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Isabel asked. "O, it reminded me so sweetly of the swindles of other lands and days, that I couldn't help it," he answered; and straightway in the eyes of both that poor, whiskeyfied, Irish tatterdemalion stood transfigured to the glorious likeness of an Italian beggar.
Walker's Philip has probably become the Philip of many readers, but he was not Mr. Thackeray's. It is delightful to be sure, on the other hand, that we have the author's own Captain Costigan before us, in his habit as he lived the unshaven chin, the battered hat, the high stock, the blue cloak, the whiskeyfied stare, and the swagger. Mr. Thackeray did not do his young men well.
Isabel asked. "O, it reminded me so sweetly of the swindles of other lands and days, that I couldn't help it," he answered; and straightway in the eyes of both that poor, whiskeyfied, Irish tatterdemalion stood transfigured to the glorious likeness of an Italian beggar.
Toole called Sturk a 'horse doctor, and 'the smuggler' in reference to some affair about French brandy, never made quite clear to me, but in which, I believe, Sturk was really not to blame; and Sturk called him 'that drunken little apothecary' for Toole had a boy who compounded, under the rose, his draughts, pills, and powders in the back parlour and sometimes, 'that smutty little ballad singer, or 'that whiskeyfied dog-fancier, Toole. There was no actual quarrel, however; they met freely told one another the news their mutual disagreeabilities were administered guardedly and, on the whole, they hated one another in a neighbourly way.
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