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Whereupon Mr Tallboys commenced cuffing the poor wretch right and left, who received so many swinging boxes of the ear that he was soon reduced to merely pitiful plaints of "Oh dear! such inhumanity I purtest oh dear! must I get up? I can't, indeed."
"Going to the top, I suppose," said Mark, smiling at the man's face, though he could not help feeling some slight trepidation as strange volcanic suggestions of what was beneath them in the mountain kept manifesting themselves at every step. "Oh, all right!" said Billy in a tone of resignation; "but I do purtest, if I am to die, agin being biled."
We will settle this matter by-and-bye," cried Vanslyperken, pouring down with indignation the proffered glass. "Now, Susan, don't ill-treat Mr Vanslyperken: I purtest against all ill-treatment." "Ill-treat, Mrs Salisbury! I am only giving him a lesson in purliteness."
I purtest no longer, Mr Tallboys; death before dishonour. I'm a gentleman, damme!" At all events, the swell was not a very courageous gentleman, for he trembled most exceedingly as he pointed his pistol. The gunner gave the word, as if he were exercising the great guns on board ship. "Cock your locks!" "Take good aim at the object!" "Fire!" "Stop your vents!"
Biggs." "So you would have a shot without receiving one?" cried Gascoigne. "The fact is that this fellow's a confounded coward." At this affront, Mr. Easthupp rallied, and accepted the pistol offered by the gunner. "You 'ear those words, Mr. Biggs? Pretty language to use to a gentleman! I purtest no longer, Mr. Tallboys. Death before dishonour I'm a gentleman!"
"Vel, gentlemen, I purtest against these proceedings," replied Mr Easthupp; "I came here to have satisfaction from Mr Easy, and not to be fired at by Mr Biggs." "Don't you have satisfaction when you fire at Mr Easy?" replied the gunner; "what more would you have?" "I purtest against Mr Biggs firing at me."
We will settle this matter by-and-by," cried Vanslyperken, pouring down with indignation the proffered glass. "Now, Susan, don't ill-treat Mr Vanslyperken: I purtest against all ill-treatment." "Ill-treat, Mrs Salisbury! I am only giving him a lesson in purliteness."
Whereupon Mr Tallboys commenced cuffing the poor wretch right and left, who received so many swinging boxes of the ear, that he was soon reduced to merely pitiful plaints of "Oh, dear! such inhumanity I purtest oh, dear! must I get up? I can't, indeed."
I purtest no longer, Mr Tallboys; death before dishonour. I'm a gentleman, damme!" At all events, the swell was not a very courageous gentleman, for he trembled most exceedingly as he pointed his pistol. The gunner gave the word, as if he were exercising the great guns on board ship. "Cock your locks!" "Take good aim at the object!" "Fire!" "Stop your vents!"
"Vel, gentlemen, I purtest against these proceedings," replied Mr Easthupp; "I came here to have satisfaction from Mr Easy, and not to be fired at by Mr Biggs." "Don't you have satisfaction when you fire at Mr Easy," replied the gunner; "what more would you have?" "I purtest against Mr Biggs firing at me."