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This person is the notorious Monsieur G , who was detected cheating at ecarte at the `Travellers, was a defaulter on the St Leger in the St Patrick's year, has been warned off every race-course in England, by the Jockey Club, besides being horsewhipped by half the Legs in England. He can get no gentleman to bring you a message, sir; and if he could, you must not meet him."
He also gathered from remarks coming up to the window that the person referred to stood in grave danger of being "skinned alive," "swung to a limb," "horsewhipped till he can't stand," "rode on a rail," "ham-strung," "drownded," "hung up by the thumbs," "dogged out o' town," "peppered with bird-shot," "filled with buckshot," and numerous other unpleasant alternatives, no one of which was conducive to the peace of mind.
She'd be glad if I went West to-morrow." The hot blood rushed into Roderick's face. He turned upon the young man, but they were passing under an electric light and the look of misery in Fred's face disarmed him. He burst into derisive laughter. "Well, of all the idiots!" he exclaimed. "You ought to be horsewhipped for insulting a young lady so.
He and the boys helped her into the wagon. "The boy who struck her ought to be horsewhipped," said the grocer. "Fun is one thing, but hitting an old woman is quite another." "Just what I say," answered Shep. "Well, I knocked him down anyway," said Snap, coming up, and Giant told the details of the brief encounter.
"You mean about the whipping?" Beresford asked gently. "That's all," Morse answered bitterly. "Nothing a-tall. I merely had her horsewhipped. You wouldn't think any girl would object to that, would you?" "I'd like to hear the right of it. How did it happen?" "The devil was in me, I reckon. We were runnin' across the line that consignment of whiskey you found and destroyed near Whoop-Up.
'Will you make yourself known to me? asked Nicholas in a suppressed voice. 'No, replied the other fiercely, and confirming the refusal with an oath. 'No. 'If you trust to your horse's speed, you will find yourself mistaken, said Nicholas. 'I will accompany you. By Heaven I will, if I hang on to the foot-board. 'You shall be horsewhipped if you do, returned Sir Mulberry.
PS. My husband asks me to tell you to warn Lord Amblesham to keep out of his way or to assume some disguise so complete that he will not be recognised by him and horsewhipped. PPS. I am sending copies of this letter to the principal London and provincial newspapers. But enough! I never thought I should be so strong in this line. I had not foreseen such copiousness and fatal fluency.
"Ah, you make me the happiest, the most grateful of men," cried Mr. Vernon, rising, with a semi-genuflection which seemed to imply, "Consider yourself knelt to," just as a courteous assailer, with a motion of the hand, implies, "Consider yourself horsewhipped." Lucretia, who, with all her intellect, had no capacity for humour, recoiled, and looked up in positive surprise.
And he did so more than once. "That's the first chance I've had to kiss you since we came aboard. What an outrage it is that brothers cannot be more attentive to their own sisters than to other men's sisters." "It seems to be customary for brothers to neglect their sisters," she suggested demurely. "A brother who neglects his sister ought to be horsewhipped," declared he. "Amen to that.
"The Colonel's compliments, Count, and he begs you will do him the favour, in case you hear anything more from that fellow, as you horsewhipped, Count, to let him know at Thomas's at once, for you must not treat him as a gentleman, no how, the Colonel says; and if so be he gives you any trouble, the Colonel can get his flint fixed the Colonel can!"
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