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'And did you run through four thousand pounds a year? I exclaimed. 'Od's bodikins, man, you speak as if this paltry sum were all the wealth of the Indies. Why, from Ormonde or Buckingham, with their twenty thousand, down to ranting Dicky Talbot, there was not one of my set who could not have bought me out.
'It is but a trick, I explained. 'I have practised it in the winter evenings at home. 'It is not a trick that I should care to have played upon me, said Lord Grey, amid a general murmur of applause and surprise. 'Od's bud, man, you have lived two centuries too late. What would not your thews have been worth before gunpowder put all men upon a level! 'Wunderbar! growled Buyse, 'wunderbar!
'Ged, I've forestalled you, cried the courtier. 'Sink me, but it gives me real pain. He is mine. 'Then this, said the other, pointing with his whip. 'He is mine, too. Heh, heh, heh! Strike me stiff, but this is too funny! 'Od's wounds! How many are yours! cried the Dulverton squire. 'A dozen. Heh, heh! A round dozen. All those who stand upon this side.
"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."
With a sweep the speaker brought the flat side of his sword down. But, if perchance, he thought that the boy would await the blow he found surprise for that worthy skillfully evaded the weapon's downward thrust. Now then was Sir Pellimore doubly wroth. "Od's zounds, and you need a trouncing. And so shall I give it you, else my dignity would not hold its place."
"Od's, my life, man, what d'ye mean?" cried the master, with not unnatural indignation mingling with his amazement; and notwithstanding Coleridge's support of the application, the shoemaker was turned out of the place, and the would-be apprentice chosen, "against my will," he says, "as one of those destined for the university."
'Od's butterfly! I have sometimes thought of a little book of grace-words and heraldic curses, printed with wide margins on the best of paper. Its covers should be of soft red leather, stamped with little gold flowers. It might be made a birthday book, or a pocket diary 'Daily Invocations. "Coming back to wrathy swearing, I must confess I am sorry to see it decay.
'Od's fish! cried Sir Gervas, as I folded up the letter, 'I have heard Stillingfleet and Tenison, but I never listened to a better sermon. This is a bishop disguised as a carpenter. The crozier would suit his hand better than the plane. But how of our seaman friend? Is he a tarpaulin theologian a divine among the tarry-breeks?
She was afraid; her every instinct bade her slip through the window at which she stood and run from Zoyland Chase. And then she thought of Richard and his danger, and she seemed to gather courage from the reflection of her purpose in this house. Men's voices reached her a laugh, the harsh cawing of Nick Trenchard. "A lady!" she heard him cry. "'Od's heart, Tony!
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.
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