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Bless my soul, what fellows the world is made of, when here's a man, calling himself a gentleman, who, just because he gets in a rage with his wife for one thing or another and past all competition the handsomest woman of her day, and the cleverest, the nicest, the best of the whole boiling has her out for a public horsewhipping, and sets all the idiots of the kingdom against her!
"In plain English, here is a colonel in his majesty's service saved from a horsewhipping a whole noble family saved from disgrace: these are things not to be forgotten; that is, not to be forgotten, if you force people to remember them: otherwise my word for it I know the great the whole would be forgotten in a week.
Do you think you can find it, and let me know where your uncle lives?" "Yes, sir." "Then do it." "Now you look-a-here!" began Mr. Hardee, "I won't have you, nor anybody else, interferin' with my hired help. "I'm not interfering except to stop you from horsewhipping a boy," said Mr. Bobbsey. "Any one has a right to do that."
But in the comparative silence of the Pullman car the fury of his rage began to abate; and it dawned upon him that, after all, Nan's counsel might have something in it. No doubt these two young fools as he mentally termed them were married by this time. He still clung to the idea that Jack Hanbury deserved punishment a horsewhipping or something of the kind; but Madge was Madge.
Their insolence and cruelty consisted in giving abusive language to, and horsewhipping them as if they were not men, or possessed of the same rights, privileges, and feelings, as themselves.
They make nothing of galloping their horses a hunting right through the crops, ay, and horsewhipping the farmer if he do but say a word for the sweat of his brow." "O Mrs. Jewel!" cried Aurelia, in whose ear lingered the courteous accents of her partner, "they would never behave themselves so." "Bless you, Miss Orreely, I'll tell you what I've seen with my own eyes.
I would give three months' pay for the satisfaction of horsewhipping that fellow Forster. Still, I can't say he did it maliciously, for he could not have known Bathurst was intimate there, or that there was anything between them. The question is, am I to tell Bathurst that she has heard about it? I suppose I had better. Ah, here is the Major," and he drew up his horse. "Anything new, Major?
Whereupon the hackney-coach opens, gives out three porters, or hired bullies, with the due implements: scandalous actuality of horsewhipping descends on the back of poor Arouet, who shrieks and execrates to no purpose, nobody being near.
He looked up, saw her, remembered the part attributed to her in the story and struck the table. "It is damnable that such a thing should be said of you." "Oh," Cassy put in. "It was not at all on my account that I told you. I " She stopped short. The promised horsewhipping occurred to her. Lennox took up the knife, gave it a turn, shoved it away.
But our new rival was evidently in the same condition with our own Jehu, and after a smart horsewhipping of each other, they rushed forward at full speed.
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