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Whether willingly or reluctantly, the preachers sit upon the platform and smile while Billy thus slangs the devil; and being themselves, poor fellows, at their wits end to draw the crowd, they watch and see how he does it, and then return to their own churches and try the same stunt; so the manners of the baseball diamond spread like a contagion.
"Now, if this is not too much!" cried Nabbem, crossly; "you objects to go in a cart like the rest of your profession; and when I puts myself out of the way to obleedgie you with a shay, you slangs I for it!" "Peace, good Nabbem!" said Augustus, with a sage's dignity; "you must allow a little bad humour in men so unhappily situated as we are." The soft answer turneth away wrath.
While he worked his tongue flew far and fast over the camp slang the slangs of all nations came easy to him in voluble conversation with the Chasseur next, who was making a fan out of feathers that any Peeress might have signaled with at the Opera.
Her sailor son is going to publish a Journal of a Tour, including the United States and Niagara. To C.S. EDGEWORTH. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, April 12, 1827. Now I have done all my agent business, I will tell you what Mr. Hope, in a letter I had from him this morning, says of Almack's. "It might have been a pretty thing, but I think it but a poor one. Of all slangs, that of fashion is easiest overdone.
All slangs and twangs are objectionable everywhere, but the slang and twang of the conventicle as bad in its way as that of the House of Commons, and nothing worse can be said of it should be studiously avoided under such circumstances as I describe. The avoidance was not complete on this occasion.
No such Language as Rommany. Hedgehogs. The Witch Element in Gipsy Life. Jackdaws and Dogs. Their Uses. Lurchers and Poachers. A Gipsy Camp. The Ancient Henry. I am mistaken for a Magistrate or Policeman. Gipsies of Three Grades. The Slangs. Jim and the Twigs. Beer rained from Heaven. Fortune-telling. A golden Opportunity to live at my Ease. Petulamengro. I hear of a New York Friend.
There was deep sincerity in this reply, as I had more than once contributed to the fees for the aforesaid slangs, which somehow or other were invariably refused to the applicant.
I must say that you are the best mimic of your age I ever saw, and I'm sure Lady Battersby will think so too. That is Sir Charles to the very life. But with all that, you must know he's a mighty pleasant, fashionable young man when you come to know him, and has a great deal of sense under all that, and is of a very good family the Slangs, you know.
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