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This seemed to care little for his reason and his will, nothing for his so-called elevated intentions, and moved him along, as a violent schoolmaster a schoolboy he has seized by the collar, in a direction which tended towards the embrace of a woman for whom he had no respect, and whose life had nothing in common with his own except locality.
Then Maria Mondmilch called out as she fell on him: "Little Schwertschwanz, do you love me " And already intoxicated: "He does not love me." The man fall back in utter indolence. The student spat on his collar. Rammed the hat on the head of the spineless man. Pressed a gold coin into his hand. Threw him out.
We'll press it out a bit, and we can put ma's handkerchief, the one pa gev her for Christmas, around his neck, sort o' sailor collar style, to show he's a boy. And now the snow is melted, I'll go at him.
I came as soon as I could." In a little while he called her to sit beside him; but this was more than I could bear. I lost control of myself and rushed upon him. He clutched my collar and we grappled in a death struggle. Suddenly she came behind me, caught my feet and threw me. While he held me on the ground, she drew out my own knife and gave it to him.
"Well, then, you will let me have it in my possession till I am paid, Mynheer Vanderdecken that is but fair. I must not lose my money. When you bring me my three guilders and a half and the phial, I will return it to you." Philip's indignation was now without bounds. He seized Mynheer Poots by the collar, and threw him out of the door. "Away immediately," cried he, "or by "
Both men bore traces in their appearance of the long journey which they had only just completed. "I think," Crawshay decided, yawning, "that I shall have a bath. I feel gritty, and my collar heavens, what a sight! Your trains, Hobson, may be magnificent, but your coal is filthy. I will have a bath while your friend, the policeman, makes up his mind whether to come and see us or not."
So she opened her eyes, put up her hand and unfastened the canteen from Jan's collar and swallowed such a big gulp of water that she almost choked. Her arms went about Jan's neck and while she clung, he moved slowly away from the mound, his tail waving rapidly and his big eyes full of pride. Ruth had been saved from a terrible death in the snow-drifts of the Alps!
Faut l'embrasser, tu sais." He gave her a kiss full on the lips. The little bride returned the kiss with unabashed fervor. Then she burst into a loud fit of laughter. "How silly you look, Jean, with your collar burst open." The groom's enthusiasm had been too much for his toilet; the noon sun and the excitements of the marriage service had dealt hardly with his celluloid fastenings.
'I once drove to Pashutino with him in half an hour. 'What? asked Nikita, who could not hear on account of his collar. 'I say I once went to Pashutino in half an hour, shouted Vasili Andreevich. 'It goes without saying that he's a good horse, replied Nikita. They were silent for a while. But Vasili Andreevich wished to talk.
"I'm going to look at my old nest," said a young Swallow, as she suddenly flew down to the eaves. "I think I'll go, too," said another young Swallow, springing away from his perch. He was a handsome fellow, with a glistening dark blue head and back, a long forked tail which showed a white stripe on the under side, a rich buff vest, and a deep blue collar, all of the finest feathers.
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