my Sam, you two try us very hard you do, indeed. Of course we don't know how far you abuse your position to prejudice us with Mr.
For that matter, so great a gap separates these ape-men from the primitive animals which have survived upon this plateau, that it is inadmissible to think that they could have developed where we find them." "Then where the dooce did they drop from?" asked Lord John. "A question which will, no doubt, be eagerly discussed in every scientific society in Europe and America," the Professor answered.
If you think you can back him he's yours for what you like. Come, what's the word?" "Emphatically no, my dear, good Sling," laughed the young Corinthian, shaking his curly head. "I don't mean to risk this most precious neck of mine until the fifteenth, dear fellow, dooce take me if I do!" "Why then, b'gad! I'll sell him to any one fool enough to bid.
Nothing could show a more deplorable ignorance of the world than poor Newcome supposing his son could make such a match as that with his cousin. Is it true that he is going to make his son an artist? I don't know what the dooce the world is coming to. An artist! By gad, in my time a fellow would as soon have thought of making his son a hairdresser, or a pastrycook, by gad."
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