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"You fail to see so often, Mr. Pedagog," returned the Idiot, "that I would advise your eyes to make an assignment in favor of your pupils." "I must confess," put in Mr. Whitechoker, blandly, "that I too am somewhat er somewhat " "Somewhat up a tree as to science's connection with the future?" queried the Idiot.
The culprit quailed on hearing the verdict, and implored a less ghastly fate; but Jikjak was obdurate, and smiling blandly, he bade his followers bend a couple of stout branches to the ground and tie their tops to the ankles of the offender.... Such, then, were the robbers of the Rhine, and such the code of honour which existed among them.
"Suppose it was me, wouldn't you take it?" asked Aunt Kipp, blandly, for the new fancy pleased her. "No, thank you, ma'am," said Van, decidedly. "And why not, pray?" cried the old lady, with a shrillness that made him jump, and Toady back to the door precipitately. "Because, if you'll excuse my speaking plainly, I think you owe anything you may have to spare to your niece, Mrs.
He pointed out blandly that everything would yet go well. All was not lost. They had other irons in the fire. And even the Rio Negros themselves were not an absolute failure. The diamonds, the diamonds themselves, he insisted, were still there, and the sapphires also. They studded the soil, they were to be had for the picking. Every bit of their money would come back to them in the end.
"Er what other races have we?" inquired the Honorable J. Percival, as blandly as his violated feelings would allow. "We haven't had any yet," cried a new voice in the stand the wrathful voice of Trustee Silas Wallace, of the horse department. After quite a struggle he had managed to tip President Kitchen off the trap-door and had ascended.
Instead, I drew my curtains and turned on the light, and continued to wait. I waited a long time. At last Barbara rushed in. "Doria's ready." "You've heard all about it?" She nodded. "I said there would be no marriage," I remarked blandly. "You said she wouldn't marry him. I said she would. And so she would, if he had let her.
I enter the service of madame immediately." And then Céline had smiled blandly, bowed, and taken her departure, leaving the spinster to wonder how on earth she should manage her hair-dressing, and to wish that Edward had not insisted upon setting the girl adrift until a substitute had been found. The fact that the girl was retained in the house annoyed Mr. Percy not a little.
"If I knew where that white waterfall is I'd go and stand under it for a few minutes." The small Fijian gave a little gurgle of surprise and looked up at his big teacher, who regarded me with eyes of wonder. "What white waterfall, boss?" he asked blandly. "The one you were singing about," I cried. The Maori smiled sweetly. "We weren't singing about a white waterfall, boss," he spluttered.
Could the signorino have suddenly gone mad? He blushed a little under his brown skin that had reminded her of a coffee-bean. "She is a good ten years older than I am," he explained. "Ah, well, ten years isn't much." "You don't think so?" he cried, delighted. Who knows? she might not think even thirty too much. "Not at that age," said Goneril, blandly. Signor Graziano could think of no reply.
"No good," remarked his opponent blandly. "Mine's hearts all in a row, with the jack at the top." One by one he laid them down a straight flush. South Bend stared incredulously at the cards. "All right, Mr. Stakeholder," laughed the salesman, "pass over the kale. Just slip out a five for your trouble." "Just a minute." The voice of the stakeholder was quiet and his lips smiled.
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