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"The captain was awful mad when he found me after we had got clear up the North River. He gave me a good thrashing and then said he was going to drop me overboard. But he didn't and I stayed on board all that season, driving mules and being sworn at and kicked and trounced like any other boy on the canal. I sometimes wonder why I didn't wear out.
"Ought to be soundly trounced," declared the judge. "That's what I always say." "This is the worst yet," continued Mrs. Penniman. She liked the suspense she had created. With an unerring gift for oral narrative, she toyed with this. She must first tell how she got it. "You know that georgette waist Mrs. Ed Seaver is having?" "Have they done something awful?" Winona demanded.
She stopped at Hopewell Drugg's store, which was a rendezvous for the male gossips of the town, and Walky was holding forth upon the subject uppermost in the public mind: "Them consarned lettle skeezicks I'd ha' trounced the hull on 'em if they'd been mine." "How would you have felt, Mr. Dexter, if they really were yours?" asked Janice, who had been talking to 'Rill and Nelson Haley.
And yet I am at a loss to conceive any more convincing proof they could have given of their Providence, than if they had trounced you as you deserve. But no doubt they are from home t'other side of Oceanus, possibly, on a visit to 'the blameless Ethiopians. We know they have a way of going there to dinner, self-invited sometimes. Ti. What answer is possible to such ribaldry? Da.
"What is the matter, Will?" he asked. I told him. "Don't let such fancies get hold of your mind, man," he answered. "You'll keep your two legs and get safely on shore one of these days, when we have well trounced the mounseers. Ever bear in mind that `there's a sweet little cherub who sits up aloft, to take care of the life of poor Jack.
It was accepted. For that sum Joan of Arc, the Savior of France, was sold; sold to her enemies; to the enemies of her country; enemies who had lashed and thrashed and thumped and trounced France for a century and made holiday sport of it; enemies who had forgotten, years and years ago, what a Frenchman's face was like, so used were they to seeing nothing but his back; enemies whom she had whipped, whom she had cowed, whom she had taught to respect French valor, new-born in her nation by the breath of her spirit; enemies who hungered for her life as being the only puissance able to stand between English triumph and French degradation.
However, he had better hopes when the sons of Devon appeared, as they did in about an hour's time; fine fellows, and eager to prove themselves. And there was scarcely a man among them but could have trounced three of the yellow men, and would have done it gladly too, in honour of the red facings.
Once, too, when there was some grumbling and talk of a mutiny over the state of the provisions, he was of opinion that they should not wait for the dogs to rise, but that they should march forward and set upon them until they had trounced the devilment out of them.
A knight seated near the small window at the further wall greeted him as he entered. "How did the day turn out? No doubt they trounced you well." "No, master, no trouncing did I get. Instead, the good King spoke pleasantly unto me, gave me this bag of gold, and commended me to my master. Furthermore, see you these prizes that are mine?"
Could the world have been sued like a Body-Corporate, my father had brought an action upon the case, and trounced it sufficiently; but to fall foul of individuals about it as every soul who had mentioned the affair, did it with the greatest pity imaginable; 'twas like flying in the very face of his best friends: And yet to acquiesce under the report, in silence was to acknowledge it openly, at least in the opinion of one half of the world; and to make a bustle again, in contradicting it, was to confirm it as strongly in the opinion of the other half.
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