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"Away with you, you scoundrel and jackanapes," said Roland, for to this ardent expression of gratitude Edith was herself too much frightened to reply. "Strannger!" cried the offended horse-thief, "you cut the tug, and you cut the halter; and so, though you did it only on hard axing, I'd take as many hard words of you as you can pick out of a dictionary, I will, 'tarnal death to me.
My uncle bounded as if he had been shot, bounded so incautiously, considering the materials of which one leg was composed, that he would have fallen into a strawberry-bed if I had not caught him by the arm. "Why, you you you young jackanapes!" cried the Captain, shaking me off as soon as he had regained his equilibrium.
"None of your fellow," answered Partridge. He then proceeded to inform her plainly that Jones was in bed with a wench, and made use of an expression too indelicate to be here inserted; which so enraged Mrs Honour, that she called him jackanapes, and returned in a violent hurry to her mistress, whom she acquainted with the success of her errand, and with the account she had received; which, if possible, she exaggerated, being as angry with Jones as if he had pronounced all the words that came from the mouth of Partridge.
"You are apt to be giddy, Jackanapes," said Miss Jessamine. "Yes aunt," said Jackanapes, thinking of the hobby-horses. "You are a good boy, Jackanapes. Thank GOD, I can tell your grandfather that. An obedient boy, an honorable boy, and a kind-hearted boy. But you are in short, you are a Boy, Jackanapes.
This between ourselves there is no one by to hear us. Between ourselves you are an impertinent jackanapes, and presume upon the credit of your uncle. No one by to hear us, indeed! GIANETTINO. Sister! sister! don't be angry. I'm only merry because Fiesco is still as much a coxcomb as ever. That's all I wanted to know. The former, LOMELLINO, entering. Pardon my boldness, gracious lady.
Strange, is it not, that nature should make a duplicate of her greatest earthly chef d'oeuvre?" "You conceited young jackanapes!" growled Sir Norman, in deep displeasure. "It is far stranger how such a bundle of vanity can contrive to live in this work-a-day world. You are a foreigner, I perceive?" "Yes, Sir Norman, I am happy to say I am." "You don't like England, then?"
Tooker staid all night with us, and a pretty child she is, and happens to be niece to my beauty that is dead, that lived at the Jackanapes, in Cheapside. So to bed, a little troubled that I have been at two houses this afternoon with Mrs. Lane that were formerly shut up of the plague. 21st.
"Yes, a perfect jackanapes!" said Rudy; this was the first time, that he had said something, that did not please her. The Englishman had presented her with a little book, as a souvenir of Chillon, Byron's poem of "The Prisoner of Chillon," in the French language, so that Babette might read it.
"But you can on your own, my boy, which is lighter, and soars higher, perhaps," the other said, good-naturedly. "Those little scraps and verses which I have seen of yours show me, what is rare in these days, a natural gift, sir. You needn't blush, you conceited young jackanapes. You have thought so yourself any time these ten years.
'Twas brought here by one of our machinists on the recommendation of a jumped-up jackanapes of a fellow who thinks " His eye caught Elizabeth-Jane's imploring face, and he stopped, probably thinking that the suit might be progressing. He turned to go away. Then something seemed to occur which his stepdaughter fancied must really be a hallucination of hers.
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