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"My dear Wilson," said he, "if you or anybody else thinks I'm a man to talk through his hat, I'll retire at once. I don't care a damn about myself. Not a little tuppenny damn. What the devil does it matter to me whether I get into Parliament or not? Nothing. Not a tuppenny damn. You can't understand. It's the party and the country. For myself, personally, the whole thing can go to blazes.
"O woman, gentle woman," murmured Clancy in his glass, "especially real ladies. But Dave never did know how to talk to a lady." "I should say he didn't." "No, not Dave. And so his money gone he's " "Money? Why, he never had any money." "Well, that's bad. Not even enough to open a bottle of wine to drink a lady's health?" "Bottle of wine? No, nor a thimbleful of tuppenny ale."
I suspect this is what made you count on me for a subscription. You thought that I, having a little money of my own, might be tempted by certain sycophantic instincts to emulate his misplaced generosity. But I am not a snob. From the social point of view I don't care a tuppenny damn for anyone. On the other hand, my origin has given me something of Dr.
Nobody cares a tuppenny damn about his opinion, except the fools who read it and the knaves who buy it." "And who do you imagine those people are?" "Most of them are publishers, I believe. But a good few are authors, I regret to say." "Authors have cheek enough for most things; but I should like to see one suggesting to Jewdwine that he should sell him his opinion."
"She! a great lady? Oh, lor'!" "Yes only see how she was dressed, in scarlet gown, and violet gloves like a bishop's; and, when she took off her bonnet, she had a diamond band round her head-dress of false, light hair, and diamond ear-drops as large as my thumb, and diamond rings on every finger! None of your tuppenny beauties would wear so many diamonds in the middle of the day."
That meant new trouble trouble for Major Brown commanding the little two-company station the "tuppenny post," his subaltern, Blake, derisively termed it trouble for Blake, who was officer of the day, and was held on tenterhooks for many a day thereafter trouble for Sergeant Collins, who was directly in command of the guard "Collins né Oolahan," as Freeman wrote him down, it having been discovered that this versatile Celt had served a previous enlistment in the "Lost and Strayed," when four of its companies were pioneering shortly after the war, where even the paymaster couldn't find them.
They was all pitchin' plumb on that road, an' each one about fifty to a hundred yards nearer our procession, an' us walkin' straight into the shower too. The swoosh-bang o' each one kep' gettin' louder an' louder, an' not a single one was missin' the road. I tell you, I could feel the flesh creepin' on my bones an' a feelin' in the pit o' my stomach like I'd swallowed a tuppenny ice-cream whole.
'But all you'll ever take of Englan' will be same as you took before a tuppenny tip if you serves the soup up nice, or a penny tip if you gives an Englishman a proper clean shave. The rifle opposite banged again and the bullet slapped into the top of the parapet. 'That drawed 'im again, chuckled Private Robinson, 'but I wonder why the corp'ril didn't get a whack at 'im.
For the first time in his life he felt distrustful of himself, and he suspected, too, that Furneaux was only covering abject failure by a display of high spirits. "Why so pensive an attitude, James?" inquired the other softly. "Are you still wondering what the extrados of a voussoir is?" "I don't care a tuppenny damn what it is." "But that's where you're wrong.
"She! a great lady? Oh, lor'!" "Yes only see how she was dressed, in scarlet gown, and violet gloves like a bishop's; and, when she took off her bonnet, she had a diamond band round her head-dress of false, light hair, and diamond ear-drops as large as my thumb, and diamond rings on every finger! None of your tuppenny beauties would wear so many diamonds in the middle of the day."
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