[Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray]@TWC D-Link bookBurlesques CHAPTER IX 57/65
"What is this will ?" "Oh, it's merely a matter of form," said the lawyer, riding up.
"For heaven's sake, madam, be peaceable; let my friends, Higgs, Biggs, and Blatherwick, arrange with me.
I am surprised that none of their people are here.
All that you have to do is to eject us; and the rest will follow, of course." "Who has taken possession of this here property ?" roars Jemmy, again. "My friend Mr.Scapgoat," said the lawyer .-- Mr.Scapgoat grinned. "Mr.Scapgoat," said my wife, shaking her fist at him (for she is a woman of no small spirit), "if you don't leave this ground I'll have you pushed out with pitchforks, I will--you and your beggarly blackamoor yonder." And, suiting the action to the word, she clapped a stable fork into the hands of one of the gardeners, and called another, armed with a rake, to his help, while young Tug set the dog at their heels, and I hurrahed for joy to see such villany so properly treated. "That's sufficient, ain't it ?" said Mr.Scapgoat, with the calmest air in the world.
"Oh, completely," said the lawyer.
<<Back Index Next>> D-Link book Top TWC mobile books
|