Educated the expensive way / He knows his claret from his Beaujolais
What must I do if, at market-time or on a Saturday night, a customer wants a pennyworth each of paregoric and syrup of squills, or a pennyworth of laudanum in a winebottleful of vinegar and treacle?
Most likely it is the wrench of leaving so glittersome and jovial an estate, which the learned doctor had in mind.
One of the Governors of Bencoolen was thus “amoked” in his own sitting-room, where he met instant death, owing to his having by mistake struck the son of a Malay chief with his whip when taking his evening airing in a buggy. A Dutch admiral was “amoked” on his own quarter-deck when receiving a Javanese chief and his family on board, he having saluted (as was the custom of his country at that time) the chief’s daughter. He died on the spot for the supposed insult. In the case of the Lieutenant-Governor of Singapore, his being “amoked” appears to have been a mere chance collision, the intended victim having been another native by whom the “amoker” had been imprisoned.[…]It was about two Fridays after this that the Sultan and Mr. Raffles met at the house of Colonel Farquhar, for on that day there was a trial of an ‘amoker,’ who had ‘amoked’ at Campong Glam; and when this was over, Mr. Raffles asked the Sultan about their former discourse.
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