United States or Niue ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Four years at his probations and his negations the fine statue still lying in the middle of the marble block, and nothing done, but his tools sharpened to hew it out! 'Tis a piteous delay! Was not the great Julius Scaliger within an ace of never getting his tools sharpened at all?
"I'll settle that in short order. My horse there, orderly! I'll be back by four, Mr. Gordon. Fix that detail to suit yourself." And so saying the irascible colonel flung himself out of the tent and into his saddle. "You young idiot," said Gordon, whirling on Billy the moment the coast was clear. "You came within an ace of ruining the whole thing.
"Keep your eyes upon the ace. Ready go!" He spread the cards. As he had released he had tilted them slightly, and I clearly saw the ace land. The cards fell in the same order as arranged. To that I would have sworn. "Five dollars now that any one card is not the ace," he challenged. "I shall not touch them. A small bet just enough to make it interesting. Five dollars from you, sir?"
The gambler hesitated an instant while the crowd pricked up its ears, and the girl turned wondering, troubled eyes upon the miner. What would he do now? "Counting bank rolls, fixtures, and all, about a hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Why?" "I'll pick the ace to lose, my one-half interest in the Midas against your whole damned lay-out!"
"We were roundin' up a few strays just the other side of the Narrows this morning, and Ace and Weary were workin' down the river. In that little stretch of gully just the other side of the Narrows they came upon this sneak brandin' two of our beeves through a piece of wet blanket. He'd already done it an' so we ketched him with the goods.
He soon cleared a passageway through the snow, and stood beside me. "I never expected to see you alive again," he said; "I had a terrible trip. I didn't think I should ever get through caught in the snowstorm and laid up for three days. The cattle wandered away and I came within an ace of losing them altogether. When I got started again the snow was so deep I couldn't make much headway."
Naturally, from a canine chorus of such executants it might reasonably be inferred that the establishment was one of the utmost respectability. To that, however, our damp, cold hero gave not a thought, for all his mind was fixed upon bed. Indeed, the britchka had hardly come to a standstill before he leapt out upon the doorstep, missed his footing, and came within an ace of falling.
"Silence," said another, "till we hear John Dickson's song." The said John Dickson was at the time indulging them with a comic song, which was encored with roars of laughter. "Hallo!" shouted one of those at the cards, "here's Jack Brereton has prigged the ace of hearts."
He never answers any questions, but he constantly mutters with unusual rapidity: "Three, seven, ace! Three, seven, queen!" Lizaveta Ivanovna has married a very amiable young man, a son of the former steward of the old Countess. He is in the service of the State somewhere, and is in receipt of a good income. Lizaveta is also supporting a poor relative.
Butler," she said, "is the officer who was guilty of the affair at Tavora." He knit his brow in thought. "Butler-Tavora?" he muttered questioningly. Suddenly his memory found what it was seeking. "Oh yes, the violated nunnery." His thin lips tightened; the sternness of his ace increased. "Yes?" he inquired, but the tone was now forbidding. Nevertheless she was not deterred. "Mr.
Word Of The Day