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Dearman was a dooced fine woman and the Brigade-Major might say that he said so, damme. As the General's infatuation increased he told everybody else also everybody except Colonel Dearman who, of course, knew it already. He even told Jobler, his soldier-servant, promoted butler, as that sympathetic and admiring functionary endeavoured to induce him to go to bed without his uniform.
I had really no idea that a bohemian could be so much like a gentleman; but, of course, an Aylwin must always be an Aylwin. 'Haw, haw! laughed Sleaford to himself, 'that's good about Cyril Aylwin though that's dooced good.
Seems dooced small unless it's my eyes, George ha ha!" So he blundered in and heavily up the stair, and after knocking thunderously, entered. At sight of my uncle Jervas, he halted, drew himself very erect and bowed profoundly and with a flourish, and when he spoke his speech was so thick that I dreaded lest he hiccough: "Your servant, S' Jervas! Hope I see y' well, sir?"
"By Jove, that was dooced awkward of me yes, I beg your pardon, I'm sure. Should have looked where I was going what? said Romeo. "Not at all," answered Nickie politely. "My fault in blocking the path. My fault, entirely." "By Jo-o-ve!" gasped Romeo; "that's a stunnin' make-up, old chap what? Nevah saw a bettah, by gad." "Make-up?" said Nicholas. Mr. Crips had for gotten his false nose.
"And when she does, she she don't!" added uncle George. "Last time I ventured to call, she looked over me, and under me, and round me, and through me but never at me. Dooced trying y' know, Perry!" "And most disappointing!" said I. "My dream that you one of you might comfort her "
He had ridden in the Balaclava charge, was a favourite everywhere, and, albeit no genius, was much cleverer than his friend and school-fellow, George Kirkbank. They had been at Eton together, had both made love to the lively Georgie, and had been inseparables for the last thirty years. 'Couldn't get on without Delville, said Sir George; 'dooced smart fellow, sir.
But this was a part, and only a very trifling part, of the punishment which she felt that she deserved. If that, and things like that, were all, she would bear them without a murmur. "Now I call Dovercourt a dooced nice little place," said Mr. Parker, as he helped her to the "bit of fish," which he told her he had brought down with him from London. "It is very healthy, I should think."
"It seems to me you are all cool enough here." "Just what Sir Thomas de Boots said, sir," says Barnes, turning round to his father. "Don't you remember when he came home from Bombay? I recollect his saying, at Lady Featherstone's, one dooced hot night, as it seemed to us; I recklect his saying that he felt quite cold. Did you know him in India, Colonel Newcome?
The papers, with thare usuil fidelity to fax, had stated that the entertainment would consist only of a lectoor, & that the kangaroo & wax-figgers would not be introdooced "dooced queer," thinks I, and I soon discovered the telegram; for Mr. Ward used a number of figgers of speech.
"Most glorious eyes in Christendom," continued my uncle George, "always make me feel so dooced er so curst humble no, humble's not quite the word; what I do mean is " "Fatuous, George?" suggested Uncle Jervas a trifle impatiently. "Unworthy yes, unworthy and er altogether dooced, d'ye see her whole life one of exemplary self-sacrifice and so forth, d'ye see, Jervas " "Exactly, George!
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