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"But as I have said," continued the duchess, "try, if you can, to be novel, and be a bodkin only to the victim's face, save, of course, in the case of a new bit of racy scandal. That must be used to the greatest advantage as soon as possible, for scandal, like unsalted butter, will not keep." The duchess laughed, as though speaking in jest, but she was in earnest and spoke the truth.
"You may sell those brutes of yours now, and then perhaps you'll be able to educate your children." So Sir Nicholas Bodkin had addressed his eldest son, as they rode home together on that occasion. "Why so?" Peter had asked, thinking more of the "brutes" alluded to than of the children.
He was nicknamed Malyuta Skuratov on account of his cruel treatment of the boys and clerks under him. When they went into the restaurant he nodded to a waiter and said: "Bring us, my lad, half a bodkin and twenty-four unsavouries." After a brief pause the waiter brought on a tray half a bottle of vodka and some plates of various kinds of savouries. "Look here, my good fellow," said Potchatkin.
It was difficult, indeed, for the poor tailor to bear what he felt; it is true he bore it as long as he could; but at length he became suicidal, and often had thoughts of "making his own quietus with his bare bodkin." After many deliberations and afflictions, he ultimately made the attempt; but, alas! he found that the blood of the Malones refused to flow upon so ignominious an occasion.
The marriage of the thread could not be consummated, the bodkin remained virgin, and the servant began to laugh, saying to La Portillone that she knew better how to endure than to perform. Then the roguish judge laughed too, and the fair Portillone cried for her golden crowns.
When Armado tells the 'country lass' he is wooing, that he will 'tell her wonders, she exclaims, 'skittish female' that she is, 'What, with that face? And when Holofernes, nettled with the ridicule showered on his abortive impersonation of Judas Maccabaeus, says, 'I will not be put out of countenance, Byron replies, 'Because thou hast no face. The indignant pedant justifies, and, pointing to his physiognomy, inquires, 'What is this? Whereupon the waggish courtiers proceed to define it: it is 'a cittern-head, 'the head of a bodkin, 'a death's-face in a ring, 'the face of an old Roman coin, scarce seen, and so forth.
My grandfather, John Hussey, lived at Dingle, his mother being a member of the well-known Galway family of Bodkin. He was an offshoot of the Walter Hussey who had been converted into an animated projectile by the underground machinations of Cromwell's colonels.
Upon trial, the innocence of the Comte, as to the slightest knowledge of his wife's secret and heinous crime, was so apparent that it ensured him an honourable acquittal; but the guilt of that wretched woman being established beyond all doubt by the evidence of the goldsmith who had made for her, and engraved her initials upon, the Golden Bodkin, of the domestics who had seen her when their master fell asleep during the vespers at St.
Her sunny complexion, snow white teeth, brilliant black eyes, and raven locks marked her country lying far in the south of France, and the arch smile and dimpled chin bore the same character. Her luxuriant raven locks, twisted around a small gold bodkin, were kept in their position by a net of silk and gold.
But he was a Protestant, and Sir Nicholas Bodkin was a Roman Catholic, and therefore an enemy as a dog may be supposed to declare himself a dog, and a cat a cat, if called upon to explain the cause for the old family quarrel. Now there had come a cloud over his spirit in reference to the state of his country.
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