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The foreign gentleman, with patient courtesy entreated pardon; 'But what was tokenz? 'Marks, said Mr Podsnap; 'Signs, you know, Appearances Traces. 'Ah! Of a Orse? inquired the foreign gentleman. 'We call it Horse, said Mr Podsnap, with forbearance. 'In England, Angleterre, England, We Aspirate the "H," and We Say "Horse." Only our Lower Classes Say "Orse!"
'E rides like ha 'orse guards capting, w'en 'e don't 'ave a girl to bother 'im." Would that girl bother him? At first blush, judging from Peter's behavior, the girl was not going to bother him. Peter left his horse at the stable, and taking a hansom, went to his club. There he spent a calm half hour over the evening papers. His dinner was eaten with equal coolness.
I s'pose ye know, sir, that 'ere gent, Mr. Smith, what the 'orse belonged to, is dead?" "No," replied William, "I do not. Pray, how might that have happened?" "Why, you see, sir, he stopped here for about a week, for he was uncommon fond of a spree, and he never reached home after that.
"Well, missy, you are a very wise little miss for your age." "What I think is this," repeated Diana. "Let Orion wide G'eased Lightning and let me wide Pole Star." "But you can do anything with Greased Lightning," said the man. "Why, the 'orse fairly loves you, and Pole Star's a rare and wicious sort of beast." "I aren't fwightened; that aren't me," said Diana, in her usual proud, confident tone.
'Twere just loike a circus procession lorries and guns and we soldjers all a-mixed up. And some of the harses went cruel lame and had to be left behind." "That they did," said a small man in the 19th Hussars who was obviously a Londoner. He was slightly bow-legged and moved with the deliberate gait of the cavalryman on his feet. "Me 'orse got the blooming 'ump with corns."
"An' there was niver a time when they was late home but you made sure the whole lot of 'em was killed," said Murty, grinning. "I'd come in here an' find you wit' all the funerals planned, so to speak " "Ah, go on! At least, I alwuz stayed at home when I was nervis," said Mrs. Brown. "Who was it I've known catch an 'orse in the dark, an' go off to look for 'em when they were a bit late? Not me, Mr.
Is it all right?" "Yes, sir; yes, sir," said the clerk. And old Watkins slid his hand into his breeches pocket, and it came forth filled with gold and silver. "Come, come, mates, we are bound to 'ave a bet on him for the Chesterfield we can afford it now; what say yer, a shilling each?" "Done for a shilling each," said the under-porter; "finest 'orse in training.... What price, Musser Watkins?"
"Midnight the 'orse and trap was 'itched by the little road that ran by the cottage where 'e lived not sixty yards off, it wasn't and I was at it like a good 'un. It was jest the night for such games overcast but a trifle too 'ot, and all round the sky there was summer lightning and presently a thunderstorm. Down it came. First big drops in a sort of fizzle, then 'ail. I kep'on.
And then, Sir, all I can do, I can't get him to wear is at, when he knows in is eart he had a stroke of the sun near Badajoz, which knocked him off his orse, and see how it cut his face. He was so andsome before, Sir." "Betty," said the sergeant, "the doctor is calling you. Do go into the ouse, and don't bother the gentleman.
It took all the grace Job had to see the arrogant boor, with his two hundred and fifty avoirdupois, get Tony to help him mount Bess, and, poking her in the ribs, call out, "What a bloomin' 'orse! Cawn't h'it go!" and ride off toward Lookout Point. It was astonishing, the politeness Andrew Malden assumed; how he overlooked all the gruffness of his guest and treated him like a prince.
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