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“A common thief!”
Schomberg bit his tongue just too late, and woke up completely as he saw Ricardo retract1 his lips in a cat-like grin; but the companion of “plain Mr. Jones” didn’t alter his comfortable, gossiping attitude.
“Garn! What if he did want to see his money back, like any tame shopkeeper, hash-seller, gin-slinger, or ink-spewer does? Fancy a mud turtle like you trying to pass an opinion on a gentleman! A gentleman isn’t to be sized up so easily. Even I ain’t up to it sometimes. For instance, that night, all he did was to waggle his finger at me. The skipper stops his silly chatter2, surprised.
“‘Eh? What’s the matter?’ asks he.
“The matter! It was his reprieve3 — that’s what was the matter.
“‘O, nothing, nothing,’ says my gentleman. ‘You are perfectly4 right. A log — nothing but a log.’
“Ha, ha! Reprieve, I call it, because if the skipper had gone on with his silly argument much longer he would have had to be knocked out of the way. I could hardly hold myself in on account of the precious minutes. However, his guardian5 angel put it into his head to shut up and go back to his bed. I was ramping6 mad about the lost time.”
“‘Why didn’t you let me give him one on his silly coconut7 sir?’ I asks.
“‘No ferocity, no ferocity,’ he says, raising his finger at me as calm as you please.
“You can’t tell how a gentleman takes that sort of thing. They don’t lost their temper. It’s bad form. You’ll never see him lose his temper — not for anybody to see anyhow. Ferocity ain’t good form, either — that much I’ve learned by this time, and more, too. I’ve had that
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rusty
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v. 使变斜视眼, 斜视, 眯眼看, 偏移, 窥视; n. 斜视, 斜孔小窗; adj. 斜视的, 斜的 | |
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