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Updated: May 9, 2025
Jos accompanied the ladies in the public boats; the which all old travellers in Flanders must remember for the luxury and accommodation they afforded.
The mean, tyrannical, triumphant gaze of the attorney was upon him, and his own countenance was his accuser. Lake ground his teeth, and returned Jos. Larkin's intimidating smirk with a look of fury, which for he now believed he held the winning cards did not appal him.
The Belgians in vain interposed to prevent the butchery of the English. The Brunswickers were routed and had fled their Duke was killed. It was a general debacle. He sought to drown his sorrow for the defeat in floods of beer. Isidor, who had come into the kitchen, heard the conversation and rushed out to inform his master. "It is all over," he shrieked to Jos.
"Suppose we go and have some jellies at Dutton's," and the rogue Jos, willing to kill two birds with one stone. "Devilish fine gal at Dutton's." "Suppose we go and see the Lightning come in, it's just about time?" George said. This advice prevailing over the stables and the jelly, they turned towards the coach-office to witness the Lightning's arrival.
He was inwardly sensible of a sort of condescension in entering so diminutive and homely a place a kind of half amusing disproportion between Jos. Larkin, Esq., of the Lodge, worth, already, L27,000, and on the high road to greatness, and the trumpery little place in which he found himself.
By and by was called a Council of Warr on board, when come Sir W. Pen there, and Sir Christopher Mings, Sir Edward Spragg, Sir Jos.
'pears like it, don't it?" and she chuckled grimly, but with a side glance of ineffable tenderness at the sick man. "Ask her who they be, Jos," she added. Jos lifted himself on his elbow, and fixing his shining eyes on Ramona, said in Spanish, "My mother asks if you are travellers?" "Yes," said Ramona. "We have come all the way from San Diego. We are Indians." "Injuns!" ejaculated Jos's mother.
Meanwhile the gallant Jos had agreed to escort his sister and the Major's wife, the bulk of whose goods and chattels, including the famous bird of paradise and turban, were with the regimental baggage: so that our two heroines drove pretty much unencumbered to Ramsgate, where there were plenty of packets plying, in one of which they had a speedy passage to Ostend.
"He might as well tell us to land him and his engines and to set up a forge and shop," observed Jos Green, the master, who had no greater affection for "steam-kettles" than had old Gunter Scale, his brother master of the Bellona.
His savings, if the good man chose to practise self-denial, were his own and it was a sort of problem while he stayed, and interested him curiously keeping down his bill in matters which he would not have dreamed of denying himself at home. The only client among his wealthy supporters, who ever went in a grudging spirit into one of these little bills of Jos.
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