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"I allude to an individual, who has since acquired an infamous notoriety as a thief-taker; but who, in those days, was himself the associate of thieves." "Well, Sir, his name?" "Jonathan Wild." "'Sblood!" cried Jackson, rising, "I can't sit still and hear Mr. Wild, whom I believe to be as honest a gentleman as any in the kingdom, calumniated!"
I'm a gentleman, and bear the king's commission. 'Sblood! some people deserve to have their noses pulled for their impertinence."
These compliments being passed, his uncle halted to the door of his wife's chamber, at which he stood hallooing, "Here's your kinsman, Perry: belike you won't come and bid him welcome." "Lord, Mr. Trunnion," said she, "why will you continually harass me in this manner with your impertinent intrusion?""I harrow you!" replied the commodore: "'sblood!
Nevertheless, he wrestled with these rebellious suggestions with all the reason that Heaven had enabled him to exert; and that being totally overcome, his victorious passion suddenly broke out in this address: "'Sblood! I believe master thinks I have no more stuff in my body than a dried haddock, to turn me adrift in the dark with such a spanker. D'ye think he don't, my dear?"
'Swearing this, that if we fail, the Baron shall need a leech sooner than a bride. 'That stroke must be mine! The Goshawk griped the muscle of Farina's arm till the youth was compelled to slacken it with pain. 'Could you drive a knife through a six-inch wood-wall? I doubt this wild boar wants a harder hit than many a best man could give. 'Sblood! obey, sirrah.
He waited upon me the next morning, and opened his plan. I shrunk from it with becoming modesty; for well as I thought of myself, I felt myself unworthy of such praise. "'Sblood, man!" said he, "no praise at all. You don't imagine that I think you all this. I only want the public to think so. Nothing so easy as gulling the public if you only set up a prodigy.
And I have made such arrangements that at my decease tardy justice will be done my injured nephew." "You have made no such arrangements as will compromise me, I hope, Sir Rowland?" said Wild, hastily. "While I live you are safe," rejoined Trenchard; "after my death I can answer for nothing." "'Sblood!" exclaimed Wild, uneasily. "This alters the case materially.
"Nor have I. Then why should we fear the robber?" "Perhaps those who are sitting inside the carriage?" "Her ladyship is sitting within and is now asleep. If I awake her and frighten her, and then we don't find the highwayman she will break the whip over my back. Get up here. It will be good to travel as far as Lankadomb in a carriage, 'sblood."
But as to Ravenswood he has kept no terms with me, I'll keep none with him; if I CAN win this girl from him, I WILL win her." "Win her! 'sblood, you SHALL win her, point, quint, and quatorze, my king of trumps; you shall pique, repique, and capot him." "Prithee, stop thy gambling cant for one instant," said Bucklaw.
'Sblood! why didn't nature clap a pair of long ears and a tail upon me, that I might be a real ass, and champ thistles on some common, independent of my fellow-creatures? Would I were a worm, that I might creep into the earth, and thatch my habitation with a single straw; or rather a wasp or a viper, that I might make the rascally world feel my resentment.
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