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After five minutes I says, 'Are you sure you don't notice nothin, William? I observed a risin' color in his face. "'U-m-m y-a-as, says he most sarcastical; 'I notice somethin', Ezekiel a strong smell of peppermint not escaped you, perhaps?
Johnson seldom encouraged general censure of any profession ; but he was willing to allow a due share of merit to the various departments necessary in civilised life. In a splenetick, sarcastical, or jocular frame, however, he would sometimes utter a pointed saying of that nature. One instance has been mentioned , where he gave a sudden satirical stroke to the character of an attorney.
"'Why, I says, 'wont you be here to-morrow? "'Oh, yes, he says, 'we'll be here to-morrow, but you wont. "'Is that so? I says, sarcastical. 'Coming in, I says, 'I thought I seen the word Welcome on the doormat. "'Going out, he says, 'you'll notice that, spelled backward, it's a French word signifying Mind Your Step.
The roughness, indeed, which sometimes appeared in his manners, was more striking to me now, from my having been accustomed to the studied smooth complying habits of the Continent; and I clearly recognised in him, not without respect for his honest conscientious zeal, the same indignant and sarcastical mode of treating every attempt to unhinge or weaken good principles.
If her heart attained a moment's intermission upon the subject, her female attendant was sure, by some sly hint or sarcastical remark, to put a speedy termination to her tranquillity. She felt herself, as she afterwards remarked, alone, uninstructed, just broken loose, as it were, from the trammels of infancy, without one single creature to concern himself in her fate.
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