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"Those Battersea digs," he told her. They had no words. At Queen's Road station gloomily they alighted; silently laboured to the house of Mrs. Pinking. George answered her surprise. "Miss Humfray will have these rooms again, Mrs. Pinking, if you will be so kind; and I " He checked. "Could you let us have some tea, Mrs. Pinking? Afterwards I'll have a talk with you.
"'Tis not like thee so to lose thy wits, Roxholm," Warbeck said, his hand on his arm, "but thou hast lost them this once surely. 'Tis no work for the sword of a gentleman pinking foul-mouthed boasters in a coffee-house. Know you who he is?" "Damnation, No!" thundered Roxholm, striding on more fiercely still. "'Tis the new dandy, Sir John Oxon," said Warbeck.
It ought to have been his master, that's all I can say to it, and I wish it had." "How have you settled it, sir?" "Settled what?" "The fight, sir." "D n me, Jack, I haven't settled it at all." "That's bad, sir." "I know it is; but it shall be settled for all that, I can tell him, let him vapour as much as he may about pinking me, and one thing and another." "Pinking you, sir?" "Yes.
As an instance of the odd accidents that affect the Birmingham trade, about three years ago, when flounces were in fashion, a great demand sprang up for pinking irons, previously only used for ornamenting the hems of shrouds. A workman informed the correspondent of the Morning Chronicle that he had earned about 3 pounds a week for two years at making them.
I know we could have had a much more exciting picture than either of those we present of Harry this month, and the lad, with his hair dishevelled, raging about the room flamberge au vent, and pinking the affrighted innkeeper and chaplain, would have afforded a good subject for the pencil. But oh, to think of him stumbling over a stool, and prostrated by an enemy who has stole away his brains!
An English squire excelling his fellows at hazardous leaps in public, he was additionally a polished whisperer, a lively dialoguer, one for witty bouts, with something in him capacity for a drive and dig or two beyond mere wit, as they soon learned who called up his reserves, and had a bosom for pinking. So much for his ideal of himself.
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