He was as his State had made him, and the reader must not imagine because he was a little Cockney
cad, that he was absolutely incapable of grasping the idea of the Butteridge flying-machine.
This work of art was executed at the natural height at which an idle fellow, be he Phoenician workman or British
cad, is in the habit of trying to immortalise himself at the expense of nature's masterpieces, namely, about five feet from the ground.
'I'b dot certaid you
cad,' said Barney, who was the attendant sprite; 'but I'll idquire.'
Since I have learned that I have learned something else--what a
cad and what a coward I have been all my life.
George would seem to have behaved like a
cad throughout; perhaps that was the view which one would take eventually.
And then there came to my mind, in a sudden, brilliant flash upon the screen of recollection the picture of Ajor as I had last seen her, and I lived again the delicious moment in which we had clung to one another, lips smothering lips, as I left her to go to the council hall of Al-tan; and I could have kicked myself for the snob and the
cad that my thoughts had proven me--me, who had always prided myself that I was neither the one nor the other!
What kind of a Cockney bounder and
cad could she have taken him for?