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A pint of sulphuric acid should then be poured in gradually, after which the liquor is ready. Immerse the skins and allow them to soak for three or four hours. The process of "fleshing" is then to be resorted to. This consists in laying the skin, fur side down, over some smooth beam, and working over the flesh side with a blunt fleshing tool.
It had, as usual with Stimson's schemes, all been carefully thought out, and the plan was eminently workable, but unfortunately for the grizzled sergeant a better brain than his had foreseen the combination. In the meanwhile the lad felt his limbs grow stiff and almost useless, and a lethargic numbness blunt the keenness of his faculties as the heat went out of him.
This opens up a new vista. John is visibly agitated by the news. "I believe I see light; the hand of Pauline Potter is behind it all." "Monsieur, pardon." "Well, what is it now?" "From all he said I was inclined to believe it was a man who bought Bab Azoun." "Yes, yes; but you see he may have been mistaken. Besides, Blunt fought like a tiger. It does not matter just now.
"You would not have me marry her?" asked blunt, practical Amyas. "God knows what I would have I know not; I see neither your path nor my own no, not after weeks and months of prayer. All things beyond are wrapped in mist; and what will be, I know not, save that whatever else is wrong, mercy at least is right." "I'd sail to-morrow, if I could. As for marrying her, mother her birth, mind me "
Alford, the farmer, was a blunt, good-humored, and rather eccentric man, shrewd and well to do, but kindly and charitable. He had no children, and he enjoyed the occasional visits of his favorites heartily; so did his wife, Aunt Mercy. Her broad face brightened as she saw the girls coming, and her plump hands were both extended to greet them.
When one examines things through a microscope " "One doesn't in psychology." "Well, perhaps not so much as formerly, especially since vivisection is so looked down upon. But it is terribly absorbing, as I say. And one can hardly expect an absorbed man to see things. And yet " "What is it," asked Mary bluntly, "that you think Professor Spence ought to see?" This was entirely too blunt for Mrs.
BOGGS, Detective. "That is perfectly absurd!" I exclaimed. "Of course it is," said the inspector. "Evidently Mr. Barnum, who thinks he is so sharp, does not know me but I know him." Then he dictated this answer to the despatch: Mr. Barnum's offer declined. Make it $7,000 or nothing. Chief BLUNT. "There. We shall not have to wait long for an answer. Mr.
M'Evoy's case had occurred more than ten years before, but he found that the remembrance of the poor man's injury was strongly and bitterly retained in the recollections of the people a circumstance which extorted from the blunt, but somewhat sentimental soldier, a just observation: "I think," said he, "that there are no people in the world who remember either an injury or a kindness so long as the Irish."
“Every Carlist agent in Bayonne assured me of that,” said Mr. Mills. “I would have gone straight to Paris only I was told she had fled here for a rest; tired, discontented. Not a very encouraging report.” “These flights are well known,” muttered Mr. Blunt. “You shall see her all right.” “Yes. They told me that you . . . ”
"True, 'tis a debt, as you say; but I like little enough the manner of its paying. How came you to quarrel with him, Jack?" Now even so blunt a soldier as I have ever been may have some prickings of delicacy where the truth might breed gossip gossip about a tale which I had said should die with Richard Coverdale and be buried in his grave.
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