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"Verses are all very well," the elder Pendennis said, who found Pen scratching down one of these artless effusions at the Club as he was waiting for his dinner; "and letter-writing if mamma allows it, and between such old country friends of course there may be a correspondence, and that sort of thing but mind, Pen, and don't commit yourself, my boy. For who knows what the doose may happen?
"To be parted from you," said the old Major, with a sneer; "you know she won't live with you again." "But why can't Lady C. live abroad, or at Bath, or at Tunbridge, or at the doose, and I go on here?" Clavering continued. "I like being here better than abroad, and I like being in Parliament. It's dev'lish convenient being in Parliament.
None but my own fellows understand a cork, and they seem to have got away somewhere. What the doose are they about why, halloa, Darling! What's the meaning of all this, at such a time?" "Well, my lord, you must judge for yourself," said the Admiral, who had made his way quietly from the bottom of the table. "We know that false alarms are plentiful.
My own belief is that they will be worked up to a sort of frenzy, compared to which those two parties in Dante ... you know which I mean?..." "Paolo and Francesca?" Mr. Pellew thought to himself how well enformed Miss Dickenson was. He said aloud: "Yes, them. Paolo and Francesca would be quite lukewarm sort of negus! compared to our young friends. Correspondence is the doose.
"Took me a doose of a time to get him to see it, but I think he has got it at last," they used to say. The case looked like lasting for years, for there would be appeals and counter-appeals, references, inquiries and what not; and in getting ready for the first fight the lawyers on each side worked like beavers.
"Who the doose reads this kind of thing?" he thought to himself, when he heard of the bargain which Pen had made. "I never read your novels and rubbish. Except Paul de Kock, who certainly makes me laugh, I don't think I've looked into a book of the sort these thirty years. 'Gad! Pen's a lucky fellow. I should think he might write one of these in a month now say a month that's twelve in a year.
"Verses are all very well," the elder Pendennis said, who found Pen scratching down one of these artless effusions at the Club as he was waiting for his dinner; "and letter-writing if mamma allows it, and between such old country friends of course there may be a correspondence, and that sort of thing but mind, Pen, and don't commit yourself, my boy. For who knows what the doose may happen?
"I say, Strong," one day the Baronet said, as the pair were conversing after dinner over the billiard-table, and that great unbosomer of secrets, a cigar; "I say, Strong, I wish to the doose your wife was dead." "So do I. That's a cannon, by Jove. But she won't; she'll live for ever you see if she don't. Why do you wish her off the hooks, Frank, my boy?" asked Captain Strong.
"An' I can't say as yer looks is any credit to Frampton no, that aa can't." John, indeed, wore a sallow and pinched air, and walked lamely, with a stick. "Noa," he said peevishly; "it's a beastly place is Frampton; a damp, nassty hole as iver I saw gives yer the rheumaticks to look at it. I've 'ad a doose of a time, I 'ave, I can tell yer iver sense I went. But I'll pull up now."
And as he spoke, flinging himself into an absurd theatrical attitude, the men in the cab-stand in Piccadilly wondered and grinned at the antics of the two young swells. "What the doose are you driving at?" Foker asked, looking very much agitated. Pen, however, did not remark this agitation much, but continued in the same bantering and excited vein.
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