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"You've never tried, my dear," said Moulder. "I don't know about being your dear, Mr. Moulder " "Nor yet don't I neither, Mrs. Smiley," said the wife. "Mr. Kenneby's my dear, and I ain't ashamed to own him, before men and women. But if he allows hisself to be hocussed in that way, I don't know but what I shall be ashamed. I call it hocussing just hocussing."
As people began to recover from the first enchantment, they began also to resent it and to complain that a dose of that insane Garrison-root which takes the reason prisoner had been palmed upon them without their knowing it, and that their ordinary watergruel of fiction, thinned with sentiment and thickened with moral, had been hocussed with the bewildering hasheesh of Abolition.
Frederick Pigeon avers that it was at her house at Lausanne that he was hocussed at supper and lost eight hundred pounds to Major Loder and the Honourable Mr. Deuceace. We are bound, you see, to give some account of Becky's biography, but of this part, the less, perhaps, that is said the better. They say that, when Mrs.
No. Eh! Laudanum! By George, he's been hocussed!" "Nonsense!" "I see it," slapping his thigh. "It's that infernal woman! Dawes was right, sir. She's in it; I'll swear she's in it." "What! my wife's maid? Nonsense!" said Vickers. "Nonsense!" echoed Frere. "It's no nonsense. That soldier who was shot, what's his name? Miles, he but, however, it doesn't matter. It's all over now."
"Good heavens!" I cried out, with involuntary indignation, and his fell scheme broke upon me in a clap. "Yes, sir!" said Maguire, fixing me with his bloodshot orbs. "My trap for crooks and cracksmen is a bottle of hocussed whiskey, and I guess that's it on the table, with the silver label around its neck.
He sat down suddenly and heavily, in chairs; he pummelled them with his plump, red fists, whereby to test their springs; he opened the doors of cabinets; he peered into drawers; he rapped upon tables, and altogether comported himself as a thoroughly knowing man should, who is not to be hocussed by veneer, or taken in by the shine, and splendour of well applied bees-wax.
Mentioning them unfort'net words of mine respecting Gaffer, it is contrairily to be bore in mind that Gaffer always were a precious rascal, and that his line were a thieving line. Besides which, I think the wine of them two Governors was I will not say a hocussed wine, but fur from a wine as was elthy for the mind. And there's another thing to be remembered, Captain.
The Missing Link was trying to think. Understanding came in a flash. He had been stolen from the show. These rascals had given him hocussed rum, and had got him away, probably tied to one of the horses. His aching limbs hinted at that, and he could see the horses grazing among the trees. Nickie reviewed the situation.
Poor, misguided Jehadieh and hocussed Arabs of the spacious and cruel Soudan! With such troops disciplined and trained by English officers the policing of Africa would be an easy affair. Try and try as they did, they could not moving openly pass through our blasts of fire.
It's like flying in the face of Providence missing drinks that are thrown at you. I'll encourage them to the extent of one drink, anyhow. Here's luck." The Missing Link seized that pannikin of rum, the Missing Link took a good, long pull, and in less than half a minute was curled up on the straw, dead to the world, a thoroughly hocussed man-monkey.
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