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Well, I'll be shot...." Ingram cut short his tale. "I can't go into what followed. Much of it was irrelevant, all of it was preposterous. It ended by Mirza directing me to the nearest hotel, in perfect English. The crosser he got, the better his English. That's odd, you know. Of course, I chucked the chap. He lost a soft billet." There were no comments from the auditory, save such as Mrs.
Absolutely, sir." He stopped in the doorway. "I daresay it was 'er beauty, sir, that did it. No chops. Quite so, sir." "If Blithers were only here," sighed Dank. "He would make short work of the female invasion. He would have them chucked overboard." "I beg pardon, sir," further adventured Hobbs, "but I fancy not even Mr.
There's no harm in your wife going out to lunch with Kettering if she wants to. Give her the benefit of the doubt for the present, at least." "She's chucked me for him. She promised to meet me. She thinks more of him than she does of me, or she'd never have gone." There was a sort of enraged agony in Jimmy's voice, a fierce colour burned in his pale face. Sangster shrugged his shoulders.
`Gyp, however, knew a trick worth two of that, and, as he emerged into the open again, chucked the rat up aloft in the air, almost to the deck beams, and then, pouncing on it as the brute fell back under his expectant jaws, the terrier severed its head from its body with one snap!
The trooper took the purse with an air of indifference, weighed it in his hand, chucked it up into the air, and caught it as it fell, then shook his head, and said, "There's many a merry night in this nest of yellow boys, but d n me if I dare venture for them that old woman has spoken too loud, and before all the men too.
Do you suppose a chap who's been a miserable vote-snatcher all his life is going to turn round suddenly and be a heaven-sent administrator in a war? You can take your oath Heaven doesn't send out geniuses on that ticket. What you've lived and done in fat times that's what you're going to live and do in lean. Heaven's chucked stocking divine fire." "I'm with you there," Sabre said.
Theresa had, she feared, been just a wee bit flighty, leaving Damaris unattended while herself mildly gadding. But such dereliction of duty was insufficient to account for the arbitrary fashion in which she had been sent about her business, literally the word wasn't pretty chucked out!
But when you asked me that you spoke, a minute afterwards, of my having chucked it, as if it was giving up sugar or stopping bridge. Well, that's why I'm warning you to look out for yourself. Because, Harry, I don't regret it. I'm craving to go back to it, craving, craving, craving!" She stopped. She said, "Do you want me not to go back, Harry?" He looked steadily at her.
"Yer can't 'ave spent it all 'tain't possible an' yer ain't chucked it out o' winder. Yer've got it somewhere 'idden, an' I'll get it out o' you if I die for 't!" Bessie surveyed him steadily. She had not even flinched at the mention of the sovereigns. "What yer 'aven't got, yer can't give," she said. "I don' know nothin' about it, an' I've tole yer.
It can wait a bit longer. I borrowed forty pounds from Mr. Ramage. Thank goodness you'll understand. That's why I chucked Manning.... All right, I'm coming. But all this business has driven it clean out of my head.... That's why he was so annoyed, you know." "Who was annoyed?" "Mr. Ramage about the forty pounds." She took a step.
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