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"Yes," assented the Mistress, cryptically "Sometimes dogs are pitifully human!" The child's parents were going to Europe for three months, that winter. The child himself was getting over a nervous ailment. The doctors had advised he be kept out of school for a term; and be sent to the country. His mother was afraid the constant travel from place to place, in Europe, might be too much for him.
She and Dick have hardly a taste in common they don't even read the same books." "What difference does that make?" "If you don't know I can't tell you. When you see somebody else in danger of following the same course of action that you, yourself, are pursuing," she added cryptically, "it puts a new face on your own affairs." "Oh! let's get out of here," Billy said, signaling for his check.
So I cornered Peter and put him through his paces. I began by telling him that I didn't seem to know a great deal about him. "The closed makimono," he cryptically retorted, "is the symbol of wisdom." I was ashamed to ask just what that meant, so I tried another tack. "Folks are thrown pretty intimately together, in this frontier life, like worms in a bait-tin.
"I have the same confidence in my wife's powers of persuasion that you seem to have, Aunt Abby; and though I may impose on her, I do want her to use them upon me deadly r-rival!" "You mean rival in your club election," returned Miss Ames, "but he is also your rival in another way." "Don't speak so cryptically, Aunt, dear. We all know of his infatuation for Eunice, but he's only one of many.
"You didn't see in the papers that he was nominated, did you, Paret?" "But if the mill people wanted him, George, how could it be prevented?" his wife demanded. George winked at me. "There are more ways of skinning a cat than one," he said cryptically. "Well, it's time to go to the meeting, I guess," remarked Ezra, rising. Once more he looked at his watch.
It will help you." "I can't afford one. Anyhow, dear guruji, if trouble comes, I fully believe you will protect me." "In a year you will bring three sapphires," Sri Yukteswar replied cryptically. "They will be of no use then." Variations on this conversation took place regularly. "I can't reform!" Sasi would say in comical despair.
When Brigit remarked rather sharply upon the ex-school teacher's popularity, Monny laughed an odd, understanding little laugh. "I believe you think you know why they're all so mad about that girl!" exclaimed Biddy. "Perhaps I do," smiled Miss Gilder. "What is her fascination?" "Bedr could have told you," Monny cryptically replied. "He told several people." "What do you mean, child?
Deliberation was in his manner, deliberation was in his speech. "Las' night, you mean. They hit out right after midnight." "Well, where did they go?" Lance ground his cigarette under his heel. "You might ask 'em when they git back," Shorty suggested cryptically, and closed the gate just as carefully as if forty freedom-hungry horses were milling inside the corral.
"This is all?" Jack said. "That's every bit of it. They repeated it half a dozen times, just like that." "Who repeated it?" Dal asked. "Where are the identification symbols?" "There weren't any," said Tiger. "Our own computer designated 31 Brucker from the direction and intensity of the signal. The question is, what do we do?" The message stared up at them cryptically. Dal shook his head.
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