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The one merit of the delineation that it is a portrait of a delicate Christian gentleman is sadly marred by the vulgar smartness of Arthur's repartees with the scampish New-Yorker. A victory in such a contest was by no means necessary to vindicate the hero's superiority; and if he so far forgot himself as to engage at all in the degrading warfare, a defeat would have been more creditable.
He mused that if he had another chance he would show her how disagreeable or detestable or scampish he was under some circumstances. He reflected ruefully that the complacence with which he had accepted the comradeship of the belle of the voyage might have been somewhat overdone. Perhaps he had got a little out of proportion.
I asked very quietly; for the man was too small to quarrel with: yet knowing Lorna to be a "papist," as we choose to call them though they might as well call us "kingists," after the head of our Church I thought that this scurvy scampish knave might show them the way to the place he mentioned, unless his courage failed him.
'Why so, thou little varlet? I asked very quietly; for the man was too small to quarrel with: yet knowing Lorna to be a 'papist, as we choose to call them though they might as well call us 'kingists, after the head of our Church I thought that this scurvy scampish knave might show them the way to the place he mentioned, unless his courage failed him.
Nevertheless they obtained for him a little money, and among literary men some reputation. Now Audley Egerton came into power, and got him, though with great difficulty, for there were many prejudices against this scampish, harum-scarum son of the Muses, a place in a public office. He kept it about a month, and then voluntarily resigned it.
She knew, too, all about his male companions, from the flash young fellow-commoner from Downshire, who had a saddle-horse and a mounted groom waiting for him every day after morning lecture, down to that scampish Joe Atlee, with whose scrapes and eccentricities he filled many an idle hour.
However, as she turned to go, she introduced Florent to the young artist. "This gentleman, it seems, has just come from a distance," said she. "He feels quite lost in your scampish Paris. I dare say you might be of service to him." Then she at last took her departure, feeling pleased at having left the two men together. Claude looked at Florent with a feeling of interest.
"Yes; I heard him tell the captain that you were very quick, and would be a good navigator but I can't get over the loss of poor Tommy Dott; he was a little scampish, that's sartin, but still he was a merry, kind-hearted boy too good for the sharks, at all events. You must feel his loss, Mr Keene, for you were always together." "No, I don't, Bob," replied I.
He ran away from his first boarding-school, at the age of eleven or twelve, getting up a masquerade of goblins, by the aid of some scampish schoolfellows, which frightened the monkish watchmen of the gates away from their posts, nearly dead with terror.
Nevertheless they obtained for him a little money, and among literary men some reputation. Now Audley Egerton came into power, and got him, though with great difficulty, for there were many prejudices against this scampish, harum-scarum son of the Muses, a place in a public office. He kept it about a month, and then voluntarily resigned it.
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