Huxter

"Huxter's Cross; I remember thinking at the time that it must be a place where they sold things, because of the name Huxter, you see, pronounced just the same as if it was spelt with a cks instead of an x.

Birds of Prey 1875

Huxter arose with great perturbation at this news, and plunged his stick into the pocket of his paletot, and seized his hat.

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And he told the ladies how Huxter had elevated Fanny to the rank of wife, and what terrors he was in respecting the arrival of his father.

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Huxter junior would lurk outside whilst that awful interview took place.

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Huxter then worked through the room, followed by his friends, and came and took a place opposite Pen, nodding familiarly to him, and holding him out a dirty hand to shake.

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Huxter, who, having winked at Bows with one eye, now favoured Pen with a wink of the other — a wink which seemed to say,

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School, who had been present at a combat which has been mentioned in the early part of this story, when young Pen knocked down the biggest champion of the academy, and Huxter knew that it was dangerous to quarrel with Arthur.

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When Huxter commenced his attack, that free-spoken young gentleman had not seen who was his opponent; and directly he was aware that it was Arthur whom he had insulted, he began to make apologies.

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Huxter was regaling himself with a cup of coffee at a stall in

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And herewith the lavender-coloured Dexter kid-glove was handed out, in token of amity, to Huxter.

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