Then I'd as soon be a Gauger!
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
As there are unhappily impracticable people in the world, who, as Curran expressed it, are never content to know "who killed the Gauger, if you can't inform them who wore his corduroys"-to all such I would, in deep humility, say, that with my "Confessions" they have nothing to do-I have neither story nor moral-my only pretension to the one, is the detail of a passion which marked some years of my life; my only attempt at the other, the effort to show how prolific in hair-breadth 'scapes may a man's career become, who, with a warm imagination and easy temper, believes too much, and rarely can feign a part without forgetting that he is acting.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
It's a Gauger he'd like to be, my lord," said he, turning to me, in a kind of stage whisper.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)