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"Charley," she drawled wickedly, "I warn you to go slow. And I warn you not to interfere with me or I might interfere with you!" Morrell shrugged his shoulders, and turned away with an assumption of indifference. "Please yourself. But I can't afford a scandal just now." "You can't afford a scandal!" she cried, and laughed hardly. "Not just now," he repeated.
"What is the average weight of a copy of Punch?" drawled Artemas Ward, who had strolled in during the latter part of the conversation. Shakespeare snickered quietly, but Carlyle and Johnson looked upon the intruder severely. "We will take that question into consideration," said Carlyle. "Perhaps to-morrow we shall have a definite answer ready for you." "Never mind," returned the humorist.
Captain Deverax stared fixedly at Denry; then smiled vaguely and drawled, "Hullo! How d' do?" And they shook hands. "So you know him?" some one murmured to Denry. "Know him?... Since infancy." The inquirer scented facetiousness, but he was somehow impressed.
In the middle of the square, Achilles stopped a lighted sign had caught his eye. He hurried the child across the blur of tracks to the sign, and opened a door softly. A sleepy exchange-girl looked up and waited while Achilles's dark fingers searched the page and turned to her "Main four-four-seven " She drawled sleepily after him "Go in there number four."
One day when he had come to see us after dinner in Paris, and had begged pardon for being in evening clothes, Francoise, when he had gone, told us that she had got it from his coachman that he had been dining "with a princess." "A pretty sort of princess," drawled my aunt; "I know them," and she shrugged her shoulders without raising her eyes from her knitting, serenely ironical.
"You know," he drawled, "down in my home state, we sometimes make a mistake and slap a brand on a calf that's not really ours. Well, that's not so awful. But when somebody else makes the same mistake, it's stealin' pure and simple. War's a lot like that. We only see one side of it, and for my part, I'm fed up with seein' that side. Boy, I hone for Texas."
He smiled warmly. 'The high card bets, drawled Barbee. 'Oh! exclaimed Longstreet. 'Yes, to be sure. Let me see. His sparkling eye roved about the table. Barbee's exposed card was a jack, one of the Mexicans had a ten and the other a four. Longstreet felt both warmed with triumph and yet a little sorry for them. So he did the kind thing by them and bet only a dollar.
Vandersee," drawled Barry. "A bird flew through it. Pretty stout bird, hey?" "Bird? Surely you're joking, sir," laughed the second mate, his round face glowing with a jolly grin. "But I'll see that it's attended to."
'Why, there is your venerable guardian, Miss Kennedy! drawled out Mr. Kingsland, as Mr. Falkirk came in sight. 'How charming! Patriarchal. And who is that beyond? Dane Rollo! as I am a Christian! 'Evidently then, somebody else, said Mr. May. 'Who is it, Nightingale? But Mr. Nightingale knew his business better than to reply; and Dane presently spoke for himself.
"The dog in the cabin!" exclaimed Mr Vanslyperken, with apparent astonishment. "Why, how the devil could he have come there?" "He cummed off, I suppose, sir, same way as you did, without nobody knowing nothing about it," drawled out Smallbones, who then walked away. In the meantime the corporal had been picked up, and the men were attempting to recover him.
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