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"I admire Sir Julien's talents to such an extent that I am perhaps a trifle too anxious that he should not use them against my country." "You haven't forced your way in here to bandy phrases," Julien asserted a little harshly. "What is it that you want?" "You!" Falkenberg answered softly. "You, my friend!

Nothing was stirring about the inn excepting a bandy Dachshund, which came wheezing up and thrust a cold nose into the young man's hand. High in the air a hawk was wheeling; his faint, querulous cry struck Gethryn with an unwonted sense of loneliness. He noticed how yellow some of the trees were on the slopes across the lake. Autumn had come before summer was ended.

He spoke of the General's industry and assiduity at school as very remarkable. Whilst his brother and other boys at playtime were at bandy and other games, he was behind the door ciphering. But one youthful ebullition is handed down while at that school, and that was romping with one of the largest girls; this was so unusual that it excited no little comment among the other lads."

"My name is Coyne an' you must get out o' this." "I don't see as it follows," answered Mr. Jope meditatively. "But hadn't you better step inside?" "I don't want to bandy words " began the publican, entering as though he shouldered his way. "That's right! Bill, fetch an' fill a glass for the gentleman." "No, thank you. . . . Well, since you have it handy.

His hand reached under the pillow. Bob guessed what was there and dropped hard with both knees on his stomach. The breath went out of Bandy suddenly. He lay still for a moment. When he began to struggle again he had forgotten the revolver under the pillow. With a sweeping gesture Bob brushed pillow and gun to the floor.

But in eighty-five cases out of a hundred none of us have any knowledge of the history of painting or any intelligent idea of why Velasquez is regarded as a master; yet we acquire a glib familiarity with the names of half a dozen cubists or futurists, and bandy them about much as my office boy does the names of his favorite pugilists or baseball players.

If you and I meet to bandy insults, it is because the past has left no mutual respect between us; but I have this advantage over you; the sins which have drawn on me even your contempt have been long since repented of, while yours, compared to which mine fade into innocence, seem but to have hardened into pride." Lord Hope smiled. "Of what crime does Mr. Hepworth Closs charge me?"

Barbee and Bandy Oliver and the other boys were obeying Steve's commands, doing all that they could, seeking frantically to split the herd and divert it and so save it. But all of the time the wind strengthened, the fires rose higher and higher against the sky, the sparks soared to rarer altitudes, were flung further out, new fires were catching everywhere.

The lady's attitude became more tense and the pupils of her handsome grey eyes dilated. "Has a young female just entered this shop?" said a very heavy and rumbling voice. "This ain't a shop, sir," replied the high soprano of the young librarian, indignantly. "Bandy no words with me, thou infamous malapert!" returned the first voice. "But answer my question.

"And Jimmy says, 'Far be it from me to bandy words with a hopeless dyed-in-the-wool Tory, he says, 'what's agoin' blindly to his crool end, he says, 'in spite of "And then Ma butts in. 'That'll do for you, Jimmy Duggan, she says. 'Both of them political parties is rotten, she says, 'and you know it.