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The three Hubbells were thoroughly nice people. Mary Hubbell was more than thoroughly nice. She was a darb. She had done a completely good job during the 1918-1918 period, including the expert driving of a wild and unbroken Ford up and down the shell-torn roads of France.
But it does seem like fate or something that the harder I try and not get mixed up in a flirtation I can't turn around you might say but what they's some gal poping up on my trail and if it was anybody else only Miss Moselle I wouldn't mind but she is a darb and I wouldn't do nothing to hurt her for the world but they can't nobody say this is my fault.
"There's Jim Carpenter and Derby," he exclaimed, and whistled in response. A moment later Derby strolled up from the grove, followed by the chattering Mr. Van Truder. "That you, Joe?" "Hello, Darb. Good! Where's Jim?" Some one whistled sharply off to the left, and then Jim Carpenter came hurrying up, the head-waiter close behind. "Hello, Joe.
Jinni are able to get sufficiently near to heaven to hear the conversation of the angels, and there are various incantations to make them reveal the whereabouts of hidden treasures. One called darb el mendel, carried on with a handkerchief, is much in vogue.
In the meantime, I called you over to take a ride in this projector it's a darb. I'd like to shoot for the Fenachrone system first, but I don't quite dare to." "Don't dare to? You?" scoffed Margaret. "How come?" "Cancel the 'dare' change it to 'prefer not to. Why?
"Yes, sir. He sure is. And he's a darb, Lieutenant." "So I hear. Piling up quite a record. How many of the old gang still here, Williams?" "Not many. If the Hun doesn't get 'em, nerves and the smell of castor-oil does. Half a dozen of 'em gone flooey in the stomach. Couldn't eat enough to keep a bird alive and couldn't keep that down. It's a tough game, Lieutenant.
On the Darb el Ma'ala, or Medina Road, a caravan bearing the annual mahmal gift of money, jewels, fine fabrics, and embroidered coverings for the Ka'aba temple, cut loose with rifles and old blunderbusses. Dogs began to bark, donkeys to bray, camels to spit and snarl. The whole procession fell into an anarchy of hate and fear.
"Yes, and you've been gong enough letting here I mean long enough getting here," said a voice, as Harry Rattleton hurried forward. "Browning is nearly starved. He's entertaining the girls. Hodge and I have been watching for you the last hour, and we Great Halifax! is this Stick Darbright and Made Dorgan er, I mean Darb Stickbright and Morg Dadean er, er, no, I mean I dunno what I mean! It's um!
"Oh, Darby!" cried a voice, "I've got him this way quick oh, Darb " My fist drove into his ribs; I struggled up under a rain of blows, and we struck and swayed and staggered and struck trampling the groaning wretch who lay dying in the ditch. And before me was the pale oval of a face, and I smote it twice with my pistol-butt, and it was gone, and I was running along the road.
So he set off with me and brought up in the twinkling of an eye at a street known as Darb al-Munkari, where I said to him, "Go in and ask for the Syndic's mansion." He was absent a while and then returned and said, "Alight."
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