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"I guess he couldn't help that," Walter observed. "We're liable to go to the poorhouse the way it is. Well, what's the matter our walkin' to this rotten party?" "In the rain, Walter?" "Well, it's only a drizzle and we can take a streetcar to within a block of the house." Again his mother shook her head. "It wouldn't do." "Well, darn the luck, all right!" he consented, explosively.
"Oh, well, I wouldn't wonder if, when Rhoda sees him again now, she sees what a poor creature it is, after all. It may be a turning-point with her, and who knows will she perhaps settle down afterwards and be a reasonable girl and darn her stockings and wear a collar?" "If one is to talk of stockings," began Hilary, "I noticed Caterina's to-day, and really, you know...."
"Now that'll be about enough of that! You want to know how you scare him? First you deliberately fire some question at him that you know darn well he can't answer any fool could see you were experimenting with him and then you shock him by talking of mistresses or something, like you were doing just now " "Of course the pure Samuel never speaks of such erring ladies in his private conversations!"
I'm no pilot, of course, but I do know good compensation when I see it, and if you weren't compensating that point I never saw it done. Besides, with your skill and my figures I know darn well that we aren't off more than a tenth of one division. He's cuckoo! Don't call him let him start it, and refer him to me." "All x I'll be only too glad to pass the buck.
And if I don't, and go back for my money, he'll well, firing squad won't be any kidding, is what I mean. "O-h-h, no! Captain Riley can't fool me! Wouldn't tell me to get Schwab over here didn't dare tell me. But he makes it worth a whole lot to me to get him, just the same. He knows darn well if I don't I'll never dare to go back, and he'll be over seven thousand dollars better off."
"Senile yourself!" cried Uncle Henry, mad through and through, feeling he was immune from any attack. "Gol darn you!" So there was no shutting Uncle Henry up! Gilbert, in despair, turned to Pell. "You don't believe it! You can't believe it!" he said. "This is madness " Pell said not a word; he seemed to be in deep thought.
The whole world's fightin'. Uncle Sam's fightin'. Al was fightin'. You're fightin'. I'm fightin'. It's a darn sight easier to quit, a darn sight, but but Al didn't quit. And and we mustn't not if we can help it," he added, drawing a hand across his forehead. His agitation seemed to surprise Captain Zelotes. "So all hands are fightin', are they, Labe," he observed.
Evidently the attendant didn't hear, for there was no answer, so Bink said in a louder tone, "Say, look here, I want a program"; still there was no response and Bink was beginning to look sore when Scottie yells out, "Come away from there, you darn fool; are you going to talk to that wax figure all day?" Scottie would have "cashed in" right there if Bink could have caught him.
"Why," answered Westley, looking very earnest, "just go up to him in a quiet, refined manner no blustering, understand and say in a low tone, kind of off-hand but serious, 'Now, look a' here, Potts, old boy, let's talk this thing over like a couple of gentlemen had ought to. 'Well, all right, says Potts, 'that's fair I couldn't refuse that as from one gentleman to another gentleman. Well, then, say to him, 'Now, Potts, you know as well as any man in this town that you're an all-round no-good you're a human Not and a darn scalawag into the bargain.
Them things that's ticklin' your whiskers is the conductors of that boss fixin' o' yourn. If I was you, I'd lie still until the battery runs down. 'Darn it all, said Ned, afraid to lift his lips for a shout, and coming out in cold water all over the forehead, 'it wont run down for a week clear. 'That'll answer me nicely, I replied. 'Good-bye, Mr.
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