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Gaylord's brow and the drops from his shabby black coat. "There's no use gettin' mad at Austen. He's dead right you can't lobby this thing through, and you knew it before you started. If you hadn't lost your temper, you wouldn't have tried." "We'll see, by G-d, we'll see," said the indomitable old Tom, when he got his breath.
He strolled leisurely out from his dinner table, picking his teeth with his penknife in the comfortable, self-satisfied way of a coarse man who has just filled his stomach to his entire content an attitude and an air that was simply maddening to the famishing wretches, of whom he inquired tantalizingly: "Air ye're hungry enough to give up them G-d d d s s of b s yet?"
In an instant the others were on top of him shouting, swearing, their passion roused to such a pitch of frenzy that they were like wolves that had run down their prey. "Give me that," yelled Lapoulle, "or by G-d I'll kill you!" And he had raised his fist again when Chouteau, taking from his pocket the penknife with which he had slaughtered the horse and opening it, placed it in his hand.
I have heard the latter say, "d it, Sir, why do you not ride and head the hounds?" and he has frequently observed to me, and other sportsmen, "By G-d, that d d Parson stuffs himself so at master's table, that he is got as lazy as a cur." I therefore did not fail to give this reverend sporting witness a pretty severe cross- examination, although the Baron tried hard to protect him.
I don't believe there's a soul on the island but thinks as much of me as Luita herself does; and, by G-d! she's a pearl even though she is only a native girl. No, I'll stay here; 'Kapeni Paranili' will always be a big man in the Paumotus, but Fred Brantley would be nobody in Sydney only a common merchant skipper who had made money in the islands.... And perhaps Doris is married."
But I ain't a dog neither, and I mounted that horse, gentlemen, and lit out to where the men were formin'! I didn't dare to speak, lest they should know me, but I waved my sword, and by G-d! they followed me! And the next minit we was in the thick of it.
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