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The morrow dawned auspiciously, very cloudy with smartish drives of wind and rain. Confined to the dingy squalor of his hotel, how gladly would the artist, it was felt, seek the refined cheer of one of our best homes where he would be enlivened by an hour or so of contact with our most cultivated people.
We'll run along to Winchester, where I have a little house at Kingsworthy, just outside the city, and where we can lie low comfortably for a bit." "But shan't we be followed by those men?" I asked apprehensively. "Followed by them? Oh dear no!" he laughed. "Of course, you don't understand, Ewart. They all three belong to us. We've played a smartish game upon the jeweller, haven't we?
Do you remember, Ben, doing like services for me in Spain, years ago, when you insisted on leaving the ship, and turning courier for us all?" "Don't I, now?" said Ben, and his face brightened all over. "Didn't Ben Benson? He was a smartish youngster then. Didn't he use to scour their skillets and sasepans, to git the garlic out on 'em?
Here, youngster, run down to the surgeon, and let him know that I wish a report of the killed and wounded." By degrees, he talked more, and at last came up to me. "This has been rather smartish, Mr Simple." "Very smart indeed, sir," replied I; and then turned away to give directions. "Maintop there, send down the hauling line on the starboard side." "Ay, ay, sir."
I wasn't very gay for a bit, but I had a good horse under me, another alongside, a smartish lot of cash in notes and gold, some bank deposits too, and all the world before me. My dart now was to make my way to Willaroon and look sharp about it. My chance of getting through was none too good, but I settled to ride a deal at night and camp by day.
Next day, Dickens had express Audience, "Berlin, Tuesday 6th:" a smartish, somewhat flurried Colloquy with the King; which, well abridged, may stand as follows: DICKENS.... "Indivisibility of the Austrian Monarchy, Sire!" KING. "Indivisibility? What do you mean?" DICKENS. "The maintenance of the Pragmatic Sanction." KING. "Do you intend to support it? I hope not; for such is not my intention."
Marsh started up in a fury, and brought her whip down on the table with a smartish cut. "You little heartless villain!" she screamed. "Is this, the way you play upon people: bringing me from my home to console a maniac, and, instead of that, you are only what you always were, a spendthrift and a scamp? Finely they will laugh at me."
Two things are certain, that his father never had a title at all, and that he himself made a large fortune in sulphur and paving stones, so that his only daughter is much of an heiress, and his elderly widow has a handsome income to spend as she pleases, owns in Palermo a fine palace historical in other hands is the possessor of a smartish yacht, a cutter of thirty tons or so, goes to Paris once and to Monte Carlo twice in every year, brings her own carriage to Sorrento in the summer, and lives altogether in a luxurious and highly correct manner.
Here, youngster, run down to the surgeon, and let him know that I wish a report of the killed and wounded." By degrees he talked more, and at last came up to me, "This has been rather smartish, Mr Simple." "Very smart indeed, sir," replied I, and then turned away to give directions. "Maintop there, send down the hauling line on the starboard side." "Ay, ay, sir."
But he very rarely expresses his enthusiasm in superlatives: "a usefulish lot," and "a smartish few," meaning in Worcestershire "a very good lot," and "a great many," is about the limit to which he will commit himself.
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