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"What," as Thackeray asks, "could be expected from a wedding which had such a beginning from such a bridegroom and such a bride? Malmesbury tells us how the Prince reeled into the Chapel Royal to be married on the evening of Wednesday, the 8th of April; and how he hiccuped out his vows of fidelity."
Talkin' about food " "No! No! No!" cried Pyecroft, kicking again. "What about 'Op?" I thought the Marine's ribs would have snapped, but he merely hiccuped. "Oh, 'im! 'E 'ad it written all down on 'is little slate I think an' 'e shoves it under the old man's nose. 'Shut the door, says 'Op. 'For 'Eavin's sake shut the cabin door! Then the old man must ha' said somethin' 'bout irons.
At last, the perplexed wit, getting more irascible as he grew more bewildered, suddenly seized the vast incumbrance by the arm, and said to him in a sharp, querulous tone, "Pray, Monsieur, why are you like the lote tree in Mahomet's Seventh Heaven?" "Sir!" cried the astonished Frenchman. Vincent steered by, and, joining me, hiccuped out, "In rebus adversis opponite pectora fortia."
Men like him keep up to the last, then lay them down to rise to more... WHO is with him? A stranger? A-ah!" And, the next moment, a bulk so large and shapeless that it might well have been the darkness of the night embodied, stumbled against the outer side of the door, grunted, hiccuped, and lurching head foremost into the hut, grew wellnigh to the ceiling.
It hiccuped nickels, and as Win's terrified eyes, instead of taking in New York, watched the spendthrift contrivance yelping for her dollars, she remembered that she owned but two hundred. She had had to be "decent" about tips on board. But forty pounds two hundred dollars had looked magnificent in her hand bag that morning.
"What's this, stopping the way of a gentleman?" hiccuped the man, bringing himself up with ludicrous effort to his full height, and suspending his capering for the better support of his soldierly dignity. Then, stepping closer to Ralph, and peering into his face, he cried, "Why, it's the man of mystery, as the sergeant calls him.
Dyck had been drinking a good deal, but this knowledge of a French invasion, and a sense of what Boyne was trying to do, steadied his shaken emotions; held him firmly in the grip of practical common sense. He laughed, hiccuped a little, as though he was very drunk, and said: "Of course the French would like to come to Ireland; they'd like to seize it and hold it. Why, of course they would!
Staniford and the captain exchanged threatening looks of intelligence, while Mr. Watterson and Dunham subordinately waited their motion. But the advantage, as in such cases, was on the side of Hicks. He knew it, with a drunkard's subtlety, and was at his ease. "No app'tite, friends; but thought I'd come out, keep you from feeling lonesome." He laughed and hiccuped, and smiled upon them all.
He went on steadily, comparing the moderation of the women with the red-hot violence of their Chartist forbears till one half-drunken listener, having lost the thread, hiccuped out 'Can't do nothin' them women. Even after we've showed 'em 'ow! 'Has he got his history right? Vida asked through her smiling at the last sally. 'Not that it applies, of course, she was in haste to add.
He poured the brandy into two big glasses and hiccuped with a laugh: "The cognac of an enemy tastes well." Then he fell back on the sofa, muttering: "The soldier reposing " His face was crimson. Jean shrugged his shoulders and left the room. He had hardly opened the door when the old man began howling in his sleep: "Help! help! they're murdering me."
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