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"Alack, my poor master!" ejaculated the whipping-boy, with feeling; adding, to himself, "In truth 'tis as they said his mind is gone alas, poor soul! But misfortune catch me, how am I forgetting! They said one must not seem to observe that aught is wrong with him." "'Tis strange how my memory doth wanton with me these days," said Tom.
However, he had a private hour with his whipping-boy which he counted clear gain, since he got both entertainment and needful information out of it.
Meanwhile they bullied and "rabbled" the "curates" for their religion: such was Leighton's "drunken scuffle in the dark." In 1672 Lauderdale married the rapacious and tyrannical daughter of Will Murray of old the whipping-boy of Charles I., later a disreputable intriguer.
"Alack, my poor master!" ejaculated the whipping-boy, with feeling; adding, to himself, "In truth 'tis as they said his mind is gone alas, poor soul! But misfortune catch me, how am I forgetting! They said one must not seem to observe that aught is wrong with him." "'Tis strange how my memory doth wanton with me these days," said Tom.
He had been page or "whipping-boy" to Charles in his boyhood, had been in his service ever since, had been recently in France, but had returned early in 1646.
Presently our whipping-boy passed him, then wheeled about and scanned his figure well, saying to himself, "An' that is not the very vagabond his Majesty is in such a worry about, then am I an ass though belike I was that before. He answereth the description to a rag that God should make two such would be to cheapen miracles by wasteful repetition.
The Scriptures are, indeed, inspired; but they contain a wholly undefined and indefinable "human element"; and this unfortunate intruder is converted into a sort of biblical whipping-boy.
"My back is my bread, O my gracious liege! if it go idle, I starve. An' thou cease from study mine office is gone thou'lt need no whipping-boy. Do not turn me away!" Tom was touched with this pathetic distress. He said, with a right royal burst of generosity "Discomfort thyself no further, lad. Thine office shall be permanent in thee and thy line for ever."
Beecot retired to a tearful rest, her bully found Paul a useful person on whom to expend his spleen. Should this whipping-boy leave, Mr. Beecot would have to forego this enjoyment, as servants object to being sworn at without cause. For years Mr.
Snavely and whipping-boy for Mrs. Pipkin. Monday morning the head of the house arose early and, before Mrs. Pipkin had finished her beauty sleep, that hard-working man was at the door demanding his pay. An hour was all the time she required for dressing. Mr. Cadge wished he had broken his fast before leaving home.
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