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Updated: May 14, 2025
The comical miscreant no sooner made his appearance than, like Liston, when coming on the stage, he was greeted with a general roar of laughter. "So," said he, "you have a conjurer above. But wait a while; by the powdhers o' delf Rantin' Rody's the boy will try his mettle. If he can look farther than his nose, I'm the lad will find it out.
He excels in the genre of Paul de Kock, and is always striving after the style of Plato; he has a keen perception of the ridiculous and, like Liston or Cruikshank, and other comic artists, persists that his real vein is the sublime.
This worthy had been called a coward by Sandy Liston, and being about to fight with him, and get thrashed, his wife had whipped him up and carried him away; she now flung him down, at some risk of his equilibrium. "Ye are not fit to feicht wi' Sandy Liston," said she; "if ye are for feichtin, here's for ye." As a comment to this proposal, she tucked up the sleeves of her short gown.
Miss Liston and I were very good friends, and my cousin Dora Polton thought, as she informed me, that it would be nice for me to have someone I could talk to about "books and so on." I did not complain. Miss Liston was a pleasant young woman of six-and-twenty; I liked her very much except on paper, and I was aware that she made it a point of duty to read something at least of what I wrote.
The dying scene was irresistibly comic, and I question if Liston, Munden, or Joey Knight, was ever greeted with such merriment; for Romeo dragged the unfortunate Juliet from the tomb, much in the same manner as a washerwoman thrusts into her cart the bag of foul linen. But how shall I describe his death?
"Ye're sure o' thaat?" put in a woman. "Ay, about she comes," said Liston, as the sail came down on the first tack. He was mistaken; they dipped the lug as cleverly as any man in the town could. "Hech! look at her hauling on the rope like a mon," cried a woman. The sail flew up on the other tack. "She's an awfu' lassie,". whined another. "He's awa," groaned Liston, "he's doon!"
The foot was so painful after tea that he could hardly bear his slipper on, and he went ashore in his working clothes to the chemist's, preparatory to fitting himself out for Liston Street. The chemist, leaning over the counter, was inclined to take a serious view of it, and shaking his head with much solemnity, prepared a bottle of medicine, a bottle of lotion and a box of ointment.
"I haven't decided about the ending yet," said she. "If you're intent to be tragical which is the fashion you'll do as you stand," said I. "Yes," she answered slowly, "if I'm tragical, I shall do as I stand." There was another pause, and rather a long one; the wheels of the carriage were audible on the gravel of the front drive. Miss Liston stood up. I rose and held out my hand.
An ingenious charity may find in that attitude evidence of modesty; to my thinking, it argues a more subtle and magnificent conceit than if he had fathomed the truth, as many humbler men in his place would have done. On the day after the engagement was accomplished Miss Liston left us to return to London.
With a fierce shout he dropped the gun, drew his scalping-knife, and sprang towards Waboose, or as I had by that time found a pleasure in mentally styling her Eve Liston.
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