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But splinters and bumps did not interfere with their pursuit of pleasure. Now the twins had a Secret Society, of which they were the founders, the officers and the membership body. Its name was Skull and Crossbones. Why that name was chosen perhaps even the twins themselves could not explain, but it sounded deep, dark and bloody, and so was the Society.
We discover, in other words, that The University of Hard Knocks has two colleges The College of Needless Knocks and The College of Needful Knocks. We attend both colleges. The College of Needless Knocks The Bumps That We Bump Into NEARLY all the bumps we get are Needless Knocks. There comes a vivid memory of one of my early Needless Knocks as I say that.
There's one of the great big differences between you and the make-believe ladies one bumps into in this part of town. You don't like to be troublesome or expensive. But we'll go to the Knickerbocker. I feel 'way down today, and I intended to treat myself. You don't look any too gay-hearted yourself." "I'll admit I don't like the way the cards are running," said Susan.
"The Lord never made either your face or head for X What good can your bumps of ideality, comparison, self-esteem, conscientiousness, do you here? But if you like Bigben Close, stay there; it's your own affair, not mine." "Perhaps I have no choice."
At times I dozed, but the shaking of the car always awoke me, and I would sit blinking out at the endless stretch of plain, until a sudden flurry of rain blotted the landscape from my eyes. At last a long, shrill whistle from the engine, a jolt, a series of bumps, and an apparition of red trousers and bayonets warned me that we had arrived at the French frontier.
He was selling tacks and turnips in a gloomy corner store, and he never washed his windows and he never swept the floor, and he let the cobwebs gather on the ceiling and the walls, and he let his whiskers flourish till they brushed his overalls. So his customers forsook him for his patrons were not chumps and the sheriff came and got him and that merchant bumped the bumps.
The narrow carriage-way is deeply rutted, which makes one think that the old Romans had hard bumps to contend with. "Another tomb with perfect stairway has been discovered, but it is much more plain. Foundations of villas, and baths with leaden pipes in great quantity, have been exposed.
"Oh, you can't disappoint me, Meg; I shall never forgive you," she protested, and then came to a sudden stop seeing that John Everett was also in her friend's room. But as he bowed low to her it was impossible for him to have observed her slight blush. "Do take Meg with you by force, Miss Ashton," he urged. 'Bumps' has just taken another tumble."
If there were those who from motives, let us say, of envy looked with the jaundiced eye of disfavor upon his mounting popularity and his constantly widening scope of influence they mainly kept their own counsel or at least refrained from voicing their private prejudices in public places. One gets fewer bumps traveling with the crowd than against it.
He's in such a hurry to get away that he bumps into Mr. Robert, who's just strollin' toward the private office, and the famous bindings, art masterpieces, contents pages and so on are scattered all over the floor. "Who was our young friend with all the literature?" asks Mr. Robert. "That's Mr. Schott," says I, "your wizard of the dotted line, who was due to break in on Mr.
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