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"'Od's blood, M'sieu," he would laugh, oddly mixing his dialect, "but this is seeing the wilderness with a vengeance! Though there is no lack of variety to speed the days, yet I would I were back in my post of Brisac on the Saskatchewan, with a keg of good-liquor on the table and my hearty voyaguers shouting their chansons outside, my clerks and traders making merry within.
Let us have some good sack with plenty of body in it. Claret for youth, say I, sack for maturity, and strong waters in old age. Fly, my sweetest, move those dainty feet of thine, for egad! my throat is like leather. Od's 'oons, I drank deep last night, and yet it is clear that I could not have drunk enough, for I was as dry as a concordance when I awoke.
"I have done a rash thing since I saw you, Richard, and bought a little plantation in Talbot, next to Singleton's. It will be my ruin," he added. "A lawyer has no business with landed ambitions." "A little plantation!" echoed the captain. "'Od's life, he has bought one of his Lordship's own manors as good an estate as there is in the province." "You overdo it, Daniel," said he, reprovingly.
And now it is you begging to see her. Had your eyes been opened, sir, you might have had many a glimpse of Miss Dolly these three weeks past." "What! She has been watching with me?" I asked, in a rapture not to be expressed. "'Od's, but those are secrets. And the medical profession is close-mouthed, Mr. Carvel. So you want to see her? No," cries he, "'tis not needful to swear it on the Evangels.
Marmaduke? The man said, with as near a grin as he ever got, that the marster was gone to Mrs. Cornelys's assembly. As I turned away, sick at heart, the physician, in his tie-wig and scarlet cloak, came out, and I stopped him. He was a testy man, and struck the stone an impatient blow with his staff. "'Od's life, sir. I am besieged day and night by you young gentlemen.
He advanced upon her, and she stopped gaping, and got herself out with a great clatter of crockery. "Od burn and blast it! I want it," says the wet gentleman, and collapsed into a chair. "I believe you, squire. I want it." "What is the news with you?" Mr. Waverton said. "Od's bones, ha' you got the megs? The megs, I say. Oh, rot you, the ready, the hundred guineas?" "Is it done then?" Mr.
"You may be thankful that you missed the artery, my Lord," he said. "With all my heart, Colonel Washington!" cried his Lordship. "I owe my life to his generosity." "What's that, sir?" Mr. Carvel dropped his sword, rather than run me through." "I'll warrant!" Captain Daniel put in; "'Od's heart! The lad has skill to point the eye of a button. I taught him myself."
"By the bye," he continued, pouring out his chocolate into the dish, "I sent a damned rake of a parson out there some years gone. Handsome devil, too. Never seen his match with the women, egad. 'Od's fish " he leered. And then added with an oath and a nod and a vile remark: "Married three times to my knowledge. Carried off dozen or so more. Some of 'em for me. Many a good night I've had with him.
Marmaduke? The man said, with as near a grin as he ever got, that the marster was gone to Mrs. Cornelys's assembly. As I turned away, sick at heart, the physician, in his tie-wig and scarlet cloak, came out, and I stopped him. He was a testy man, and struck the stone an impatient blow with his staff. "'Od's life, sir. I am besieged day and night by you young gentlemen.
Od's feet, man, if ye object to me, what the henker would ye think of some whom I have known? However, let that pass. It is time that we were at the wars, for our good swords will not bide in their scabbards. "The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, For want of fighting was grown rusty, And ate into itself for lack Of somebody to hew and hack."
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