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"There's going to be a hell of a bust-up one of these days and one of these days very soon in the Balkans. From Scutari to Salonica to Rodosto, the whole blooming triangle it's going to be a battlefield. The war correspondent who goes out there not knowing his ground will be a silly ass. The slim statesman like me won't. See?

With one accord, the two young men rose from the ground and turned their steps homewards. The mineralogical lesson was over. "Coming to Keith's to-night?" enquired Marten with a fine show of nonchalance. "I don't know." "I would if I were you. They say he does things properly. There'll be an awful crowd a regular bust-up. He only gives one of these entertainments a year.

I'll have a damned good bust-up then, and then I'll finish the job for ever." "Oh, I do think you're mad raving mad!" she cried, and could say nothing else. "Of course it's by no means certain I'll have enough courage to kill myself. I rather doubt it! You see, they didn't breed me with courage. They've given me porridge in my veins instead of blood!

"What d'you make of it, Buck?" he demanded, as he came up, his apprehensions finding no place in his manner. Buck displayed no surprise. He did not even turn his head. "The fires are hotting. The water's nigh boiling. There's goin' to be a mighty bust-up." The Padre looked out across the water. "There's fire around us, fire above us, and now fire under us.

Prompt bust-up of childhood sweetheart's romance. Abandonment of social position, wealth, everything by Schuyler, who declares he will make the stranger his bride accompanying subtitle, "What should we care what the world may say? For after all, love is all!"

To-day's the first bust-up he's had since he hit this country." "That's it, then. Luke gave him the redeye so's he'd be easy meat for the butcher. Does he ever gamble any?" "Shore before he came West. Jane done told me how back East in McPherson, Kansas, he used to go the limit forty ways liquor, cards, the whole layout o' hellraising.

"Well, I's not 'zactly sure what I means, but he said sulfry. An' dey've bin shook more dan ornar ob late. An' dere's a scienskrific gen'leman in our inn what's bin a-profisyin' as there'll be a grand bust-up afore long." "I hope he'll turn out to be a false prophet," said Lawrence. "What is his name?" "Dun' know, massa.

He took my point at once, and remarked that he wanted none of my lip, or he would ask me officially what became of Don Ramon de Santander's big pink pearl. It's a queer yarn. There was a bust-up in Guatemala " "Look here, Wally," broke in Grant anxiously. "Are you serious? Did Furneaux really say he was coming here?" "He did, and more he expressed a partiality for a chicken roasted on a spit.

They came and set fire to London and burnt and sank all the ships there used to be in the Thames we could see the smoke and steam for weeks and they threw a bomb into the Crystal Palace and made a bust-up, and broke down the rail lines and things like that. But as for killin' people, it was just accidental if they did. They killed each other more.

And then very quietly he spoke, and she experienced an odd revulsion of feeling that was almost disappointment. "Have you been reading the papers lately?" She had not. Jeanie occupied all her waking thoughts. He glanced down at the sheet he held. "There is going to be a bust-up on the Continent," he said, and there was that in his tone a grim elation which puzzled her at the moment.