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"Then, of course, there comes a scuffle, and Master Whipper-snapper begins to roar, and out comes Missus, who, poor thing, had no more sense in her head than her sons, though she'd never been to school to lose it over Latin and Greek; and, says she, with all her ribbons streaming, and her petticoats swelled out like a window-curtain in a draught says she: "'Cook!
And the worst of it was that he had extraordinary luck, both in the run of the cards and in his manoeuvres. "What is that young whipper-snapper up to?" "He wanted to take my life until my good angel interfered and saved me. Now does he want to break me financially? By Jove! they're coming near to doing it among them. I shall have to go to Moss to-morrow for another £250. Well, what does it matter?
"Well, not so much of a whipper-snapper as Master Scarlett, sir; but you haven't got much muscle, you know." "Muscle enough to try." "Yes, sir," said the ex-gardener, thoughtfully; "but it isn't the muscle so much as the try. It's the thinking like and scheming.
I thought to myself, I am amongst a precious set of cannibals, indeed, and it will require all my temper to manage with such a tribe. There, too, sat the Sheriffs. The one of them, Mr. Sheriff Brice, a sugar-baker, was as upstart, whipper-snapper, waspish a little gentleman as ever disgraced the seat of office. I soon discovered that I was not to expect from him an atom of liberality or fair play.
She had been hiding from him even in his presence. In every aspect she was an anger. But she could talk to the fellow with her ... a skinny whipper-snapper, whom the breath of a man could shred into remote, eyeless vacuity. Was this man another insult? Did she not even wait to bury her dead? Pah! she was not value for his thought.
"I guess," he said, with a smile, "that it's the only reason I've got." "You no need to say that," said his mother, resenting the implication that any woman would not have him. "Oh, I'm not pretty to look at, mother, and I'm not particularly young; and for a while I thought there might be some one, else." "Who?" "The young fellow that came with her, that day." "That whipper-snapper?" Dr.
If some little whipper-snapper seeing a brilliant countess pass in her brilliant carriage shall say to himself, "Who can call such a divinity his?" and grow thoughtful why, it will double my pleasure. "La Palferine owned to us that he flung this programme at Claudine's head simply to rid himself of her.
But this whipper-snapper had bought the Islands: money dirty money alone gave him power over men who were Islanders by birth and by long generations of breeding. While the Lord Proprietor talked, Eli felt an impulse almost uncontrollable to lay hands on him and wring his neck.
"And what's your own lot?" bellowed the Parson "one dozen of sweepings of France, one dozen of the picked scum of our country, and one conceited young whipper-snapper, who swaggers about in breeches and boots all day and was never on a horse in his life to my certain knowledge!" The Gentleman waved his hand. "Take the consequences then," he said. "A rivederci."
But when I went out to their camp at Paco their major just as much as ordered me away, and that little whipper-snapper, Lieutenant Ray, that I could take on my knee and spank He Lieutenant Ray a friend of yours? Well, you may think he is, or you may be a friend of his, but I can tell you right here and now he's no friend, and you'll see he isn't.
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