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"You tam lowland scoon'rel!" cries he, and hit me a buffet on the jaw with his closed fist. I paid him as good or better on the return; whereupon he stepped a little back and took off his hat to me decorously. "Enough plows I think," says he. "I will be the offended shentleman, for who effer heard of such suffeeciency as tell a shentlemans that is the king's officer he cannae speak Cot's English?
Cibot's remark, "that we will talk the thing over; and if the good shentleman will take an annuity, of fifty thousand francsh, I will shtand a hamper of wine, if " "Fifty thousand francs!" interrupted the doctor; "what are you thinking about? Why, if the good man is so well off as that, with me in attendance, and Mme.
Roderick drove on also in silence, although much surprised that the "young shentleman" had not returned with the "leddy." But that was none of his business "what-e-ver." As the little old lady brooded over the matter, she resolved to say nothing of the meeting to Milly.
With that the laughter grew louder, and another German, evidently good-naturedly desirous to relieve Walter's embarrassment, spoke, turning as he did so to the first speaker: "Dat vasn't no sign de young shentlemans vas dumb; he don't can't help it; he t'ot dey vas life beoples." "Nefer you mine dose silly fellows, young shentleman, dey doan' know noddings."
"He warn't then, Sir," said Tom, not understanding him, "for he was only a sargeant like me at that time, but he is now, for he is an officer." "No, no," said Peter, "the king can make an offisher, but she can't make a shentleman. She took the oyster hern ainsel, and gave you the shell."
'Do you ken who you had wi' you t' other night? 'Naa, but he was a pleesant shentleman. 'It was Tennyson, the poet. 'An' what may he be? 'Oh, he is the writer o' verses such as you see i' the papers. 'Noo, to think o' that, jest a pooblic writer, an' I gied him ma best bedroom! Of Mrs. Tennyson, however, the landlord remarked, 'Oh, but she was an angel!
A sailor near at hand came forward and offered his assistance. And between the two the professor was safely taken down to the second cabin and deposited in his berth. A German Jew, who shared the professor's stateroom, saw the party coming, and exclaimed to a fellow-passenger: "Tere's tat young shentleman mit his olt man again. Fader Abraham! he ish von shentleman; von drue shentleman!"
Yonder individual, who strolls about with his hands behind him, supporting his brown coat lappets, undersized, and who looks anything but what he is, is the king of the light weights, so called, Randall! the terrible Randall, who has Irish blood in his veins; not the better for that, nor the worse; and not far from him is his last antagonist, Ned Turner, who, though beaten by him, still thinks himself as good a man, in which he is, perhaps, right, for it was a near thing; and 'a better shentleman, in which he is quite right, for he is a Welshman.
"She don't want to say nothin' disrespectable," said Peter, "against her friend, but she was no shentleman for all tat." "He is now," said Tom again, with an air of triumph. "He is an hofficer, and dines at the mess. I don't suppose he'd be seen with me now, for it's agen the rules of the service, but he is the best friend I have in the world."
"I 'ate them ways," said Mr. Hart. "I never deal with a shentleman if he's, to say drunk. Of course it comes in my way, but I never does." Now there was heard a sound of steps on the stairs, and Mr. Tyrrwhit rose from his chair so as to perform the duty of master of the ceremonies to the gentlemen who were expected. Augustus Scarborough entered the room, followed by Mr. Barry.
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