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When we found our sight four revolvers covered us, and between two of them the colossal frame of Reuben Rosenthall shook with a wheezy laughter from head to foot. "Good-evening, boys," he hiccoughed. "Glad to see ye at last. Shift foot or finger, you on the left, though, and you're a dead boy. I mean you, you greaser!" he roared out at Raffles. "I know you. I've been waitin' for you.
"You're coming apart, Tom. Go in and get some sleep!" "I was sleepin', till a empty whiskey bottle come sailin' through the air an' hit me on my hand." A cold shiver crawled up the engineer's spine, but he turned to unhitch the horse, saying casually: "You'll have blue mice sailing through the air if you don't sober up." "Don't be in a hurry," hiccoughed Tom.
I think I've found just the right kind of girl unspoiled by society notions, sensible on every point " "Even on that of letting you have your own way?" laughed Hadley. "Precisely. She is ideal in every particular. Clever, amiable, good looking, not too strait-laced she's just the girl I want. Don't you remember," he hiccoughed, "it was you yourself who recommended her "
"Candle out, devil in, soul lost, there you have it in three words clever as any of your long-winded preachers! But I want my things. I am going before it is too late. Advise you to go too, young man," he hiccoughed, "before you are overlooked. She is a witch! She's the devil's mark on her, I tell you! I'd like to have the finding it!"
The same persons who, a few months before, with meek voices and demure looks, had consulted divines about the state of their souls now surrounded the midnight table, where, amidst the bounding of champagne corks, a drunken prince, enthroned between Dubois and Madame de Parabère, hiccoughed out atheistical arguments and obscene jests.
"Very far from it, Doctor," said Power; "I'll draw up a little account of the affair for 'Saunders. They shall hear of it in every corner and nook of the kingdom." "The bursar of Trinity shall be a proverb for a good fellow that loveth his lush," hiccoughed out Fegan. "And if you believe that such conduct is academical," said the doctor, with a withering sneer.
"Is that a decent way to talk to a man who is going out? Never heed him, Dick! Let him wait for his dirty guineas till we return." "Thirty guineas?" hiccoughed Richard. "It was only eight. Anyhow wait'll I've sli' the gullet of's Mr. Wilding." He checked on a thought that suddenly occurred to him. He turned to Vallancey with a ludicrous solemnity. "'Sbud!" he swore.
"I did not know it was you, Rolf Erlingsson," he hiccoughed over and over in maudlin terror. "I beg you not to be angry." "It is seldom that I have seen such a coward as that," Alwin said in disgust as they walked on. Rolf turned upon him his gentle smile. "It is your opinion, then, that a man must be a coward to fear me?"
Ha long cutlasses! Take that, runaway!" "What's the matter with ye, Phil?" hiccoughed the other, who was not yet asleep. "Keep quiet, will ye? Ye ain't at Fontenoy now." "He's a runaway prisoner, I say. Catch him, catch him!" "Oh, stush with your drunken dreaming," again hiccoughed his comrade, violently nudging him. "This comes o' carousing."
The men were ready for a good time, as they called it, and it was at the suggestion of one of them that Phil had been invited in. "Play a tune on your fiddle, you little ragamuffin," said one. Phil cared little how he was addressed. He was at the service of the public, and what he chiefly cared for was that he be paid for his services. "What shall I play?" he asked. "Anything," hiccoughed one.
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