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Updated: May 1, 2025
"I now say two ba gars!" exploded Etienne. "Because I been see the jailbird, Dennis Burke, all dress up like minister, go past here with the nephew of Colonel Dodd. And they go 'long after la belle mam'selle." "A jailbird!" "He smart, bad man, that Dennis Burke.
"You miserable thief!" continued his matrimonial partner, aiming a blow at him, which he playfully parried; "why didn't you tell me you were a beggar?" "Why? Because you didn't ask me. For that matter, why didn't you or your father tell me that you were beggars?" "Poor, dear wifey!" said the emollient Chiffield. "None of your 'poor dears' to my daughter, you jailbird!" screamed Mr. Whedell.
I am just as you see me; no wonder my future used to cause anxiety to my mother. I am living without becoming but a jailbird. Two or three days previous to my mother's death, I took it into my head to turn a somersault in the kitchen, and painfully hit my ribs against the corner of the stove. Mother was very angry at this and told me not to show my face again, so I went to a relative to stay with.
Of course I wanted to go too he shook my hand without a word but how could I? They would never have me, a branded jailbird, in the Imperial Yeomanry! Raffles burst out laughing; he had been looking very hard at me for about three seconds. "You rabbit," he cried, "even to think of it! We might as well offer ourselves to the Metropolitan Police Force.
After the trap had swept round a curve out of sight he disappeared in the mesquite and bear-grass, presently returning with the roan that had been ridden by the escaped convict. "Whoever would suppose she was the sister of that scurvy scalawag with jailbird branded all over his hulking hide? He ain't fit to wipe her little feet on. She's as fine as silk.
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