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The officer, having speared his way through the crowd with the usual courtesy of a Frenchman, at length drew up the cab in a long line of anonymous vehicles under the rows of stunted elms by the stone-lined ditch, on the southern side of the plain when, turning his charger round, he saluted Mr. Jorrocks, and bumped off at a trot. Mr.
When supper was over the crone, who was addressed by Girdlestone as Jorrocks, led the way upstairs and showed Kate to her room. If the furniture of the dining-room had been Spartan in its simplicity, this was even more so, for there was nothing in it save a small iron bedstead, much rusted from want of use, and a high wooden box on which stood the simplest toilet requisites.
Times really are so bad, and I have my own pack to subscribe to, and I must be 'just before I am generous." "Oh, but ten pounds is nothing in your way, you know, Jorrocks adulterate a chest of tea. Old here will give you all the leaves off his ash-trees." "No," said Jorrocks, "I really cannot ten pounds is ten pounds, and I must cut my coat according to my cloth."
"He must want some brandy in it," observed Mr. Jorrocks, judging of the Baron by himself, and thereupon the lad was sent for three-penn'orth. When it arrived, the Baron dashed it out of his hand with a prolonged sacré-e-e-e ! adding "I vill von wet-tin-nin-na-ary surgeon."
Jorrocks then took his place as directed by John Jones, and at a signal from him the dropping of a blue cotton handkerchief away they started amid the shouts, the clapping of hands, and applause of the spectators, who covered the mound and lined the course on either side. Mr.
It was about one o'clock, and of course she was still en déshabillé, with her nightcap on, a loose robe de chambre of flannel, and a flaming broad-striped red-and-black Scotch shawl thrown over her shoulders, and swan's-down-lined slippers on her feet. Mr. Jorrocks had his leather pantaloons on, with a rich blue and yellow brocade dressing-gown, and blue morocco slippers to match.
The steward to complete the list of those on board was a flabby half- and-half sort of Welshman, hailing from Cardiff but brought up in London; and, as he was a close ally of the first mate, I need hardly say he was no favourite either of my friend Jorrocks, or with the crew generally all the hands thinking that he skimped the provisions when serving them out, in deference to Mr Macdougall's prejudices in the way of stinginess!
"But how are we to prove it?" inquired the youth. Jorrocks. Call in the waiter. Youth. He may know nothing about him, and a waiter's gentleman is always the man who pays him most. Jorrocks.
He waited thirty seconds, thinking it was five minutes, then went to the door, rang, and entered. "Who came in just now, miss?" "The gentleman for the young lydy, sir." "By jorrocks!" Gammon mounted the stairs at break-neck speed and burst into the private sitting-room.
On a shelf above his head reposed some frayed and yellow novels with sporting titles, written by persons in their inattentive moments. Over the chimneypiece presided the portrait of Mr. Jorrocks persuading his horse to cross a stream. And the face of Jaspar Bellew asleep was the face of a man who has ridden far, to get away from himself, and to-morrow will have to ride far again.
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