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"Look ye," says he to the governor, rolling his quid of tobacco from one cheek to another "look ye, we're after this and that, and if we don't get it, why, I'll tell you plain, we'll burn them bloody crafts of yours that we've took over yonder, and cut the weasand of every clodpoll aboard of 'em."
You was young yourself once." "Yes," I says; "but I'm a bit older now, Bill, and unless you tell me what your little game is, I shall tell the skipper myself, and the chaps too. Pore old Thomas told 'im to do it, so where's the boy to blame?" "Do you think Jimmy did?" says Bill, screwing up his nose at me. "That little varmint is walking about worth six 'undered quid.
"I don't see any hope o' sneakin' through the line," observed Kenton. "It's not goin' to be dark tonight." "Wa-a-l," Oncle Jazon drawled nonchalantly while he took in a quid of tobacco, "I've been into tighter squeezes 'an this, many a time, an' I got out, too." "Likely enough," said Kenton, still reflecting while his eyes roamed around the circle of savages.
"But, look here, put two quid on Tell-tale; you'll get it all back!" The Oracle does put on "two quid", and doesn't get it all back. Neither does he see any more of this race than he did of the last one in fact, he cheers wildly when the wrong horse is coming in.
An' then he propped hisself up on a pile o' grist, an' thar he read all the sayin's ez war writ in that letter. An' a power o' time it tuk, an' a power o' spellin' an' bodaciously wrastlin' with the alphabit." He laughed lazily, as he turned his quid of tobacco in his mouth, recollecting the turbulence of these linguistic turmoils.
But this proceeding of theirs is much beyond the usual allowance to human weakness; it not only is shocking to our reason, but it provokes our indignation. Quid domini facient, audent cum talia fures?
Great misconceptions have always prevailed about the Roman dinner. It was no accident, but arose out of their whole social economy. This we shall show by running through the history of a Roman day. Ridentem dicere, verum quid vetat? And the course of this review will expose one or two important truths in ancient political economy, which have been wholly overlooked.
But O, my lord, that you could have seen my phoenix Lovel! the very prince and chieftain of the youth of this age; and not destitute of spirit neither I promise you he gave my termagant kinsman a quid pro quo a Rowland for his Oliver, as the vulgar say, alluding to the two celebrated Paladins of Charlemagne."
We had, the day before, buried a quarter-master, nick-named Quid, an old seaman who had destroyed himself by drinking no very uncommon case in His Majesty's service. The corpse of a man who has destroyed his inside by intemperance is generally in a state of putridity immediately after death; and the decay, particularly in warm climates, is very rapid.
And my wife and I both thank you heartily for your kind help. I hope it was not an awful swat. I had to say five because of the train. Good luck to you, and thanks awfully. "Yours faithfully, "CARISBROOK CAREW." If Oswald had known beforehand we should never have made that two quid for Miss Sandal.
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