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'When John said, if he had been so happy as to win your affections and possess your heart, it come into my head to turn round upon him with "Win her affections and possess her heart! Mew says the cat, Quack quack says the duck, and Bow-wow-wow says the dog." I couldn't tell you how it come into my head or where from, but it had so much the sound of a rasper that I own to you it astonished myself.
"Walk up, gen'lemen, walk up! the ole firm! Rasper? Yessir twenty to one bar two! Twenty to one bar two! Bob? What price, Bob? Even money, sir no, not a penny longer, couldn't do it! Red Wull? 'oo says Red Wull?" On the far side the stream is clustered about the starting flag the finest array of sheep-dogs ever seen together.
She's a deuced clever woman. To hear her talk broken English when the squire's wife called here the other day was as good as a play. Everybody hereabouts believes she's a Frenchwoman; but then they're all country-people, and they'll believe anything. Sponge and Rasper and Robinson are all London born, especially Rasper, and London people believe nothing. They only give credit.
The Venus, blinded with blood, had her hold at last; and never but once in a long life of battles had she let go; Rasper, his breath coming in rattles, had him horribly by the loins; while a dozen other devils with red eyes and wrinkled nostrils clung still. Long odds! And down he went, smothered beneath the weight of numbers, yet struggled up again.
Grand piano, harp, sketch-book; and huge portfolio. There's Sponge, and Rasper, and Robinson, all coming down by the mid-day train to lunch with me and my new wife, the Montmorenci, as they imagine. It's impossible that Susan can keep up such a delusion, and especially as she insists on talking English. She says her French is so vulgar. But there!
Cad Prog roared as loud as he could, so did his little sister, so did the baby, so did Jimmy Bates, so did Joe Bobbins, so did Harry Rasper, so did I. I did not care what happened; I went for Cad Prog, and have a vague idea of my hand and his nose being near together, and louder yells still.
The field, as usual, divided into two parts, the soft riders and the hard ones the soft riders going by the fields, the hard riders by the road. Messrs. Spraggon, Sponge, Slapp, Quilter, Rasper, Crasher, Smasher, and some half-dozen more, bustled after Bragg; while the worthy master Mr. Puffington, Lumpleg, Washball, Crane, Guano, Shirker, and very many others, came pounding along the lane.
If you take old Josh at all, you take him as you find him; and a devilish rusty, old rasper, of a close-toothed, J. B. file, you do find him. Dombey, said the Major, 'your wife's mother is on the move, Sir. 'I fear, returned Mr Dombey, with much philosophy, 'that Mrs Skewton is shaken. 'Shaken, Dombey! said the Major. 'Smashed!
I was only in fun, but I see now that it was taking a liberty. It's a dreadful come-down from the Montmorenci, to be sure: still, one must marry somebody within seven days. But then, again, I've written such flaming accounts of the other one to all my friends. I've asked Sponge and Rasper and Robinson to come down, and see us after the honeymoon at "the Tamarisks," my little place near Dover.
This valiant determination put an end to Bates's wavering, and with a rueful face he joined us. "Now, mind," said Rasper, "the first you see!" "Well," exclaimed I, starting suddenly to run, "that's Cad Prog, the butcher-boy, there; come along." So it was! Of all our enemies Cad Prog was the most truculent, and most feared.
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