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"Nothing an altercation merely with that drunken ostler of yours. He thought it was a plot to annoy him that the Young Lady in Grey was mythical. Judged from your manner. I've got a piece of raw meat to keep over it. You have some news, I see?" "Did the man hit you?" asked Widgery. Mrs. Milton rose and approached Dangle. "Cannot I do anything?" Dangle was heroic.
Felt the vital force and strength of him ebb and weaken so that the lean, slender fingers that groped for MacNair's throat closed feebly and dropped limp to dangle impotently from his nerveless arms.
Jimmie turned and raised a plump hand with a sharply-quirked little finger and a dangle of lace-edged handkerchief. "You're a swell, my dear. You're in with the specials and the classic knot." "What do you mean?" "You're going to read Gerty, or something no idiots admitted. You're going it, Hendy. Ta-ta. Fly! Don't stick in the mud, old slowcoach."
"I don't see anywhere to sit." "You'll have to stand," said Gabriele. "What do I do?" "Hold onto the railing," she scoffed. Lily grabbed it and began to dangle there like a leaf on a tree. "I guess you forgot me," she said timidly. "No, you said that you would come in the morning. I thought maybe you had decided against coming." Her expressions were hard.
We wants them tried immejiate. Thar ain't no need of lawyers an' jedges tew mix things up. We seed 'em kill th' miner, an' are willin' tew swear tew it, an' that otter be enough tew have 'em danglin' by their necks inside of half an hour." "They'll dangle, when they've been proven guilty, according to the laws of this city; and not before," answered the sheriff dryly.
I spent a day in the Dutoitspan Mine where I saw thousands of Kaffirs digging away at the precious blue substance soon to be translated into the gleaming stone that would dangle on the bosom or shine from the finger of some woman ten thousand miles away.
Having forfeited the authority of our humanity, the fish no longer obey us, and we have perforce to dangle for them with hooks and strings. The wolves and the tigers no longer stand off at our command, and we have to fall back upon camp-fires and pistols. It is very humiliating! The crown is fallen from our heads, and all things finned and furred and feathered mock us in our shame.
She will read his little story to the end, and close the book very tenderly and smooth down the cover; and then, when he least expects it, she will toss it into the dusty limbo of her other romances. She will let him dangle, but she will let him drop!" "Upon my word," I cried, with heat, "if she does, she will be a very unprincipled little creature!" Niedermeyer shrugged his shoulders.
"And meanwhile you go on banking " "If I didn't, some one else would." "And I live on Mr. Milton's Lotion while I try to gain a footing in Literature." "TRY!" said Phipps. "You HAVE done so." And, "That's different," said Dangle, at the same time. "You are so kind to me. But in this matter.
She was amused, too, by the thought that Lise's envy would be modified by the prospect of a heightened social status; since Lise, it will be remembered, had her Providence likewise. Hannah's god was not a Providence, but one deeply skilled in persecution, in ingenious methods of torture; one who would not hesitate to dangle baubles before the eyes of his children only to snatch them away again.
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