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But he would have submitted to any amount of scragging from them because they were his friends and because he loved Gilbert and because they, too, in their turn submitted to being scragged. When Henry had been at Rumpell's for a year, Ninian Graham asked him to spend the Easter holidays at his home in Devonshire. "I'll get my mater to write and ask you," he said. Henry hesitated.
I have no fancy to be scragged yet." "Poor lad!" the father muttered; "poor lad!" "They haven't caught me yet," said Ezra. "If they did I question whether they could do much. They couldn't hang three for the death of one. You would have to swing, and that's about all." About two in the morning they saw a line of lights, which the fisherman informed them was from the town of Worthing.
I am staunch through thick and thin, and would die without saying a word that would compromise anybody I wish well to. Stick to me as a soul sticks to the Devil, and you will find the benefit of it. I promised your poor Auguste that you should be happy; he wanted to make you a rich woman, and he got scragged for your sake. "Don't cry; listen to me.
Now it doesn't matter a twopenny cuss to me about old Kitely I don't care if he was scragged twice over I've no doubt he deserved it. But it'll matter a lot to M. & C. if they're found out. I can touch that five hundred easy as winking but you take my meaning? I daresay M. & C. 'ud run to five thousand if I kept my tongue still. What?" But Stoner knew at once that Myler disapproved.
"Yes, guilty." It was Irene speaking in that serene voice, with that unreached air which had maddened him so often; and, carried beyond himself, he cried: "You are a devil" "Go out! Leave this house, or I'll do you an injury." That fellow to talk of injuries! Did he know how near his throat was to being scragged? "A trustee," he said, "embezzling trust property!
Then they spurred across the rough boggy land, farther away than the shaft was. Here the ground lay jagged and shaggy, wrought up with high tufts of reed, or scragged with stunted brushwood. It is not to be marvelled at that amid such place as this, for the first time visited, the horses were a little skeary; and their riders partook of the feeling, as all good riders do.
That boy's death has turned your brain." "And there is Theodore, who was just going to have his hair cropped to be scragged at four this afternoon!" cried Jacques Collin. "Well, it is a notion! We shall end our days as honest folks in a fine property and a delightful climate in Touraine." "What was to become of me? Lucien has taken my soul with him, and all my joy in life.
Lobkins, still possessed by the gloomy idea she had conjured up, repeated, "Ah, Dummie, if little Paul should be scragged!" Dummie, withdrawing the pipe from his mouth, heaved a sympathizing puff, but remained silent; and Mrs. Lobkins, turning to Paul, who stood with mouth open and ears erect at this boding ejaculation, said, "Dost think, Paul, they'd have the heart to hang thee?"
So, you see, ven Judy died, and Harry was scragged, I vas the only von living who vas up to the secret; and vhen Mother Lob vas a taking a drop to comfort her vhen Judy vent off, I hopens a great box in which poor Judy kept her duds and rattletraps, and surely I finds at the bottom of the box hever so many letters and sick like, for I knew as 'ow they vas there; so I vhips these off and carries 'em 'ome with me, and soon arter, Mother Lob sold me the box o' duds for two quids 'cause vy?
"What's it you want, ma'am, and what you goin' to pay fer it?" She spoke quite calmly, almost casually. "I want you to kill a man," she answered. The three of them stared at her and then the big bruiser laughed. "Who d'you want scragged?" he said, derisively. Solange looked steadily at Banker. "Louisiana!" she answered, clearly. But old Jim turned pale and showed his rat's teeth.
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