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Updated: June 23, 2025
I know your tricks, Fairfax; you are one of the doubtful doctors; you love to catch credulity upon your hook. I hear fat laughter gurgling in your throat, and out bolts your threadbare simile 'Before the battle's won the Brentford hero sings Te Deum. But don't be wasteful of the little wit you have. Do I not tell you it is decreed? When was I posted for a vapouring Hector?
Affectation the man is suffering from the desire to be original more egotism than love of truth, and so forth." "Right, too, dear boy. All this vapouring is as much as to say: 'Look at me! I am the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Thingamy, nephew of the Prime Minister; and yet " "I don't at all agree with the chief," said Drake, "and I told him so.
'I would have you both to understand that you must have a care of yourselves, said the Ambassador. 'The Admiral's wound has justly caused much alarm, and I hear that the Protestants are going vapouring about in so noisy and incautious a manner, crying out for justice, that it is but too likely that the party of the Queen-mother and the Guise will be moved to strong measures.
The story of the fight is simply told; there is no necessity for any wild vapouring in regard to Australian courage, no need for hysterical praise. Our fellows simply did what they were told to do in a quiet and workmanlike manner, just as we who know them expected that they would; we are all proud of them, and doubly proud that the men in the fight with them were our cousins from Canada.
In England this was all voted "leather and prunello" and a mere vapouring opinion of the Emperor's, but as far as I could observe he was perfectly right, and had the governor been acting under my orders I question much whether I should not have hanged him.
More than once, too, I heard one of the men near me wonder how the housewife would be getting on with the beasts and sheep. The words were spoken in Boer Dutch; but in the course of years I had become pretty well acquainted with the expressions of ordinary life. Thus it seemed as if the men were anything but contented followers of their noisy, vapouring leader.
Lord Selkirk's property now makes large returns, from the stock of the North West Company and Hudson's Bay Companies having united. I learned from Lord Dalhousie that he had been keeping a diary since the year 1800. Should his narrative ever see the light, what a contrast will it form to the flourishing vapouring accounts of most of the French merchants! Mr. and Mrs.
Loyalty is your pass-word, my lord Liberty, roars another chield from the other side of the strath the King, shouts one war-cry the Parliament, roars another Montrose, for ever, cries Donald, waving his bonnet Argyle and Leven, cries a south-country Saunders, vapouring with his hat and feather.
There is no moon, there are no stars, no promise to the eye, but in the dense, vapouring darkness the bulbs are moving. I can smell what is not earth or rain or bark. The curtain has been drawn over No. 11; the Sister holds the corners tightly against the window-frame.
It is equally a fact that these vices were imported into England by the young men who, under pretence of learning the Italian polish, travelled to Italy. Marston writes in a rage, it is true; foaming, stamping, and vapouring too much to escape the suspicion of exaggeration; yet he dared not have published the things which he does, had he not fair ground for some at least of his assertions.
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