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He went pale and paler while we stood talking it over, and crossed himself he was a Catholic furtively behind the water-butt. "I ain't never 'a' been keen on ha'nts anyhow, Mr. Dixon," he told me aggrievedly at dinner that evening. "I got no use for 'em. I ain't never known any good to come o' anything with a ha'nt tagged to it, an' we're makin' a ill beginnin' o' this island business, Mr.
There, everybody would remember him and if there was a stranger known to be in the house, they would be sure to guess it was Frederick; while here, nobody knows or cares for us enough to notice what we do. Dixon will keep the door like a dragon won't you, Dixon while he is here? 'They'll be clever if they come in past me! said Dixon, showing her teeth at the bare idea.
"'Dixon, said Mason, 'the work of half my life, my everlasting timepiece, just completed and set going, has found a temperature where it requires no compensation balance. "'I am glad of it, said his associate, 'for now we can proceed with Mason and Dixon's line, and nothing else!
My poor Maria! 'Oh, papa! don't imagine such things, said Margaret, shocked. 'She is not well, that is all. Many a one is not well for a time; and with good advice gets better and stronger than ever. 'But has Dixon said anything about her? 'No!
Dixon that Dinah Diamond always had come off best in a fight and I believed she always would, and the result justified my boast. "It happened that Dinah had three little kittens hidden away in the wood-shed chamber, and you can imagine under these circumstances, when even the most timid animals are bold, how fierce such a cat as Dinah would be.
At any rate, van Manderpootz was impressed. "Well!" he rumbled. "I almost missed you, Dixon. I was just going over to the club, since I didn't expect you for an hour. You're only ten minutes late." I ignored this. "Professor, I want to use your uh your subjunctivisor." "Eh? Oh, yes. You're lucky, then. I was just about to dismantle it." "Dismantle it! Why?" "It has served its purpose.
There was a sort of door in the frame of ground glass over the barrier to admit of speech with visitors. This door Hewitt pushed wide open, and left so. He and the engineer went into the inner office. "Would you like to ask Worsfold and Ritter any questions?" Mr. Dixon inquired. "Presently.
"No," said she, smiling; "at any rate not till you are older. You see at present then, I cannot earn money, if I want a little more than usual to help a sick neighbour. I must then try and save money. Nearly every one can do that." "Can we, mother? We are so careful of everything. Ned Dixon calls us stingy: what could we save?" "Oh, many and many a little thing.
It leaves the whole of my property to you, subject to certain directions as to the works of art to a provision for old Dixon, and so on. You can't witness it, of course, nor can Dixon; otherwise it might be signed to-night. But if we come to an understanding to-night, I can sign it to-morrow morning and get a couple of men from the farm to witness it. I think I can promise to live so long!"
Give you back your ring! Why, what do you mean?" and Estelle, her face flashing her indignation, stepped out into the hall. "I mean you might have borrowed it," went on Miss Dixon, not a whit daunted. "Oh, it isn't anything. I've often done the same thing myself when we've been playing on circuit. It's all right if you give things back." "But I haven't taken anything of yours!" cried Estelle.
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