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Updated: May 16, 2025
"Give these brave gentlemen a writing to your mother, and she will pay; and you will let us free then, gentlemen won't you?" "When the money's paid, yes," said the leader, Mr. Brock. "Oh, in course," echoed the tall man with the halberd. "What's a thrifling detintion, my dear?" continued he, addressing Hayes. "We'll amuse you in your absence, and drink to the health of your pretty wife here."
And having stated that it was his firm intention to "dthraw next Sathurday, I give ye me secred word and honour next Sathurday, the fourteenth, when ye'll see the money will be handed over to me at Coutts's, the very instant I present the cheque," the Captain would not unfrequently propose to borrow a half-crown of his friend until the arrival of that day of Greek Calends, when, on the honour of an officer and gentleman, he would repee the thrifling obligetion.
"Am I to understand, sir, that the young gentleman, your nephew, and whom I have fosthered and cherished as the son of me bosom, is an imposther who has been thrifling with the affections of me beloved child?" exclaimed the General, with an outbreak of wrath.
"Are ye thrifling with the feelings of a father and a gentleman?" "I am telling you the honest truth," said Major Pendennis. "Every shilling my brother had, he left to his widow: with a partial reversion, it is true, to the boy. But she is a young woman, and may marry if he offends her or she may outlive him, for she comes of an uncommonly long-lived family.
Here I set out to hunt for them, and when they were as good as found I turn my back upon them, and think only of my own safety." "Ye are excoosable, since ye have been upsit by the thrifling occurrences that have been going on this day."
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