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But, if you speak fairly you must own that they are very gallant men." "Gallant men!" cried the skipper scornfully. "I don't call them men. I call them monkeys! Men! Butchers, as cut off the head of their beautiful Queen Mary What-you-may-call-it, and then after shedding blood like that, sending no end of poor women who never did them a bit of harm to that guillotine.
She was very self-possessed, and met Smith's look frankly. "My daughter, Mr. . I don't know your name, sir," said the captain. "My name's Smith." He doffed his cap. "Now, Margy, my girl, Mr. Smith, who's in the Navy, is going to be so kind as to take you in his what-you-may-call-it to Penang, and send a steamer to take us off or tow us in, as the case may be."
"Think it over for yourself, Madam Shoibes," he says, looking down at the table, spreading out his hands and screwing up his eyes. "Think of the risk to which I'm exposed! The girl through means of deception was enticed into this... what-you-may-call-it... well, in a word, into a house of ill-fame, to express it in lofty style. Now the parents are searching for her through the police. Ve-ery well.
"What is the fault of the infant-class teacher, Mr. Martin?" asked Phillida with some surprise. "This seeming sore throat of Tommy's." "How can that be? I don't understand." "Well, you see she talked to the children last Sunday about swearing and other such sins of speech. Now sin and disease are cor what-you-may-call-it.
"Wave of Continental Socialism at last invading England with its what-you-may-call-it flood," she said, if I remember rightly. Capital sentence to end off one's speech with, I declare. Devizes'll positively wonder where I got it from. I'd no idea before that girl took such an intelligent interest in political questions. So they want their cottages whitewashed, do they?
'Hear, hear, hear! cried the lamplighters generally. 'Tom Grig, gentlemen, said the chairman, 'was one of us; and it happened to him, as it don't often happen to a public character in our line, that he had his what-you-may-call-it cast. 'His head? said the vice. 'No, replied the chairman, 'not his head. 'His face, perhaps? said the vice.
"Well, I'll set a course for Penang " "Port Blair's nearer, sir, in South Andaman." "But I'm more likely to find a fast steamer at Penang. And as to your daughter, captain, she'd better come along with us." "In that what-you-may-call-it, sir?" "Yes, certainly. We can easily carry her, and make a comfortable seat for her behind ours if you give us a cushion.
"Though just the same I'd like most to death to have just one go at that squarehead Hansen." He smiled with pleasure at the thought. "Say, let's forget it all now, an' you sing me 'Harvest Days' on that dinky what-you-may-call-it." When she had complied, accompanying herself on the ukulele, she suggested his weird "Cowboy's Lament."
What connection there was between the little incident just described and the excursion to Lake "What-you-may-call-it" we cannot pretend to state; but there must have been some sort of connection in Mrs Sudberry's brain, and we record her observation because it was the origin of this day's proceedings.
"That's it," said Punch; "and our friends, after beating off the enemy, have gone back to their what-you-may-call-it quarters mine, didn't they call it?" "Yes." "Well, then, that's what we have got to do get away from here and go back and join Mr Contrabando again." "Impossible, Punch, even if we were free." "Not it!
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