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Some opposition squib, too, must have been launched, to judge by the following item from an advertisement column of the same date: "a Vindication of the Rights and Privileges of the Commonality of England, in Opposition to what has been advanced by the Author of the Enquiry, or to what may be promulgated by any Ministerial Artifices against the public Cause of Truth and Liberty.
Fool that I was, I thought she wavered, and my heart beat as it never will again. Then, as she turned away, from her hand slipped a little gold-bound purse, and as I picked it up a clipping from a newspaper fluttered out. 'Pon my soul, it was that very scandalous squib of the Maryland Gazette about our duel! I handed it back with a bow.
"An' we did run it, for a while," responded Buck. "But that only goes to show that most young men are chumps we were just about yore age then." Red laughed at the youngster's discomfiture: "That little squib of yourn shore touched her off I reckon we irrigates on yu this time, don't we?" "Th' more th' Kid talks, th' more money he needs," remarked Lanky, placing his glass on the bar.
'It really is nothing very particular, only it is whispered that Squib said something to Lady Clever-ley which made her ring the bell, and that he excused himself to his Lordship by protesting that, from their similarity of dress and manner and strong family likeness, he had mistaken the Countess for her sister. Omnes. 'Well done, Squib! And were you introduced to the right person?
"Pshaw! doctor," replied Colman, sarcastically, "don't be frightened at a squib, when we've been sitting these two hours on a barrel of gunpowder!" Though of a most forgiving nature Goldsmith did not easily forget this ungracious and ill-timed sally.
At first the press had damned Jim Carpenter for opening the road for these horrors, but once their harmlessness had been clearly established, the row had died down and the appearance of an amoeba did not merit over a squib on the inside pages of the daily papers.
'Do you mean, asked Lord Squib, 'when your cabriolet broke down before her door, and she sent out to request that you would make yourself quite at home? 'I mean that fatal day, replied Mr. Annesley. 'I afterwards discovered she had bribed my tiger. 'Do you know Eugenie's sister, St. James? asked Lord Darrell. 'Yes: she is very clever; very popular at Paris.
It is evident from the following amusing squib, which appeared in one of the Annuals for 1832, how far more dependent the country gentleman was upon his country neighbors in those days, when only idle men could run down from town: "Mr.
He tried to take aim at it, shutting the left eye as if he were shooting at a target with a rifle, which caused him to twiddle his gun about as if he were letting off a squib, for the bird darted about as though on purpose to dodge him.
None, however, talked more agreeable nonsense and made a more elegant uproar than the Duke of St. James. 'These young men, whispered Lord Squib to Annesley, 'do not know the value of money. We must teach it them. I know too well; I find it very dear.
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