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I gave him the desired assurance, and added: 'May I ask you. O'Connor, if, indeed, it be a fair question, whether this Fitzgerald at any time attempted to engage you in anything like gaming? This question was suggested by my having frequently heard Fitzgerald mentioned as a noted gambler, and sometimes even as a blackleg. O'Connor seemed, I thought, slightly embarrassed.
I have read several articles on blackleg, and it seems strange to me that no mention is made of an operation that is an absolute preventive, namely, bleeding in the feet. The reason that no special mention of bleeding is made is that it is not now considered the preventive that it once was. Some people appear to have fair success with it, and others no success at all.
The widow is still a widow, and the children, who you tell me number seven, are orphans; and surely at his death a man ceases to be either a blackleg or a trades unionist. He is not working against orders now, at any rate. Make it twenty! make it twenty." And as at that moment the Prime Minister was announced, the Comptroller-General, for the present at any rate, "made it twenty" and retired.
He puts his head up against Blackleg's head, an' he said, soft an' low, kinda: "'Blackleg, he said; 'I've give you away. I hated like poison to do it, but I reckon Betty'll look a heap better on you than she does on that skate she rode today. Damn that black devil! he said, 'I wouldn't have took the job of breakin' him for any other woman in the world.
"'But if he can be made to leave her, and never speak to her again, will it not show to her that he's what you said he was, and thus turn her against him? "'I don't know. She's been cool enough to drive him away, said that 'ere Miss Staggles. "'But if he leaves disgraced, proved to be a villain, a deceiver, a blackleg, or worse than that, while I show up as an angel of light?
'Faugh! the low Irishman, they would say. 'Bah! the coarse adventurer! 'Out on the insufferable blackleg and puppy! and so forth. This hatred has been of no inconsiderable service to me in the world; for when I fasten on a man, nothing can induce me to release my hold: and I am left to myself, which is all the better. Scorn I can bear, and have borne at thy hands.
But the bully in the organ loft, who was not content for long to play the part of Patience on a monument, interrupted the speaker with a second question which he looked upon, doubtless, as a hard nut to crack. "Are you aware," inquired the blackleg "that the slaves in the South have their prayer-meetings in honor of Christ?"
"But how is it that I see you and Mr. Bennington together?" evilly. "We'll come to that presently. I had always given you credit for being as astute as you were underhanded and treacherous." "Thanks." McQuade took a cigar from his pocket and fumbled around in his vest for a match. "But," Warrington added, "I am pained to reverse my opinion. You are a fool as well as a blackleg."
"The one thing I shall always be sorry for is that I failed, and I would go away with pleasure if the horse had trampled the life out of him. Well, there was a time when you could have made what you wished of me, and now, at least, I shall not see the blackleg you have showered your favors on drag you down to the mire he came from."
But this, again, would be claiming too much for heredity, at the expense of training. Remember, however, that our present subject is not the 'gentleman' of actual life. He is an unknown and elusive quantity, merging insensibly into saint or scoundrel, sage or fool, man or blackleg. He runs in all shapes, and in all degrees of definiteness.
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