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Victorious Betty, be merciful, and do not ruin my Reputation amongst my Friends. Flaunt. Your Whores you mean, you Sot you. Sir Tim. Nay, triumphant Betty, hear thy poor Timmy. Flaunt. My poor Ninny, I'm us'd barbarously, and won't endure it. Sir Tim. I've won Money to Night, Betty, to buy thee Clothes hum hum Well said, Frank, towse the little Jilts, they came for that purpose. Flaunt.
I am tir'd with every thing, impatient to end, as soon as I begin them; even the shades and solitary walks afford me now no ease, no satisfaction, and thought but afflicts me more, that us'd to relieve.
For in the Moon this hurry about choosing of Feathers was grown to the greatest heighth imaginable, as if it encreast by the very Laws that were made to suppress it; for now at a certain publick Place where the Bloutegondegours us'd to meet every Day, any Body that had but Mony enough might buy a Feather at a reasonable Rate, and never go down into the Country to fetch it; nay, the Trade grew so hot, that of a sudden as if no other Business was in Hand, all people were upon it, and the whole Market was chang'd from Selling of Bear-Skins, to Buying of Feathers.
I am us'd to these things, and can guess from a Look, or a Kiss, or a Touch of the Hand but then I warrant, 'twill come to the knowledge of Betty Flauntit. Sham. What, Sir, then it seems you doubt us? Sir Tim. How do you mean, your Honesty or Judgment? I can assure you, I doubt both. Sharp. How, Sir, doubt our Honesty! Sir Tim. Yes why, I hope neither of you pretend to either, do you? Sham.
Freedom meant us could leave where us'd been born an' bred, but it meant, too, dat us had to scratch for us ownse'fs. Dem what lef' de old plantation seemed so all fired glad to git back dat I made up my min' to stay put. I stayed right wid my white folks as long as I could. "My white folks talked plain to me.
"That Socrates, the wisest of men, us'd to boast he never saw a tavern, nor ever had been in the common company that frequents such places. That nothing was more convenient than a discreet behaviour. All these are truths, nor shou'd any sort of men," added I, "more expect the sudden assaults of ill fortune, than those that covet what's other men's.
For in truth there is not a surer way to keep them under, than by demolishments; and whoever becomes master of a City us'd to live free, and dismantells it not, let him look himselfe to bee ruin'd by it; for it alwayes in time of rebellion takes the name of liberty for refuge, and the ancient orders it had; which neither by length of time, nor for any favours afforded them, are ever forgotten; and for any thing that can be done, or order'd, unlesse the inhabitants be disunited and dispers'd, that name is never forgotten, nor those customes: but presently in every chance recourse is thither made: as Pisa did after so many yeeres that she had been subdu'd by the Florentines.
Whereof his master being well aware, Committed all he had to Joseph's care; And made him overseer of his house, And, from the time his master us'd him thus, The Lord was pleas'd to give him to partake, So many blessings, e'en for Joseph's sake: Of that with plenty he was hedg'd about, And prospered within door and without.
Your Ladyship wou'd make no Scruple of it, if you knew how this poor Gentleman has been us'd by my unmerciful Master. L. Ful. I have a Key already to his Counting-House; it being lost, he had another made, and this I found and kept. Bred. Madam, this is an excellent time for't, my Master being gone to give my Sister Leticia at Church. L. Ful.
"It's the end I'm looking at," Bradby said gloomily. "It might be the sort of end neither of us'd fancy." Mr. Cumshaw made no immediate reply. He was peering very intently through the boles of the trees as if he was not quite sure that what he saw was really there. "What are you looking at?" Bradby demanded irritably.
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