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The words had hardly left his lips when there was the sharp report of Mr Denning's piece, followed directly after by a second shot, and the rush of feet upon the deck. "Well!" said the captain grimly. "Did you bring down your gaol-bird, sir?" "No," replied Mr Denning, as he drew back and began to reload.
When I emerge I shall be no gaol-bird. I shall be Rocco the great Rocco. And half the hotels in Europe will invite me to join them. 'Let me tell you, as man to man, that you have achieved your own degradation. There is no excuse. 'I know it, said Rocco. 'Let us go.
This disreputable old man, whose grey hairs, far from making him venerable, but emphasised his sodden degradation; this tipsy, filthy, obscene old man; this gaol-bird, this doer of dirty work, this pandar, beggar, outcast, who bore without offence such a title of contempt as Bibi Ragoût, was a fallen gentleman, the wreck of something that had once been noble.
Some of these were probably only half-understood, even by Micky; being, so to speak, the chirps of a gaol-bird. But Dave's report seemed to point to "Now, is that young to be trusted not to split?" although he made little attempt to render the asterisky parts of speech. Uncle Mo and Mr. Jerry glanced at one another, seeming to understand a phrase that had puzzled Aunt M'riar.
What Frank Hardy was to me before he is still, only more dear, an' I'd as lief everybody in Waddy knew it. 'A gaol-bird an' a thief he is. 'He is in gaol, an' that may make a gaol-bird of him, but he is no thief. 'Twas you got him into gaol, an' now you dare do this. Shine's slate-coloured eyes slid up and fell again. ''Twas done in the way o' duty. He don't deny I found the gold on him.
Most of the villages are known by more than one, but Alalá rejoices in as many aliases as an old gaol-bird, viz. Alalá, Asalim, and Navarim. Entering it ourselves, we swam the horses over one by one. It took us the best part of two hours. Though only two hundred yards wide, they were off their legs nearly the whole way. What we should have done without Mr. V 's aid I know not.
Rebel and traitor and gaol-bird though he be, he never injured me in word, thought, or deed.... For all these reasons, madam, we must be companions still." She had covered her face while he was speaking, and she kept it hidden when he had finished. The slowly lengthening shadows of the trees had barred the little glade with black when he spoke again.
The Prague dignitary purpled. "You call your sister's husband a sweep!" "Forgive me. I should have said 'gas-fitter." "And who are you?" shrieked Friedland; "you gaol-bird!" "The honor of going to gaol for truth and justice will never be yours, my dear brother-in-law."
We've tried all we can to keep the profession select. The gaol-bird pure and simple we have cast out. The men who have suffered at our hands have been men who have met with their deserts." "What about us?" Peter demanded. "It seems to me that you had most unpleasant plans for our future." Philip Burr held up his hands.
I wonder if that man is one of them?" Gerald Ainley's face had regained its natural colour. Again he laughed as he replied: "If he is the man I knew he is certainly of the lost legion, for he has been in prison." "In prison?" echoed the woman quickly. "He does not look like a gaol-bird. What was the crime?" "Forgery! The judge was merciful and gave him three years' penal servitude."
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