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Updated: June 3, 2025
He had been, in all senses of the word, a man of fashion; he had won the nickname of "Cupid," and had figured, far beyond the term of youth, in a raffish kind of smart society which the Whigs regarded with a mixture of contempt and horror.
Bring us some tea," said the Honourable John Ruffin lightly; and he went down the passage. He came into the sitting-room briskly, and found the duke sitting in an easy chair, with his silk hat thrust well back on his head, in a fashion which gave him a far from ducal, an even raffish air. "How are you, Ruffin?" he said, with an amiable smile, but in a somewhat nervous and deprecatory tone.
Dignify the mouth and eyes into a head, and still you have nothing wherewith to refute those who shall call the snake tribe naught but heads and tails; a vulgar and raffish condition of life, of pot-house and Tommy-Dod suggestion. And this is why nothing loves a snake. It is not because the snake is feared, but because it is incomprehensible.
A desperate determination gleamed in his eyes. This crowning outrage! He, a nobleman! to suffer himself to be bound ignominiously by some low polisson of a raffish mushroom country! It was inconceivable. "Jamais!" he repeated. "Ah, well!" said Mr. Heatherbloom resignedly. "Nevertheless, I shall make the attempt to do what I propose, and if you resist "
'Divorce him and take up with the Cornishman! replied the raffish washerwoman, exploding into Gargantuan laughter. Done had often thought of Ryder since the night of the troopers' raid on Mrs. Kyley's grog-store, but had seen nothing of him in the meantime. Mike recalled him to his mind again as they were lying out in the moonlight on a Sunday night about two weeks later.
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