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These boys will see that the matter is made public." "By Jove, yes!" cried Sandal, with a look of abhorrence at Hay, "and I'll prosecute you to get back those thousands you won off me." "I never did--" "You've been rooking this boy for months," cried Miss Qian.

Then Miss Qian turned her attention to her guests: "See here, boys," she said frankly, "this is a dirty business, and I don't want to be mixed up with it." "But Hay should be exposed," insisted Sandal; "he's been rooking me, I do believe, for months." "Serve you jolly well right," said Aurora, heartlessly.

After taxes and the rooking the real estate boys gave him, his royalties were tied up for years to come.

There, any day throughout the year, the knowing ones were gathered--with those green goslings who wished to be thought knowing--exchanging the latest scandal and sporting gossip of the road, and rooking and being rooked; the high-coloured, full-blooded ancestors of the present generation, which looks upon them as a quite different order of beings, and can scarce believe in the reality of those full habits, those port-wine countenances, those florid garments that were characteristic of the age.

George's Fields, “rooking rascals,” playing at “nine pins,” tell him to prate on till he is hoarse.” Espying a windmill hard by, he hies to the miller, whose excuse for not dealing with him was, that he must steal out of every bushel “a peek, if not three gallons.” Conscience then trudges on “to try what would befall i' the country,” whither we will not follow him.