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The captain was for giving it a wide berth, but Dr Cuff made such strong representations as to the condition of the passengers, that, with a very bad grace, he stood towards it. Brightly the sun shone forth, and, with a light breeze, we soon found ourselves enjoying a summer climate.
Moreover, he humbled himself to her and kissed her hands and feet, whilst she would not be appeased and continued to cuff him. At last, she winked at the old woman to come and hold her hand from him.
This was not so strange a thing to him now, and he knew the remedy for it, which is much the same as with others whose tempers run too high, that is a taste of it themselves. Mr. Tebrick shook her and gave her a smart little cuff, after which, though she sulked, she stopped her biting.
Her eyes challenged him for a moment, and he laughed. "Mais oui, madame! I protest a new experience. I feel I am doing my duty." "And it doesn't bore you?" questioned Toby, with a tilt of the chin. His look kindled a little. "If we were on board the old Night Moth, you'd have had a cuff for that," he remarked. "I wish we were!" she said daringly. He flicked his fingers.
The name of him was Sergeant Cuff; and the arrival of him from London might be expected by the morning train. At reading the name of the new police-officer, Mr. Franklin gave a start. It seems that he had heard some curious anecdotes about Sergeant Cuff, from his father's lawyer, during his stay in London. "I begin to hope we are seeing the end of our anxieties already," he said.
But scarcely had I done so, when a shout of laughter came gathering up the street, and soon after poor drunken Robin was brought along by the cuff of the neck, between two of the town-officers, one of them carrying his drum.
Fright inspired his latent histrionic genius; momentarily he became almost a good actor. "Thank God!" he exclaimed fervently. "You're the one woman in a thousand who knows enough to look before she shoots! Phwew!" Quite naturally he drew a braided blue cuff across a beaded forehead. "That's all very well," the woman took him up sharply "but be careful I don't shoot after looking.
It is the Lycosa, who hurriedly scampers out and posts herself just over the orifice of the burrow, in her posture of defence, her fangs open, her four front legs uplifted. Can the other have been stabbed? Not at all, for she emerges in her turn, not without receiving on the way a cuff from the Spider, who immediately regains her lair.
She had a wee gold pencil on her gold bangle, but we had no paper and there was none there there wasn't anything, in fact, except a box. "On your cuff," Joyce suggested, but I hadn't any cuffs, only a soft shirt. "On the floor," she said then. I tried, but of course the lead broke. They all gathered round, much interested, pushing their shiny black heads close together.
The blacksmiths' shop was close to the carpenters', and Harry seized every opportunity that offered of plying the hammer, the file, and the chisel, in preference to the saw and the plane. Many a cuff did the foreman of carpenters give him for absenting himself from his proper shop and stealing off to the smithy.
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