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He flew up the winding staircase, rushed along the gallery, and darted into the attic. Edmond, Hippolyte Fauville's son, lay stiff and stark on his bed, with a cadaverous face, dead, too. "Dash it all! Dash it all!" repeated Mazeroux. Never, perhaps, in the course of his adventurous career, had Perenna experienced such a knockdown blow.
Honest you do. I'm sired by a gentleman who was a Baptist minister and who instilled in his only son if you lie once you'll do it some more and then you'll get caught. Say, seeing Wanda ain't here to do the knockdown stunt, I'm Dart, Mr. Willie Dart, to command."
To Boswell's record we are indebted also for our knowledge of those famous conversations, those wordy, knockdown battles, which made Johnson famous in his time and which still move us to wonder. Here is a specimen conversation, taken almost at random from a hundred such in Boswell's incomparable biography.
"You gave him a knockdown blow, and an unexpected one. "I was sorry," Drexley said, awkwardly. "In the conduct of the magazine I have to sometimes consider other people. I am not wholly my own master." Rice, who knew who the "other people" were, muttered a curse between his teeth. Drexley turned frowning away. "At any rate, if you hear anything of him," he said, "let me know."
You must not think him a quarrelsome boy, who always wanted to be fighting; nothing of the sort, but he cherished a firm conviction and I don't think he was far wrong that big, hulking bullies deserved no better treatment than that contained in good, hard, knockdown blows, and these he never hesitated to give, did the occasion warrant it.
It was a note, written seven years before; but not by her; by Lucia ere her marriage. A simple invitation to dinner in Eaton Square, written for Lady Knockdown, but with a postscript from Lucia, herself: "Do come, and I will promise not to tease you as I did last night." That was, perhaps, the only kind or familiar word which he had ever had from his idol; and he had treasured it to the last.
It seemed to come in gusts, checked off at intervals by suppressed exclamations and knee-slaps. It was a knockdown blow, with no one to call time. But then, there were no rules, so when a new inquiry presented itself, abrupt utterance followed: "Wasn't there any?... wasn't there any?..." followed by a pause and a difficulty of word-choice.
John Barty, you as ever was the king o' the milling coves, here's my hand, shake it. Lord, John, what a master o' the Game we've made of our lad. He's stronger than you and quicker than ever I was. Man Jack, 'twas as sweet, as neat, as pretty a knockdown as ever we gave in our best days, John.
I heard them say once they liked to be able to take out a book without having to bother with a door." "Me, too," agreed Margaret. "And I never could see the use of a back." "That's what I say," said Helen. "I'd rather dust the books more carefully and not have the extra weight added to the bookcase." "You know the furniture they call 'knockdown'?" Everybody nodded.
He may never tell the fragment of a lie, and never think the whole truth. He may wound the pride and hurt the feelings of all with whom he comes in contact, and never give his own soul the benefit of one good knockdown blow.
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