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I tell you, it's a far more desperate business than I thought, and it'll no' do to wait on and trust that the Chief Constable will turn up afore the mischief's done." "The moral," said Heritage, "is that there can be no surrender. We've got to stick it out in this old place at all costs." "No," said Dickson emphatically. "The moral is that we must shift the ladies.
You men never do know anything until the mischief's done. You want me here for a month or so. I'd teach you your duty! Don't know with things like this lying about? I wonder the whole yard isn't loose and dining with the Governor." "This" was a fragment of delft pottery which Frere's quick eye had detected among the broken metal.
I said my two legs were as good as her horses', and one of them I mean of hers has a fine spavin; as to Mrs. Mischief's own legs, they are so thin her garters will not stay above her ankles. "I walked from Third street over Society Hill, thinking to see your father, and to find a big stick for company across the bridges."
"Thanks for your kind services," said Mr Meldrum. "I would have been down before, but was too busy on deck." "I know," replied the other, nodding his head "helping the captain out of the muss, eh? That wer an allfired smash, though! Done much hurt?" "Yes," said Mr Meldrum guardedly, with a glance at the girls; "but the mischief's over now for the present, though."
"You 'aven't seen the old man?" "No; I 'aven't taken that step yet; but I think it's very likely I may before long if you won't hear reason." "I was a d -fool, Aby, ever to let you into the affair at all. It's been going on quiet enough for the last ten years, till I let you into the secret." "Well, never mind about that. That mischief's done.
The first thing that the Lox-Raccoon does in this tale, on coming to life, is to upset a pot into the ashes for mischief's sake. "Then the Husi stag went bounding, Bounding to the land of Pohja, Till he reached the fields of Lapland. He upset the boiling kettle, So that all the meat went rolling, Rolling ruined in the ashes, And the soup upon the hearth-stone."
"The Allies have got Paris, Boney has thrown up the sponge, and his people are all swearing allegiance to Louis XVIII." "And the Emperor?" I asked. "Will they spare him?" "There's talk of sending him to Elba, where he'll be out of mischief's way. But his officers, there are some of them who will not get off so lightly.
For very mischief's sake I could not refrain from reminding him that there was one at least who valued his professions at their real value. 'Have you told the worthy minister, said I, 'of your captivity amongst the Mussulmans, and of the noble way in which you did uphold the Christian faith at Stamboul? 'Nay, cried our companion, 'I would fain hear the tale.
It seems hard that he should come under the yoke so early, but we must not approach such subjects with Western ideas. The exuberant spirits of boyhood are not indigenous to this country, and the dog-boy has none of them. He never does mischief for mischief's sake; he robs no bird's nest; he feels no impulse to trifle with the policeman. Marbles are his principal pastime.
The new lieutenants have done their work well, but them that's left behind in the midshipmen's berth do you think they're content? No, sir. The only spot on board this ship where there lurks an active spirit against you is in the midshipmen's berth. Mischief's there, and that's what's brought me to you now." Dyck smiled. "I know that. I've had my eye on the midshipmen. I've never trusted them.
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