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"Dangnation take it!" he used to say, "I don't git up enough spunk to cut a heifer out o' the herd until somebody else has roped her and slapped his brand onto her. Talk about too many irons in the fire, why, I've only got one, and it's het up red all the time waitin' fer the right chanct to use it; but some how I never git it out o' the coals. Hell! what's the use, anyhow?
"So we are how absurdly you do put things, Percy! when we make a fair start. But just till we begin in earnest, there's no need for such strictness. Anyhow, if Maggie doesn't go to Devonshire, she'll go back to her parents at Invercandlish. So the old lady can't stop. And Gwen will go back to the Towers, of course.
But there it is. And so I hate to see a relation of my own I count Rosamund as a relation now standing out against her." "There's no reason to think she's doing that." An expression that seemed to be of pity flitted over Daventry's intelligent face, and he slightly raised his eyebrows. "Anyhow, we won't bother you with another dinner invitation," he said. And so the conversation ended.
Perhaps he had become fonder of eggs. Or perhaps he had become bolder. Anyhow, he noticed that old dog Spot gave him a wide berth. Whenever old Spot saw him he tucked his tail between his legs and ran, yelping, into the house. Now, Johnnie Green soon discovered that something or somebody was frightening old Spot almost every day.
"I feel I'm getting old and want another drink. I got the bead on the fellow's dark head and missed him by a yard. Well, I guess you can't expect to have steady fingers when you've got malarial ague. It's a dramatic kind of country, anyhow." Kit lighted a maize-leaf cigarette and mused.
Anyhow he'd watched Starlight in Canterbury when he was riding and flashing about, and had put such a lot of things together that he took a passage in the same boat with him to Melbourne. Why didn't he arrest him in New Zealand? Because he wasn't sure of his man. It was from something Starlight let out on board ship.
He has been living in France all his life, and though he has never said anything about his family indeed he talks but little, he just comes in and does his work and goes away I fancy his father was one of King Charles's men and of good blood." "Well, that doesn't sound so well," the sailor said, "but anyhow I should like to have a look at him."
It makes my heart ache to think of it, come what may, as far as I can see, and without her to judge. The only comfort is, that poor Margaret herself knows nothing of it, and is at peace so far. It will be ordered for them, anyhow. Good-night, my dear." Ethel sought her room, with graver, deeper thoughts of life than she had carried upstairs.
For a long time we have said to Almighty God, "Thank You, Sir, but we do not much like Your game of life, so we will not play." 'Anyhow, said Arnott defiantly, 'men live a century apiece on the average now. 'Oh, that is quite well! I am rich you are rich we are all rich and happy because we are so few and we live so long.
Well, well, we had to expect that, and things might have been worse. Anyhow she is not jealous thank goodness. So the day comes when poor little Cinderella sits alone of a night in the beautiful palace. The courtiers have gone home in their carriages. The Lord High Chancellor has bowed himself out backwards. The Gold-Stick-in-Waiting and the Grooms of the Chamber have gone to their beds.
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