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"You young cockerel, hatched in Mother Vauquer's coop you, whose heart failed you to clutch old Taillefer's millions when the hardest part of the business was done let me tell you, for your personal safety, that if you do not treat Lucien like the brother you love, you are in our power, while we are not in yours. Silence and submission! or I shall join your game and upset the skittles.
Though not an optimist in the absurd sense of maintaining that life is all beer and skittles, he did really seem to maintain that beer and skittles are the most serious part of it. `What is more immortal, he would cry, `than love and war? Type of all desire and joy beer. Type of all battle and conquest skittles.
But, Lord, there's no dullness at the Dragon! Skittles, cricket, quoits, nine-pins, comic songs, choruses, company round the chimney corner every winter's evening. Any man could be jolly at the Dragon. There's no credit in THAT.
'I'm a bit restless and off my oats, and perhaps you could recommend some sort of sleeping mixture, bromide of potassium. 'Bromide of skittles! Why didn't you tell me this before?
This West Indian trade is not all beer and skittles." "It is very interesting," said Virginia, stifling a yawn. "I hope to see something more of him; he's a new sort and worth studying. And oh, father, is there any chance that we'll have that house-party at our San Blanco estate next Spring? I mean of course you've promised that. What I meant was, will we go on the Tampico?
Merefleet it's all fixed up, and if he won't come along with us he won't go at all, as we've got Quiller's boat!" Seton glanced up, slightly frowning. "My dear Mab," he said, "allow Mr. Merefleet to please himself! The fact that you are willing to put your life in my hands day after day is no guarantee of my skill as a rower, remember." "Oh, skittles!" said Mab irrelevantly.
Brent proposed that they go to a German restaurant and have some beer and skittles; but this struck harshly on Bertha, who still palpitated with the passion of the play. "I reckon we'd better not. The Captain is pretty tired, and, if you don't mind, we'll quit now."
A huge van-load of Cockney tourists, singing a boisterous chorus of the last music-hall song, passed Vixen at a turn of the road, and made a blot on the serene beauty of the scene. They were going to eat lobsters and drink bottled beer and play skittles at Le Tac. Vixen rejoiced when their raucous voices died away on the summer breeze.
But asceticism is not in the least confined to religious asceticism: there is scientific asceticism which asserts that truth is alone satisfying: there is æsthetic asceticism which asserts that art is alone satisfying: there is amatory asceticism which asserts that love is alone satisfying. There is even epicurean asceticism, which asserts that beer and skittles are alone satisfying.
"Right oh," he remarked, when the confidings of the Dentist had got so that you could understand what he was driving at. "Though you're being shy with us now, after all we went through together in the summer, is simply skittles." Then he turned to the polite and attentive others and said "You remember that day we went to Bexley Heath with Albert's uncle?
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