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I! That identical Clifton; that bold, gay, spirited fellow, who has so often vaunted of and been admired for his daring! You may meet me with my satchel at my back; not with a shining, but a whindling, lackadaisy, green-sickness face; blubbering a month's sorrow, after having been flogged by my master, beaten by my chum, and dropped my plum cake in the kennel.
She tortures me, by half constraining me to revere the virtues in favour of which she harangues so divinely. But shall I like a poor uxorious lackadaisy driveller sit down satisfied with a divided heart? I! she not with her own lips, under her own hand, avowed and signed her contumelious guilt, her audacious preference of a rival? A mean, a base, a vulgar rival!
With these words she advanced to the bed, in which he lay, and, finding the sheets cold, exclaimed, "Good lackadaisy! The rogue is fled." "Fled," cried I, with feigned amazement, "God forbid! Sure he has not robbed us!" Then, springing up, I laid hold of my breeches, and emptied all my loose money into my hand; which having reckoned, I said, "Heaven be praised, our money is all safe!
"I have made a discovery. There is a gentleman lying asleep there on the wet grass." "Lackadaisy! why, you don't say so." "It is a friend; and he will catch his death." "Why, of course he will. He will have had a drop too much, Miss Lucy. I'll wake him, and we will take him along home with us." "Oh, not for the world, nurse. I would not have him see what I am doing, oh, not for all the world!"
And you, Grimaud," he said to his companion, who had just come in after his round with D'Artagnan, "are you thirsty?" "As thirsty as a Scotchman!" was Grimaud's laconic reply. And he sat down and began to cast up the accounts of his party, whose money he managed. "Oh, lackadaisy! I'm beginning to feel queer!" cried Blaisois.
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