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"I reckon I can thrash my own children when it’s needed, without gettin’ in help from the East, or hereabouts either, for that matter. If other folks would only take out their public-spirited reformin’ tendencies on their own famblies, there’d be a heap less lynchin’ likely to happen round the country in the course of the next ten years." Old Sally let the home-thrust pass.
The Countess de Saint-Hereen, left to herself, thought that her mother had given her a somewhat shrewd home-thrust, but a kiss and a few attentions that evening would make all right again. A shrill cry came from the garden. She leaned carelessly out, as Pauline, not yet departed on her errand, called out for help, holding the Marquise in her arms.
Up to this time Theobald's manner had been studiously calm, and his words had been uttered slowly, but here he suddenly quickened and flung off the mask as he added the words, "or some such cock and bull story, which your mother and I were too truthful to disbelieve. You can guess what must be our feelings now." Ernest felt that this last home-thrust was just.
It was in vain that he swelled and looked big, and talked large, and endeavoured to make up by pomp of manner for poverty of matter; every home-thrust of the radical made him wheeze like a bellows, and seemed to let a volume of wind out of him.
But no; Hannah wanted no repairs whatever. The hut was large enough for her and her sister, only too small to entertain visitors. So with this pointed home-thrust from Hannah, and a glance that at once healed the wound from Nora, he was forced to take his departure. The next day he called again; he had, unluckily, left his gloves behind him during his preceding visit.
Name the day, and be quite certain that I shall anxiously look for it." "I should have been sure of your compliance, if you had not given me cause to doubt it." "It is a home-thrust, but I deserve it." "And I hope it will not make you angry. Now I am happy. Our friend is M. de Bernis, the French ambassador. He will come masked, and as soon as he shews his features I shall present him to you.
"Faith an' sure," retorted Mike, "that's bekase ye don't want 'em, avic. Ye've got so many pigs, me darlint, amongst ye, bedad, ov yer own, sure, an' not fur off, nayther, I'm a-thinkin'!" Before `Ugly' could make any reply to this sharp home-thrust, a bugle rang out loudly throughout the ship fore and aft, putting a stop to the interesting conversation.
"Somebody else who was at Mambury that day, no doubt," she replied, with a meaning look. "It MUST have been somebody out of the few who were at Mambury." That home-thrust told. The judge's colour was livid to look upon. What could this girl mean? How on earth could she know? How had she even found out he was at Mambury at all? A terrible doubt oppressed his soul.
"Not a whit, not a whit," said Oldbuck; "men fight best in a narrow ring an inch is as good as a mile for a home-thrust." "It is decidedly Celtic," said the Baronet; "every hill in the Highlands begins with Ben." "But what say you to Val, Sir Arthur; is it not decidedly the Saxon wall?" "It is the Roman vallum," said Sir Arthur; "the Picts borrowed that part of the word."
You're a pretty colour, certainly; why, your liver, man, is upside down. Did you take that medicine? did he take that medicine, men?" "Ay, ay, sir, he took it, sure enough," returned Morgan. "Because, you see, since I am mutineers' doctor, or prison doctor, as I prefer to call it," says Dr. The rogues looked at each other, but swallowed the home-thrust in silence.
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