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Updated: May 31, 2025
"Hullo!" was her greeting. "Hope I haven't kept you waiting. I've had a busy afternoon helping my chief to give you and The Right Honourable Hayes Matheson a good slanging." "Oh, you have, have you?" The grey eyes were growing more and more approving, as he noted each detail most likely to appeal to a man who had made a study of women for many years.
Waffles, as we said before, had made himself conspicuous towards the close of Mr. Slocdolager's reign, chiefly by his dashing costume, his reckless riding, and his off-hand way of blowing up and slanging people. Indeed, a stranger would have taken him for the master, a delusion that was heightened by his riding with a formidable-looking sherry-case, in the shape of a horn, at his saddle.
He had met with slanging and bullying, indifference and brutality of manner, but he had not met with condescension. "I hope you're well, Mrs. Hibblethwaite," he answered. "You look it." "I deceive ma looks a good bit, sir," she answered. "Mony a day ma legs is nigh as bad as Susan's." "Tha 'rt jealous o' Susan's legs," barked out a sharp voice from a corner by the fire.
The couples were jostling and slanging each other vociferously. The girls were screaming for the pleasure of making a noise. The men drinking were beating time on the tables with their fists. At any other time such ponderous coarse joy would have disgusted Anna: but now she loved it: she had taken off her hat and was watching eagerly.
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