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It shows that they're afraid about her, and they wouldn't be afraid without cause." "There is not much of that, I fancy." "They oughtn't to have a chance against you, not if you play your game well. Even in ordinary cases the fathers and mothers are beaten by the lovers nine times out of ten. It is only when the men are oafs and louts that they are driven off.
Why, the Brahmins have a regular ritual for dealing with cases of recovery on the funeral pyre purification after defilement by the corpse-washers or something of the sort. These stupid oafs are letting poor Priddell die " "What! you drunken talkin' parrot," roared the incensed Sergeant. "'Ere, sling 'is drunken rotten carkis " "What's the row here?" cut in a quiet curt voice.
Lizzie, when she had read this, had declared to herself that of all the female oafs she had ever seen, Augusta Fawn was the greatest oaf. When she found that Lady Fawn was alone, she did not betray herself, or ask for the beloved friend of the future.
"And who expected to see any thing," said Bletson, "excepting those terrified oafs, who take fright at every puff of wind that whistles through the passages of this old dungeon?" "Mark you, Master Tomkins," said one of the waiting-men in a whisper to the steward, "See how boldly the minister pressed forward before all of them. Ah!
I intend to make a few campaigns there against the enemy of Christendom." "O Mr. Archfield!" was all she could say. "See here, I have perceived plainly that to sink down into my lady's eldest son is no wholesome life for a man with all his powers about him. I understand now what a set of oafs we were to despise the poor fellow you wot of, because he was not such a lubber as ourselves.
It was but the restlessness of youth, perhaps, that disturbed him so, for in Galilee there were oafs as awkward as any that Britannia could show; there was game in abundance; blood, too, was not as infrequent as it might have been; and as for women, there at his side stood one as appetizing as Rome, Spain even, had produced.
I never saw such a lot of oafs. "I tell you, Sam," bellowed Billoo, "that the financial status of this country, owing to that infernal lunatic in the White House " "If you must tell me again " I began. "Oh," he said disgustedly, "you can't be serious about anything. You're so da a ah urn rich that you never give a thought to the suffering of the consumer."
But if the great Guillemard had not stopped to live up to his sporting reputation, he would assuredly have laid one or other of us by the heels, and either would have been tantamount to both. As I gave Raffles a headlong lead to the baize door, I glanced down the great well of stairs, and up came the daft yells of these sporting oafs: "Gone away gone away!" "Yoick yoick yoick?" "Yon-der they go?"
He smoked and watched the dim forms of those whom the heat drove forth into the night, men with coats over their arms and straw hats in their hands, young girls thinly clad in white, bare-headed, moving two and two with dragging steps and scarcely spirit left even for common coquetry or any response to the jesting oafs who passed.
And I felt, of course, that I had done more harm than good by questioning; inasmuch as every soul in the place would run straightway and inform him that the King's man from the other side of the forest had been sifting out his ways and works." "Ah," I cried, for I could not help it; "you begin to understand at last, that we are not quite such a set of oafs, as you at first believed us."
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