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Strikes me women don't yet begin to understand the noble art of friendship " "Which is a libel but let that pass! Besides hasn't it struck you? Arúna " "My God!" His hands dropped with a crash on the keyboard. Then, in a low swift rush: "Thea, you don't mean it you're pulling my leg." "Bible-oath I'm not. It's too safely tucked under the piano!"
I often tell Mrs. Professor that one of her "I think it's sos" is worth the Bible-oath of all the rest of the household that they "know it's so."
"Oh, miss!" she said, "the body mustn't be left a minute: there's a whole army of rats in the house already! As I was covering the table with a blanket before I put on the sheet, there got up all at once behind the wainscot the most uprageous hurry-scurry o' them horrid creaturs. They'll be in wherever it is you may take your bible-oath! Once when I was " Hester interrupted her.
"On your word and honor and Bible-oath, Cynthia?" "On my word and honor and on my Bible-oath, father," she said, repeating the words, because she saw that he attached especial importance to the formula. "I never believed and never will believe that you were guilty of Sydney Vane's murder!
Upon my honor, I would hold my right hand up and take my Bible-oath, if it was not busy with the pen at this moment, I do not believe the Scarabee had the least idea in the world of the satire on the student of the Order of Things implied in his invitation to the "amatoor."
I often tell Mrs. Professor that one of her "I think it's sos" is worth the Bible-oath of all the rest of the household that they "know it's so."
"What do you think, Sam?" says he; "that infernal aunt of yours, at whose command you had the things, has written to the tradesmen to say that you are a swindler and impostor; that you give out that she ordered the goods; that she is ready to drop down dead, and to take her bible-oath she never did any such thing, and that they must look to you alone for payment.
He lives, nobody knows how on bright, clean gold, nobody knows whence: his daughter says, indeed, that her father found a crock of gold in his garden but she needs not have held her tongue so long, and borne so many insults, if that were all the truth; and, mark this! even though she says it, and declares it on her Bible-oath, Acton himself most strenuously denied all such findings but went about with impudent tales of legacy, luck, nobody knows what; the man prevaricated continually, and got angry when asked about it cudgelling folks, and swearing like like any one but old-time "honest Roger."
Upon my honor, I would hold my right hand up and take my Bible-oath, if it was not busy with the pen at this moment, I do not believe the Scarabee had the least idea in the world of the satire on the student of the Order of Things implied in his invitation to the "amatoor."
He lives, nobody knows how on bright, clean gold, nobody knows whence: his daughter says, indeed, that her father found a crock of gold in his garden but she needs not have held her tongue so long, and borne so many insults, if that were all the truth; and, mark this! even though she says it, and declares it on her Bible-oath, Acton himself most strenuously denied all such findings but went about with impudent tales of legacy, luck, nobody knows what; the man prevaricated continually, and got angry when asked about it cudgelling folks, and swearing like like any one but old-time "honest Roger."
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