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'Tis pleasant enough to be cheated for a little while, as the younkers are, and as you'll be, your honour; but that's a pleasure don't last long t'other lasts all your life; dare say your honour's often heard rich gentlemen say to their sons, 'you ought, for your own happiness' sake, like, my lad, to have summut to do ought to have some profession, be you niver so rich, very true, your honour, and what does that mean? why it means that 'stead of being idle and cheated, the boy ought to be busy and cheat augh!"
Got with much ease now merrily to horse. Henry IV. Part I. With the first peep of day Henry awoke, and found the faithful Cuddie standing beside him with a portmanteau in his hand. "I hae been just putting your honour's things in readiness again ye were waking," said Cuddie, "as is my duty, seeing ye hae been sae gude as to tak me into your service."
"Out upon thee, reprobate" cries the parson "out upon thee, blasphemous wretch! Dost thou think his honour's soul is in the possession of Satan?"
'And what may ye be, friend? said the Gifted Gilfillan. 'A puir pedlar, that's bound for Stirling, and craves the protection of your honour's party in these kittle times. Ah' your honour has a notable faculty in searching and explaining the secret, ay, the secret and obscure and incomprehensible causes of the backslidings of the land; ay, your honour touches the root o' the matter.
"I beg your honour's pardon," replied the pimp, "I had indeed forgotten, but it shall be remedied in a moment." And saying this, he pulled a strong ribband out of his pocket, and getting into the chariot, fastened the soft and lily hands of our heroine behind her. She screamed, and invoked the name of his lordship a thousand times.
La, who but a madman begging your honour's pardon it's a matter of twenty years since fader lived at Saint Bees, which is twenty, or forty, or I dunna know not how many miles from this part, to the West, on the coast side; and I would not have left Saint Bees, but that fader' 'Oh, the devil take your father! replied I.
Quest cursed him steadily for a minute: "Do you think I haven't got the nerve to use it when m' honour's 'volved? I tell you," he said thickly, "when m' honour's 'volved " "You get drunk, don't you?" observed Duane. "What a pitiful pup you are, anyway. Go to bed."
"Well, my good man," said he, brushing off, with the arm of his coat, some dust that had settled on his inexpressibles, "so you want to consult me?" "Indeed, your honour, I do; but feel a little awkward in doing so a stranger and all." "Pooh! medical men are never strangers. I am the friend of every man who requires my assistance." "Augh! and I do require your honour's assistance very sadly."
"The hut is yours, such as it is, and should be were it a King's palace, as I wish it were even for your honour's sake, and Mistress Alice's only I could wish your honour would condescend to let me step down before, in case any neighbour be there or or just to put matters something into order for Mistress Alice and your honour just to make things something seemly and shapely."
Instead of the braggart and brawler that his enemies mispainted him, I saw in Roosevelt, rather, a strong man who had taken early to heart Hamlet's maxim and had steadfastly practiced it: "Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake."
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