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But before God and all the holy angels, Blanche de Malétroit, if I have not, I care not one jack-straw. So let me recommend you to be polite to our young friend; for, upon my word, your next groom may be less appetizing." And with that he went out, with the chaplain at his heels; and the arras fell behind the pair. The girl turned upon Denis with flashing eyes.

We be no great scholars here, that's true, but there isn't a Tom-rig or Jack-straw in these parts that don't know where they lie as well as I. Now I've lived, man and boy, these eight-and-sixty years, and never met a man in my life afore who hadn't learnt such a common thing as the four quarters.

As he leaned back in his revolving chair, with feet adroitly balanced against a tilted scrap basket, his air of relaxed power made Mr. Dagonet's venerable elegance seem as harmless as that of an ivory jack-straw and his first replies to his visitor were made with the mildness of a kindly giant. "Ralph don't make a living out of the law, you say?

You may bless your God you have only to deal with the hand of velvet, mademoiselle. It was my duty to get you married without delay. Out of pure goodwill, I have tried to find your own gallant for you. And I believe I have succeeded. But before God and all the holy angels, Blanche de Maletroit, if I have not, I care not one jack-straw.

O might I live but to utter all my meditations on this most concerning point! Ib. p. 12. By this your error you cut in sunder and separate the word and the spirit, &c. Was not that a different mood, in which he called St. James's Epistle a 'Jack-Straw poppet'; and even in this work selects one verse as the best in the whole letter, evidently meaning, the only verse of any great value?

But before God and all the holy angels, Blanche de Malétroit, if I have not, I care not one jack-straw. So let me recommend you to be polite to our young friend; for upon my word, your next groom may be less appetising." And with that he went out, with the chaplain at his heels; and the arras fell behind the pair. The girl turned upon Denis with flashing eyes.