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Updated: June 26, 2025
The exciseman was disposed to try bluster; but bluster does not always win a trick in the game, more especially when the ace of trumps, in the shape of a pistol, is held by the adversary.
"'I were chilled and lit it, says he to the landlord. 'You don't mind? "Mind? Who would have ventur'd to cross Dark Dignum's fancies? "He give a boisterous laugh, and ordered in a double noggin of humming stuff. "'Here, he says, when it comes, 'is to the health of Exciseman Jones, that swore to bring me to the ground. "'To the ground, mutters a thick voice from the chimney.
She had long entertained hopes of seeing her eldest daughter succeed Mrs Slipslop, and of making her second son an exciseman by Lady Booby's interest. These were expectations she could not endure the thoughts of quitting, and was, therefore, very uneasy to see her husband so resolute to oppose the lady's intention in Fanny's affair.
"No," said another; "don't you see he is striking higher up towards the old ford, where the stepping-stones are!" "He is he is," cried the blacksmith. "Run on run on; don't you see he is crossing it now? Tell me, all of you, are you quite sure he is a vampyre, and no mistake? He ain't the exciseman, landlord, now, is he?" "The exciseman, the devil! Do you think I want to shoot the exciseman?"
The pedlar, besides several handsome presents, both from Mr Wilson and Mr Booby, is, by the latter's interest, made an exciseman; a trust which he discharges with such justice, that he is greatly beloved in his neighbourhood.
For these alone they were compiled, as will appear from a brief narrative which my zeal for truth compelled me to make supplementary to the present Proem. It is well known that my Landlord was a pleasing and a facetious man, acceptable unto all the parish of Gandercleugh, excepting only the Laird, the Exciseman, and those for whom he refused to draw liquor upon trust.
My aunt spoilt me, Monsieur le Curé was excessively fond of me, I had all my wishes. All the ladies in the neighbourhood spoke to me civilly, the Collector's wife, the lawyer's wife, the Mayoress, the wife of the exciseman, they all, in short, made much of me. Mademoiselle Veronica here! Mademoiselle Veronica there! I had my place in the gallery.
Again appointed an exciseman, he was stationed at Lewes in Sussex, where he wrote poetry and acquired some local celebrity as a writer. He was accordingly selected by his brother excisemen to prepare their petition to Government for an increase of pay, * the document which he drew up procuring him introductions to Goldsmith and Franklin, and dismissal from his post.
They played their game of death in silence the lawful, cold and unfathomable; the unlawful, swaggerin' and crool and twenty year separated the first move and the last. "This were the first, sir as Dark Dignum leaked it out long after in his cups. This were the first; and it brought Exciseman Jones to his grave on the cliff here.
The time between this event and dinner I passed in observing a game at cards between two farmers, an exciseman, and a young fellow in a rusty gown and cassock, who, as I afterwards understood, was curate of a neighbouring parish.
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