should forbear to quarrel."
It was on the way to the Sally Mangy that this brangling had begun, and
it ended jest as they were seating themselves. I shall never forgit poar
little De l'Orge's eyes, when my lady said "both of you." He stair'd
at my lady for a momint, turned pail, red, look'd wild, and then, going
round to master, shook his hand as if he would have wrung it off. Mr.
Deuceace only bow'd and grin'd, and turned away quite stately; Miss
heaved a loud O from her busm, and looked up in his face with an
igspreshn jest as if she could have eat him up with love; and the little
shevalliay sate down to his soop-plate, and wus so happy, that I'm blest
if he wasn't crying! He thought the widdow had made her declyration, and
would have him; and so thought Deuceace, who look'd at her for some time
mighty bitter and contempshus, and then fell a-talking with Miss.
Now, though master didn't choose to marry Lady Griffin, as he might have
done, he yet thought fit to be very angry at the notion of her marrying
anybody else; and so, consquintly, was in a fewry at this confision
which she had made regarding her parshaleaty for the French shevaleer.
And this I've perseaved in the cors of my expearants through life, that
when you vex him, a roag's no longer a roag: you find him out at onst
when he's in a passion, for he shows, as it ware, his cloven foot the
very instnt you tread on it. At least, this is what YOUNG roags do; it
requires very cool blood and long practis to get over this pint, and not
to show your pashn when you feel it and snarl when you are angry. Old
Crabs wouldn't do it; being like another noblemin, of whom I heard the
Duke of Wellington say, while waiting behind his graci's chair, that if
you were kicking him from behind, no one standing before him would know
it, from the bewtifle smiling igspreshn of his face. Young master hadn't
got so far in the thief's grammer, and, when he was angry, show'd it.
And it's also to be remarked (a very profownd observatin for a footmin,
but we have i's though we DO wear plush britchis), it's to be remarked,
I say, that one of these chaps is much sooner maid angry than another,
because honest men yield to other people, roags never do; honest men
love other people, roags only themselves; and the slightest thing which
comes in the way of thir beloved objects sets them fewrious. Master
hadn't led a life of gambling, swindling, and every kind of debotch to
be good-tempered at
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