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No kindly angel whispered to her that she should go in, now, for "swounds and vapours," and thus bolster up the protectiveness that had come to birth within him that night. She knew nothing of "swounds and vapours." The rather hard women on Lashnagar were never ill and weak until they were ready to drop into death. Aunt Janet had never been weak save in the matter of the acid drops.
Frantic with fear he was going to fetch Mrs. Twist when she sat up rather shakily and looked at him. "I suppose that's what you've been expecting me to do faint all over the place swounds and vapours," she said, laughing faintly. "Louis, it was a horrible feeling." "Marcella," he sobbed, kissing her hands, kneeling beside her desperate in his self-abasement. "I thought I'd killed you."
"Your prince, madam," he said, "but also your very humble servant. My Court is a small one, and you are as important and welcome an addition to it as is your distinguished father to my army. Swounds, Colonel," turning to him with a merry smile, "I shall put a flea in his lordship's ear when I see him at Derby. He never so much as mentioned your daughter.
I am willing to suppose, she repeated, stopping him by a gesture as he tried to speak, 'that you are in earnest for the time, my lord, in desiring to make me your wife, strange and sudden as the desire appears. It is a great honour, but it is one which I must as earnestly and positively decline. 'Why? he cried, gaping, and then, 'O 'swounds, ma'am, you don't mean it? he continued piteously.
His lordship and I shall be glad to have your explanation of how you came to permit that departure." "Permit?" quoth Blood. "I ordered it." The answer left Bishop speechless for a moment. Then: "You ordered it?" he said in accents of unbelief, whilst Lord Julian raised his eyebrows. "'Swounds! Perhaps you'll explain yourself? Whither has Wolverstone gone?" "To Tortuga.
Shall we follow so deplorable an example?" "You'll not impute that the fault lay with my father," cried the other, with a show of ready anger. "I impute nothing, lad. I cry shame upon them both." "'Swounds!" swore Master Peter. "Do you malign the dead?" "If I do, I malign them both. But I do not. I no more than condemn a fault that both must acknowledge could they return to life."
"For ten per cent, Oliver," interrupted Master Freake. "Nonsense! Wisely and generously, I repeat," said Sir James warmly. "For ten per cent on good security, I repeat," answered Master Freake gravely. "Damn your ten per cent!" "Looks like it, and the security into the bargain!" said Master Freake very quickly. "Swounds! that's just it!" said Sir James.
"So, Gregory," he grumbled for greeting, "it was on a fool's errand you sent me, after all. That knave, your messenger, found me in London at last when I had outworn my welcome at Whitehall. But, 'swounds, man," he cried, remarking the pallor, of his brother's face, "what ails thee?" "I have news for you, Joseph," answered Gregory, in a voice that shook. "It is not Cynthia?" he inquired.
"Satisfy yourselves?" echoed the other, in tones of deep amazement. "What better satisfaction can I afford you than my word? 'Swounds, sir jackanapes," he added, in a roar that sent the lieutenant back a pace as though he had been struck, "am I to take it that your errand is a trumped-up business to affront me?
Tone down the faith and rapture of my whole life, until it is what the reading public will find natural! And tone down the Liebes-Tod and tone down the Choral Symphony and Epipsychidion and King Lear! Swounds, show me what thou'lt do: Woo't weep? Woo't fight? Woo't fast? Woo't tear thyself? Woo't drink up eisel? Eat a crocodile? I'll do't. Dost thou come here to whine?
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