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"That's all right then," echoed Captain Dresser in his joking way; adding to the young officer on his other side, "I wonder if all the `cocked hats' have done examining the gun, and whether there's a chance now for an old retired fogey like myself having a look at the damage?" "I should think so, sir," replied the young officer.
Lilian sat with bent head. Casting a quick glance at her, Quarrier talked on in a cheerful strain. "I'm afraid he isn't likely to get in. The present member is an old fogey called Welwyn-Baker; a fat-headed Tory; this is his third Parliament. They think he's going to set up his son next time a fool, no doubt, but I have no knowledge of him. I'm afraid Liversedge isn't the man to stir enthusiasm."
Ah me, thirty years and more have passed since then; and I'm an old fogey, while he's just beginning life! I hope, my dear Jack, you'll never do anything to make you ashamed of having put on the Queen's livery!" "That I won't, Dad," said I emphatically; and I meant it! "I'll try to follow your example, and always recollect I am your son."
And, by the way, why in Heaven's name 'a prismatic compass'? I fingered a few magazines, played a game of fifty with a friendly old fogey, too importunate to be worth the labour of resisting, and went back to my chambers to bed, ignorant that a friendly Providence had come to my rescue; and, indeed, rather resenting any clumsy attempt at such friendliness. 2 The 'Dulcibella'
Fogey, then in the fifth form at Eton, and ardently expecting his beard and his commission in a dragoon regiment, was the second partner who was honoured with Miss Bell's hand. He was rapt in admiration of that young lady. He thought he had never seen so charming a creature.
I shall never be anything but an old fogey, but a little change and knocking about may make me a more agreeable one." The scientific meetings at New York served as a plausible excuse for his going, and the Foresters kept his secret. Marjory felt as if she were living in a dream, such impossible things seemed to be happening. Could it be true that she was going to London, and her uncle to New York?
"You don't seem to have faith in my business engagements, Miss Rose; but I assure you that Harry and I deserve great credit for having carried on the business so successfully for the last three months." "Where is Mr Gilchrist?" asked Arthur. "Oh, he's here, there, and everywhere. But Mr Gilchrist is an `old fogey, and he has not helped but hindered matters, now and then.
It's no good in looking an old fogey, if you aren't one; it's no earthly use" standing before a glass and ruefully examining his countenance "in looking fifty if you are only thirty-four. It will be a scandal," says the professor mournfully. "They'll cut her, and they'll cut me, and what the deuce did Wynter mean by leaving me his daughter? A real live girl of seventeen!
All that was eminent in European surgery addressed him in the person of that harmless and unassuming fogey whose hands had been inside the bodies of hundreds of living men; but the lily-white corpse of an obscure country-girl chilled the interest of discourse with such a king of operators. Reaching the drawing-room he talked to his hostess.
It is five o'clock, the noon in Pall Mall. "Here's little Newcome coming," says Mr. Horace Fogey. "He and the muffin-man generally make their appearance in public together." "Dashed little prig," says Sir Thomas de Boots, "why the dash did they ever let him in here? If I hadn't been in India, by dash he should have been blackballed twenty times over, by dash."
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