Doubles and Quits, Volumul 2W. Blackwood and Sons, 1869 - 294 pagini |
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Pagina 8
... suppose she got sick of it , for all of a sudden up she came without any warning . That put me in a nice fix , I can tell you . I remember her arrival so well . It was just after tiffin , and all the fellows were lounging about in the ...
... suppose she got sick of it , for all of a sudden up she came without any warning . That put me in a nice fix , I can tell you . I remember her arrival so well . It was just after tiffin , and all the fellows were lounging about in the ...
Pagina 12
... suppose I have a right to bring her anywhere ; and as to " disreputable , " how dare you use that word ? ' ' She was drunk , sir , ' said the Colonel , quailing a little though . She was not drunk - no man shall say she was ; she was ...
... suppose I have a right to bring her anywhere ; and as to " disreputable , " how dare you use that word ? ' ' She was drunk , sir , ' said the Colonel , quailing a little though . She was not drunk - no man shall say she was ; she was ...
Pagina 24
... suppose she thought I was seedy and going off the hooks , and she was hedg- ing with this beast , and meant , wait till I was dead . If it is worldly prudence , ' said the Jew , who was a deuced poetical kind of Jew - if it is worldly ...
... suppose she thought I was seedy and going off the hooks , and she was hedg- ing with this beast , and meant , wait till I was dead . If it is worldly prudence , ' said the Jew , who was a deuced poetical kind of Jew - if it is worldly ...
Pagina 54
... suppose ? " " Nothing of the sort ; I was having a long tête - à - tête with a friend . ” " And he bored you ? " " No ; he didn't bore me at all ; he in- terested me deeply . " " I should like to see him , as a natural curiosity . A ...
... suppose ? " " Nothing of the sort ; I was having a long tête - à - tête with a friend . ” " And he bored you ? " " No ; he didn't bore me at all ; he in- terested me deeply . " " I should like to see him , as a natural curiosity . A ...
Pagina 65
... suppose ? some fire and water to go through . You are not going to tilt hap - hazard at windmills like Don Quixote ? What is your scheme ? " Now I had become conscious that , in my protestations of yesterday , I had been , in fact ...
... suppose ? some fire and water to go through . You are not going to tilt hap - hazard at windmills like Don Quixote ? What is your scheme ? " Now I had become conscious that , in my protestations of yesterday , I had been , in fact ...
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Pagina 245 - Too late ; the chance was thine, but now 'tis mine — the roses all are dead." Through the livelong night this infernal jingle held possession of my fevered brain. Now and then I woke up, and, as if to exorcise the demon suggesting the evil refrain, roared out, " To-morrow the die shall be cast." In vain — back it came, spoken now by Burridge, now by Badger, now by Lady Rose. It was set to music at last, and Tom Finney and Bill Whytock sung it over a pot-house table, to the air of the
Pagina 25 - I would rrr-rend him limb from limb,' and he rolled his eyes and gnashed his teeth like an ogre. ' Would you 'i ' said I, stepping out. ' Well, here I am — rend away!' Wasn't the Jew taken aback ! You should have seen his face. Then I took him by the scruff of the neck and kicked him up and down the room, and then I got a cutting whip and let into him till he bellowed like a mad bull, and I took the butt and crashed into his head and face with it, and bundled him to the window when I was tired...
Pagina 70 - The pay of a captain, a heavily-mulcted £200 a-year, and £300 a-year of my own in the Funds — it was a case of very simple addition; and this was all I had, and all I could ever calculate upon as a certainty. That was bad; it was desperately bad. The failure of the " three-hundred-a-year marriages," so much talked of once, has no doubt been painfully demonstrated long ago.
Pagina 148 - Major, who was to command us, and who had gone on a month's leave, joined the detachment, he hoped I would " stick very close " to it, especially as the other officers were very young. To ask for leave was therefore impossible, and there was nothing for it but to await the Major's arrival with what patience I might command. The idea of proposing to Lady Rose by letter occurred to me once or twice in my most desperate moments, but I discarded it ; there was an ill-omened smack of the sneaking and...