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Pegtop was very fond of this word, "massa," and could never get accustomed to any other title used by the whites. "Listen, friend," said I to Pegtop, "now that you have got the guns; is your master really going to fight?" The negro stood still, rolling his eyes, and expressing in his countenance the greatest astonishment. "Massa Bangs fight! Golly, massa, you jestin? Massa Bangs fight?
Tank you, Massa Captain." And forthwith he and the other two black servants in attendance on Wagtail and Gelid, each seized his two muskets out of the arm chest, with the corresponding ammunition, and, like so many sable Robinson Crusoes, were stumping aft, when I again accosted the aforesaid Pegtop. "I say, my man, now since you have got the muskets, does your master really intend to fight?"
"Granted," I said; "but a teal has not a loaded musket in its claws, a Spanish buccaneer may have a small difference, Master Pegtop, that?" "None at all, master," chimed in Pegtop, "very energetically myshef, Gabriel Pegtop, Christian man as me is, am one of de Falmouth black shot.
However, hand me the brandy bottle; and, Pegtop, spate me that black jack that you are rinsing so. Useful commodity, a cup of this kind." here our friend dashed in a large qualifier of cognac, "it not only conceals the quality of the water, for you can sometimes perceive the animalculae hereabouts without a microscope, but also the strength of the libation.
"With the addition of darling?" "No, that is an addition of my own. But I can remove it if you like." "I don't like," said Miles, sitting down and pulling her towards him, "come and talk to me, Pegtop." "I won't be called Pegtop, and as to talking, I have far too much work to do. The lesson will soon be over, and some of the pupils have to take these accounts home.
Grammar, gerund-grinding, the tyranny of the Lexicon and the Dictionary, had got the schoolboys of England in their grasp, and the boy "was suffocated with the nonsense of grammarians, overwhelmed with every species of difficulty disproportionate to his age, and driven by despair to pegtop or marbles"; while the British Parent stood and spoke thus with himself: "Have I read through Lilly?
'Your daughter is very ill, I'm afraid, said I. 'Ay she'll be costin' me a handful, like her mother did, said Pegtop. 'I hope her room is comfortable, poor thing. 'Ay, that's it; she be comfortable enough, I warrant more nor I. It be all Meg, and nout o' Dickon. 'When did her illness commence? I asked. 'Day the mare wor shod Saturday.
Mr Bang, as I have said, had rallied by this time, and with the tact of a gentleman, appeared to have forgotten whether his new ally was black, blue, or green, while the claret, stimulating him into self possession, was evaporating in broken French. But his man Pegtop had been pushed off his balance altogether; his equanimity was utterly gone.
Correct me but I always understood that the act so performed by skittish humans with glimpses of lingerie appealed to you in virtue of its exhibitionististicicity. In a word. Hippogriff. Am I right? BLOOM: She is rather lean. Well observed and those pannier pockets of the skirt and slightly pegtop effect are devised to suggest bunchiness of hip.
"Pegtop, you scoundrel," quoth massa Aaron, "don't you hear what Captain Cringle says, sir?" "Oh yes, massa;" and thereupon the sable valet brought me a bottle of fish sauce, which he endeavoured to pour into my wineglass. All this while Eugenie and the aide de camp were playing the agreeable and in very good taste, too, let me tell you.
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