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It stimulated his imagination like strong coffee and evoked the roseate dreams of hasheesh. Even Mrs. Toomey, cautious and conservative as she was by nature and through many disappointments, could not resist the contagion of her husband's enthusiasm. To say that Toomey looked forward with eagerness to this meeting of the Boosters Club is to express it inadequately.
I was much amused to hear Hawley speak of these great spirits as if he and they were chums of long standing. "'Solomon has resigned from the club, he said, with a sad sigh. 'He was a good fellow, Solomon was, but he thought he knew it all until old Doctor Johnson got hold of him, and then he knuckled under.
Something of the home principle of male and female is necessary for the completeness even of a club. The Hyacinth Club-house looks upon Piccadilly and the Green Park.
I can scarcely wait until we get back again." So they began that summer as they had begun all others with work. But both of them took a new joy in everything, and the violin sang by the hour in the twilight. Edith Carr stood in a vine-enclosed side veranda of the Lake Shore Club House waiting while Philip Ammon gave some important orders.
Splendid intellectual effort to drive a cab from the Reform Club to the Bank, eh?" I had hoped to wither him. "Oh, I don't know," he answered, suavely. "I'll tell you this, though: I'd rather go from the Club to the Bank on my hansom with me holding the reins than try to do it with Mr. Gladstone or the Prince o' Wiles on the box." "Prince o' Wiles?" I said, with a withering manner.
Truly a fine result! A man may very well love beef, or hunting, or a woman; but surely, surely, not a Permanent Possibility of Sensation! He may be afraid of a precipice, or a dentist, or a large enemy with a club, or even an undertaker's man; but not certainly of abstract death.
"You haven't heard the latest about him?" "Trying to make some Club?" Whispering "On the edge of a crash." "Who told you?" "Oh, a little bird." Up came both palms to cover Gwendolyn's mouth. But not to smother mirth. A startled cry had all but escaped her. A little bird! She knew of that bird! He had told things against her true things more often than not to Jane and Miss Royle.
Of course, the tramp heard them, and turned in sudden alarm. As he turned, the farmer snatched the club from his hand, and he found himself unexpectedly unarmed and confronted by three enemies. "It's my turn now," said Lovett. "Do you surrender?"
To produce the greatest quantity of cooked food in a palatable form, at the minimum of cost, and with the maximum of nutrition, might save the country half a million of money, and many thousands of lives besides. With this object the Government fixed upon Monsieur Soyer of the Reform Club, and appointed him Head Cook to the people of Ireland.
"What has come over you to-night, Nettie? you look like a girl again." "And you were not sorry when you saw her, that that " "Sorry! I have been thinking all the way home how glad I was to have won my sweet wife. But we mustn't stay shut up at home as much as we have; it's not good for either of us. We are to be asked to join the whist club what do you think of that?
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