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The truth is, I had expected to see a cousin german to Don Quixote; I had thought to detect signs and gleams of wildness, however slight something a little "off." One glance of that kindly and humorous eye told me such expectation had been nonsense. Odd he might have been Gadzooks! he looked it but "queer"? Never.
'It proves that your ladyship's stratagem, he said, 'was to the point last night. 'Oh, Dunborough will live to thank me for that! she answered. 'Gadzooks, he will! It is first come first served with these madams. This will open his eyes if anything will. 'Still it is to be hoped she will leave before he returns, Mr. Thomasson said, with a slight shiver of anticipation. He knew Mr.
He was always a trifler with women, though; and it was so delicious to have this tearful widow remove her veil and explain for gadzooks! had she not several times allowed the mercury to drop to zero for his benefit? And so she explained, and gradually it all came back to him very slowly and after cross-questioning and then he was so glad to see her.
"Gadzooks, man!" exclaimed the King, when he saw him, "I remember you well, a loyal, sturdy supporter of our cause. We have had so many loyal gentlemen applying for posts that we fear all have been filled up, but depend on it we will not forget you. Go back to Eversden, and wait with such patience as may be vouchsafed you.
Slap went the carrier's cap in the dirt! "Leave thee go wi' me? Gadzooks!" he cried, "my name be John Saddler why, what? my daddy liveth in Chapel lane, behind Will Underhill's. I stole thy father's apples fifteen years. What! go wi' me? Get on the wain, thou little fool get on all the wains I own, and a plague upon thine eightpence, lad!
"All the same, I dare you to ride out alone from King's Highway again," I defied. "For, if you do, and I find you " "Good-by, Mr. Carleton. You'd be splendid in vaudeville," she mocked from her saddle, where she had got with all the ease of a cowboy, without any help from me. "Black velvet mask and gadzooks, madam I must certainly tell Edith. It will amuse her, I'm sure."
But it might have been noticed that the farther she got away from the company and the nearer to the edge of the woods, the swifter and straighter grew her pace. Once inside the shelter of the forest she broke into a run of surprising swiftness. "Gadzooks!" exclaimed Little John who presently spied her. "Who comes here? Never saw I witch or woman run so fast.
The drama, which was full of "Gadzooks!" and the like, and Roundheads and Cavaliers, concerned Oliver Cromwell and Charles I., and included a plot to rescue the unhappy monarch on the scaffold, which was only frustrated by the direct intervention of "Old Noll," who, after a struggle, used the axe with his own hands. It had seven acts and thirty-three scenes.
"A soldier o' the legion lay dyin' in Algiers," chanted the captain, and with his shoulders back he strode into the wide world. A meal at the club, and gadzooks but his stomach was in arms! Not a bite since the last club meal. God bless the club! "Get a job?" repeated the captain to one of the members, "I would but the devil take it, how can a man go around asking for a job in a dress suit?
They were both dear, dear friends of mine." My Aunt Caroline's harsher voice interrupted her. "Gadzooks, ma'am!" she cried, as she approached us, "I have never in my life laid eyes upon such beauty as your daughter's. You will have to take her home, Mrs. Manners, to do her justice. You owe it her, ma'am. Come, nephew, off with you, and head the minuet with Miss Dolly!"
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