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More things have happened within the last thirty-six hours than in the preceding six months. Yes, its so indeed, squire, returned the steward Ive known a smart chase, and a fight at the tail of it, where less has been logged than Ive got on that there slate. Howsomnever, they didnt come to facers, only passed a little jaw fore and aft.
You have not been moping, I hope." "Moping! Not a bit of it," replied Kavanagh. "I am not going to cry `I take a licking! because Fortune has caught me a couple of facers without a return. I have been to the theatre, and enjoyed myself vastly, I assure you." "To the theatre! You; in that dress!" exclaimed Royce. "Oh, I went to the gallery. I have accepted the situation."
The officers went at him incautiously, and the head detective, as he rushed forward, received a heavy blow on the neck and jaw that sounded along the street, and sent him rolling in the mud; this was followed by a quick succession of staggering facers, administered right and left on the eyes and noses of the subordinates.
Take it on a question of foreign affairs, it 's an alderman after a feast. Bring it upon home politics, you meet a wolf. The faithful Whig veteran spoke with jolly admiration of the speech of a famous Tory chief. 'That was the way to talk to them! Denounce them traitors! Up whip, and set the ruffians capering! Hit them facers! Our men are always for the too-clever trick.
The insurrection spread, the turf flew more thickly; his subjects closed in upon him in a more compact body; every little fist itched to be at him; the larger boys boldly laid in the facers, punched him in the stomach, I treated him most opprobriously behind, every kick and cuff accompanied by a memento of his cruelty; in short, they compelled him, like Charles the Tenth, ignominiously to fly from his dominions.
There have been times when I have administered a succession of facers to them; there have been times when they have been too many for me, and I have given in, and said to Mrs. Micawber, in the words of Cato, "Plato, thou reasonest well. It's all up now. I can show fight no more." But at no time of my life, said Mr. Mr. Micawber closed this handsome tribute by saying, 'Mr. Heep! Good evening. Mrs.
Take it on a question of foreign affairs, it 's an alderman after a feast. Bring it upon home politics, you meet a wolf. The faithful Whig veteran spoke with jolly admiration of the speech of a famous Tory chief. 'That was the way to talk to them! Denounce them traitors! Up whip, and set the ruffians capering! Hit them facers! Our men are always for the too-clever trick.
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