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"Ratting seems to have more excuse," the tutor said, and made no sign of a liking for either of those popular pastimes. As he disapproved without squeamishness, the impulsive but sharply critical woman close by nodded; and she gave him his dues for being no courtier. Leo had to be off to bed.
"Because in this unenlightened land no man is allowed to have more than one wife at a time Oh, Tommy, what have you been doing?" Kingsmead, who had come in without knocking, sat down and stretched his thin legs over the arm of the chair. "Ratting." "Oh, you nasty child! What a beastly thing!" "Ratting, my dear mother, is a fine, manly, old-time sport.
"That means he hailed from Boston, and your father called him that in sheer contempt. No wonder they fought." He was silent, thinking over that strange tale of a lost mine which Sam Singer had told Donna's mother. "Well, I'm not going to keep on desert ratting until somebody cracks me on the head and stows me on the shelf" he said presently. He waved his arm toward the north.
The hunters suspended operations to wipe the streams of perspiration from their faces and to explain matters. "Ratting, eh?" queried Spofforth. "You fellows look like a pair of Little Willies looting a French chateau." "Hullo! More of 'em," murmured Laxdale as the door was unceremoniously pushed open and another of the "One Pip" officers made his appearance.
Rabbits would be nicer to eat than rats, I should think, though I daresay they'd eat rats too if they were ravenous and they have to be ravenous when they're used for ratting, to make them eager, for when they've had lots to eat they are sad lazy little beggars. 'That's like snakes, said Rosamond, with a small shudder. 'I'm sure I shouldn't like ferrets, Justin.
I have brought my bag with my togs." "All right, sir, I am ready at once; the place is clear now behind. I have just been making it tidy, for we had a little ratting last night, one of my dogs against Sir James Collette's, fifty rats each; my dog beat him by three quarters of a minute." "You will never see me here at one of those businesses.
Well, he will cross the threshold of one of those dens where a man's intellect is prostituted; he will put all his best and finest thought into his work; he will blunt his intellect and sully his soul; he will be guilty of anonymous meannesses which take the place of stratagem, pillage, and ratting to the enemy in the warfare of condottieri.
The lady returned to her mansion beyond Wintoncester, and told nothing of the interview to her noble husband, who had fortunately gone that day to do a little cocking and ratting out by Weydon Priors, and knew nothing of her movements.
Lesseps began, 'We must have the Commissioners of the Debt on the enquête. "I said, 'It is a sine quâ non that they are not to be upon it. Lesseps replied, 'They must be upon it. Cherif Pasha was pleased. "But I instinctively felt old Lesseps was ratting, so I asked Cherif to stop a moment, and said to Stanton, 'Now, see that Lesseps does not make a mess of it.
How could a delicate, high-bred woman, soft-handed, velvet robed, care to have such a lad about her? a boy who smelt of stables and wore hob-nailed boots, whose pockets were always sticky with toffee, and his handkerchiefs a disgrace to humanity, who gave his profoundest thoughts to pigeon-fancying, and his warmest affections to ratting terriers, nay, who was capable of having a live rat in his pocket at any moment of his life.
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