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Like enough he'll git a trouncing from his father," she added cheerfully, as some compensation. "What is a trouncing?" asked Joel, suddenly, as they hurried on. "The land alive, don't know what a trouncing is!" ejaculated the tavern-keeper's wife. "It's a whipping, and Jim's father knows how to give it good, I tell you." Joel stood still. Little David stared in horror in Mrs. Green's face.
"Do you know what we're fighting about, Farley, old man?" asked Dave very quietly. "No; of course not." "It's a personal matter." "O-oh!" "It's a matter in which I can't accept an imitation whipping." "But surely you don't expect to whip Treadwell in your present condition?" "I very likely shall get a thorough trouncing," smiled Darrin. "I told you it was a personal matter," laughed Dave softly.
A letter which he wrote me during the run of "The Wandering Heir" was such a wonderful lesson to me that I am going to quote it almost in full, in the hope that it may be a lesson to other actresses "happy in this, they are not yet so old but they can learn"; unhappy in this, that they have never had a Charles Reade to give them a trouncing! Well, the letter begins with sheer eulogy.
"He is upon his reserve, it is true," Beaver wrote, "but he has gathered his men together for the purpose of marching on Hatchet Creek, and there effecting a junction with the rebel Metis. If you permit me to run down and give them a good trouncing, it will make an end of the contemplated league."
"'Twas thy Dad thou gavest such a trouncing. And thou hast an arm, too. Let's cast an eye on it." He took her wrist and pushed up her sleeve, but she dragged back. "Will not be mauled," she cried. "Get away from me!" He shouted with laughter again. He had seen that the little arm was as white and hard as marble, and had such muscles as a great boy might have been a braggart about.
Marlboro was a great general, and as sorry a scoundrel as ever led troops to battle. Truly," says he, musing, "the Lord often makes queer choice in his instruments for good." And he lowered himself into the easy chair and crossed his legs, regarding me very comically. "What's this I hear of your joining the burghers and barristers, and trouncing poor Mr.
A legend of a parson that had been a tutor in one of the Romfrey houses, and had talked and sung blandly to a damsel of the blood degenerate maid to receive a handsome trouncing for his pains, instead of the holy marriage-tie he aimed at, was the only connection of the Romfreys with the parsonry, as Everard called them.
"You cad to keep me boxed up here with that little serpent pouring all sorts of poison into your ears! Where is she? Where is she? I'll give her such a trouncing as she's never had before!" But Ingleton stretched an arm in front of her, barring the way. His face was grim and unyielding. "No, you won't!" he said. "You'll leave her alone. She's my daughter not yours.
"Go ahead, bump him!" the young inventor heard Sam whisper. "You'd better try it, if you want to get the best trouncing you ever had!" cried Tom hotly. "Hu! I s'pose you think you're going to bid on the boat?" sneered Andy. "Is there any law against it?" asked Tom. "Hu! Well, you'll not get it. I'm going to take that boat," retorted the squint-eyed bully. "Dad gave me the money to get it."
The Georgian replied, that it had become a fashion with military men to carry their gallantry a little too far with females, and rather than regret the trouncing he had given the major, he hoped the example would have its effect.
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