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'See there, lass! bawled the countryman, pointing towards the object of his admiration. 'There be Paul's Church. 'Ecod, he be a soizable 'un, he be. 'Goodness, John! I shouldn't have thought it could have been half the size. What a monster! 'Monsther!
The wicked," he took pains to explain, "knows the dear Lard's love. An', somehow, I isn't feelin' it as I should. An' I wisht I'd sinned a wee bit more." Still the wind called to him. "Ecod!" he cried, impatiently, his hand moving feebly to tweak his nose, but failing by the way. "There I been an' gone an' made another mistake! Sure, 'tis awful!
"Every man for himself. Besides, Mr. Love was dancing," replied Mr. Birnie, with a dull glance of disdain. "Philosophy," muttered Gawtrey, thrusting his dresscoat into his trunk; then, suddenly changing his voice, "Ha! ha! it was a very good joke after all own I did it well. Ecod! if he had not given me that look, I think I should have turned the tables on him.
"Wot," growled one, pausing, the better to spit in passionate disgust, "put the 'orses to the phaeton, must I? And at this time o' night an' all for a couple o' light country Molls as is afeard to foot it 'ome in the dark, curse 'em!" "She ain't no country Moll, Ben, leastways not 'er as I see a reg'lar 'igh-stepper all the lady, Ben such eyes, ecod such a shape to 'er, Ben "
Ecod, that's a good one Marry Madge Wildfire! Ha! ha! ha!" "Hark ye, ye crack-rope padder, born beggar, and bred thief!" replied the hag, "suppose he never marries the wench, is that a reason he should marry another, and that other to hold my daughter's place, and she crazed, and I a beggar, and all along of him?
"His Majesty's Government cannot be sufficiently congratulated," said Mr. Caryll, the irrepressible. Mr. Green banged the table. "Are ye rallying me, ecod!" "You have upset the ink," Mr. Caryll pointed out to him. "Damn the ink!" swore the spy. "And damn you for a Tom o' Bedlam! I ask you again what d'ye mean, giving me this rubbish?" "You asked me to turn out my pockets."
Come away, sir!" "Not so fast! Not so fast, ecod!" It was another voice that broke in upon them. Rotherby started round. Gaskell, in the shadows of the cowled fireplace jumped in sheer alarm. All stared at the window whence the voice proceeded. They beheld a plump, chubby-faced little man, astride the sill, a pistol displayed with ostentation in his hand. Mr.
"The barn would be the very place," suggested the landlord, bustling eagerly forward and wiping his hands on his apron, "the very place plenty of room and nice and soft to fall on. If you would only put off your fightin' till to-morrow, we might cry it through the villages; 'twould be a big draw. Ecod! we might make a purse o' twenty pound if you only would! Think it over think it over."
Ecod! the people of this country are sharp enough to find out your meaning, when you want to spend anything among them; and, as for the matter of dress, bodikins! for a thousand pound, I would engage to live in the midst of them, and show myself without any clothes at all.
He was standing with his arms folded, staring up at the balloon, and every now and then vented his feelings of reverence for the aëronaut, by saying, as he looked round to catch somebody’s eye, ‘He’s a rum ’un is Green; think o’ this here being up’ards of his two hundredth ascent; ecod, the man as is ekal to Green never had the toothache yet, nor won’t have within this hundred year, and that’s all about it.
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