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Comfortable Lodgings choose

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[UK] R.B. Peake Comfortable Lodgings I i: Play the devil’s tattoo with your stick, like a selfish old crab you are.
at devil’s tattoo (n.) under devil, n.
[UK] R.B. Peake Comfortable Lodgings I ii: That’s your taste – faugh!
at faugh!, excl.
[UK] R.B. Peake Comfortable Lodgings I iii: sir h.: [Aside] Gammon!
at gammon!, excl.
[UK] R.B. Peake Comfortable Lodgings I i: Some poppy concoction – no, no! – I’ll not touch your narcotic.
at poppy, n.1
[UK] R.B. Peake Comfortable Lodgings I i: Do you hear that, you old ramrod?
at ramrod, n.
[UK] R.B. Peake Comfortable Lodgings I ii: So, at last at Paris; and I’ll be bound I’m the greatest rip in it.
at rip, n.1
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