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Two of the summer boarders still lingered behind the rest, prisoners for lack of a remittance; they were both English, but one of them spoke French pretty fluently, and was, besides, a humorous, agile-minded fellow, with whom the Doctor could reason by the hour, secure of comprehension. Many were the glasses they emptied, many the topics they discussed.
"Furthermore, he has been detected lurking in secret meeting-places by the wayside, and on reaching Yu-ping he raised his rebellious voice inviting all to gather round and join his unlawful band. The usual remedy in such cases during periods of stress, Excellence, is strangulation." "The times are indeed pressing," remarked the agile-minded Mandarin, "and the penalty would appear to be adequate."
"Gee, Ikey!" murmured the agile-minded Irish lad, "I've got an idea." "I bet you," returned Ikey. "You always have ideas. But is this one worth anything?" "Listen here!" and Frenchy, with dancing eyes, whispered into his friend's ear the details of the new-born scheme. "Oi, oi!" cried Ikey. "It is an idea, sure enough. But it is trouble you are looking for." "Not a bit of it.
There were the thunderous Webster, the grandeur of whose sentences no American has equaled; the agile-minded Clay, whose voice was like a silver clarion; the farseeing, fiery Calhoun, of "the swift sword" most formidable in debate but I was soon to learn that neither nor all of these men gifted of heaven so highly could cope with the suave, incisive, conversational sentences of Wright, going straight to the heart of the subject and laying it bare to his hearers.
In those six words the brisk and agile-minded Miss Kelly expressed the surprise and the awed conviction of the office staff. Pop Henderson trotted over to the water-cooler, drew a brimming glass, drank it off, and gave vent to a great exhaust of breath.
She had been agile-minded enough to shift the attack and put him upon the defensive, but now Healy brought the question back to his original point. "That's all very well, Phyl, but we weren't talking about me, but about you. When you found this Keller making his escape you buckled in and helped him. You tied up his wound and took him to Yeager's and lied for him to us.
Not that we cared to do the thing in a spectacular fashion. We were thinking of that decisive effect upon morale. Two hours later we were pitching pennies in one of the hangars, when Talbott came across the field, followed solemnly by Whiskey and Soda, the lion mascots of the Escadrille Lafayette. "What's the date, anybody know?" he asked, very casually. J. B. is an agile-minded youth.
Two of the summer boarders still lingered behind the rest, prisoners for lack of a remittance; they were both English, but one of them spoke French pretty fluently, and was, besides, a humorous, agile-minded fellow, with whom the Doctor could reason by the hour, secure of comprehension. Many were the glasses they emptied, many the topics they discussed.
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