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She seized the little man by the collar, the tenderest of all places in gentlemen similarly circumstanced with regard to the ways of life, and giving him a blow, which took effect on his other and hitherto undamaged eye, cried out, I'll teach you to cozen the heir of the Mug, you snivelling, whey-faced ghost of a farthing rushlight!
Then he spoke; and I marvelled at the continued calmness of his voice. "You are my superior officer, so I may not strike you nor draw against you. But you will, I trust, pardon me, my dear cousin, if I tell you that you are a snivelling coward." "Pray, don't hide behind my temporary rank," I answered hotly. "I waive it, gladly.
Bribble's rendering of the service he had the sort of voice that brings out things and was still teeming with ideas about it when finally a wild outburst from the organ made it clear that, whatever snivelling there might be down in the chancel, that excellent wind instrument was, in its Mendelssohnian way, as glad as ever it could be. "Pump, pump, per-um-pump, Pum, Pump, Per-um...."
'And Welsh rarebits, he added reverently. He puffed hard at his cigar. 'Yes, he said. 'Welsh rarebits, too. And because, he shouted wrathfully, 'because, forsooth, she earns an honest living by singing in the chorus of a comic opera, a whole bunch of snivelling idiots will say I have made a fool of myself. Let them! he bellowed, sitting up and glaring at Rollo. 'I say, let them!
He seemed to struggle for speech; at last, without warning, his passion leaped into flame. Like a wild beast he sprang across the table at the Duke the poor snivelling coward who had dared to flay him with his tongue! The old hate fired the new fury as he clutched Gustave.
The fifth form would fag us, and I and some more struck, and we beat 'em. The good fellows left off directly, and the bullies who kept on soon got afraid." "Was Flashman here then?" "Yes; and a dirty, little, snivelling, sneaking fellow he was too. He never dared join us, and used to toady the bullies by offering to fag for them, and peaching against the rest of us."
Why had she not come to him with her story, and asked for money to shut her mouth? Why was she sobbing and snivelling downstairs now, when it was too late? Austin Turold was wrong in supposing that his son had left Cornwall to fly from England.
"What was good enough for them was good enough for him," he would announce at meal-time, in a snivelling tone, when the food happened to be particularly bad. He split the temporary outfit, brought together for the purpose of handling the beef-herd, into factions. He put the "XXX" in worse repute than it already enjoyed—he was, in fact, the discordant spirit of the expedition.
"Of course that tickled the old man to death," she continued. "The Wallings never could make out how I managed to get round him as I did; but it was simply because I was honest with him. They'd come snivelling round, pretending they were anxious about his health; while I wanted his money, and I told him so." The valiant lady turned to the decanter.
I only want to think of you, and if you would try and be a little patient, I am sure that we would understand one another better very soon." "I hope so, my dear," he rejoined dryly, "for your sake as I am not a patient man; let me tell you that. Come, give me a kiss and run back to your mother. I can't bear to have a woman snivelling near me like that."
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