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Such an escape I just discovered it, and was barely in time: you hadn't been gone two hours when I found it all out, through a clever devil of a lawyer, who was hired by my father's son to look into incumbrances, and keep a sharp look-out for a mutual settlement; that old harridan of a ladyship is over head and ears in debt; and, it seems, I was to have paid all straight, or i. e. you, governor, ey?
In vain did the luckless sportsman try to make her understand how the blunder had occurred, and he had mistaken "Noiraud" for a lion. The harridan believed he was making fun of her, and uttering energetical "Der Teufels!" fell upon our hero to bang him with the gingham.
"Only, as I guess, in so far as she accuses you of having played the devil with her plan for marrying me up with my cousin Di'? If Di' had been the last woman in the world. . . . But the old harridan never spoke to me after the grooming I gave her that morning at Natchett. 'Faith, and I did treat her to some plain talk!" he wound up with another laugh. "But what harm can she do you?"
The Court milliner had business with her ladyship every day, and was regaled with cakes and liqueurs in her ladyship's dressing-room. "You must be very busy about new gowns, Hyacinth," her husband said to her one day at dinner. "I meet the harridan from Covent Garden on the stairs every morning." "She is not a harridan, whatever that elegant word may mean.
So saying, Master Job entered, leaving me in the passage, but soon returned with a disappointed air. "The old harridan has left them below," said he, "I must go down for them; your honour will wait here till I return." Suiting the action to the word, honest Job immediately descended, leaving me alone with my own reflections.
The old harridan stared, and her speech suddenly became clear-cut: "Well, 'fo' Gawd, I says I didn't, too!" At this point the Captain made an unintelligible sound and spread the butter on his hot biscuit. "He's jes a nigger, lak I is," stated the cook, warmly. The Captain buttered a second hot biscuit. "We's jes two niggers." The Captain hoped she would presently sputter herself out.
She, too, came attended by a second coach, which was filled by her ladyship's French waiting-woman, Mrs. Lewin, and a pile of boxes and parcels. "I'll wager that in the rapture and romance of your sweethearting you have not given a thought to petticoats and mantuas," she said, after she had embraced her sister, who was horrified at the sight of that painted harridan from London.
Spargo turned on his disreputable and dissolute companion with all his journalistic energies and instincts roused. He had not been sure, since entering the "King of Madagascar," that he was going to hear anything material to the Middle Temple Murder; he had more than once feared that this old gin-drinking harridan was deceiving him, for the purpose of extracting drink and money from him.
After all, she had not buckled on her armour only to run away from the enemy in it. The street Arab impudence was not quite killed in her by the strange influence of this man. The mere fact of having her feet firmly planted upon the floor gave Cuckoo a certain fillip of courage, and she tossed her head with that old vulgar gesture of hers which suggested the harridan. She pointed to the door.
'I haven't such a thing about me; but if you mean Ben Kyley, said Mary, 'come down in your private capacity, sergeant, and put the question to him in the same gentlemanly way. I'll hold your coat and see you get fair play, if I have to referee the argument myself. 'Where is Kyley, you harridan?
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