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"Don't stop to ask questions you trot, unless you want to get hurt. Do you hear me? the stable door! That's it; now undo the button, open the door, and go inside." I held him like a vice, assured his belt contained no weapons, and thrust him forward against the wall. He was so helpless in my grasp that it was like handling a child. "Feel along there higher up and tell me what you find.
I wanted to prove to you that it is really dangerous for a little girl to wander alone in a fairy country; so I took the form of Crinklink to teach you a lesson. There isn't any Crinklink, to be sure; but if there had been you'd be severely whipped for breaking all those dishes." The Wizard now rose, took off the coat with the button heads, and spread it on the floor, wrong side up.
Sponge wore a plain scarlet with a crimson velvet collar, and a bright fox on the frosted ground of a gilt button, with tights as before; and when Mr. Crane arrived he was found to be attired in a dress composed partly of Mr. Puffington's and partly of the Muggeridge Hunt uniform the red coat of the former surmounting the white shorts and black stockings of the other.
Some enterprising button firm got out a button on which the phrase was printed. Comedians on the stage, newspaper paragraphers, his bank teller or his tailor, even staid business men wishing to appear "up-to-date," used it as a parting salute. The hand-organs, the bands and the theater orchestras everywhere were using it.
I axed him one day when they was all spread out on his bed what on earth he had so many galluses for, an' Mostyn said I give you my word I'm not jokin' he said" Webb laughed out impulsively "he said it was to keep from botherin' to button 'em on ever' time he changed!
And Ailsa knew that Berkley had seen her, and that the brightness of the young world was leaving her, centred there in the spark of fire that tipped his lance. Now she saw her lover turn in his saddle and, sitting so, ride on and on, his tall lance slanting from stirrup boot to arm loop, the morning sun bright across his face, and touching each metal button with fire from throat to belt.
This button picked up by the police proves, according to them, the criminality of the one who lost it. They will find that I am the one " "They will not find you." "Let us admit that they do find me. How should I defend myself?" "By proving that you were not in the Rue Sainte-Anne between five and six o'clock, since you were here." "And what witnesses will prove this alibi? I have only one mamma.
But maybe he wouldn't like now, even if I met him again after what he knows " "Look here, Tom. You'll be sailing in a day or so and when you come back I'll probably be in Washington. Perhaps you'll wish to enlist over here soon. I'm going to give you a little button, kind of, as you would say to keep in your head. And this is it.
The old Earl took off his three-cornered hat with the gold button on a white rosette at the side. Adam did the same with his more modern broad-brimmed, low-crowned white beaver. "I have the honour to announce to you," said Earl Raincy, bowing formally, "that your daughter is at my house under the care of my daughter-in-law.
Yet somehow the books that were still books had not been sent to the garret, to make room for the illustrated papers and the profound physiological studies of sin and suffering that were produced by touching a scientific button.
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