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"Well," she said drily, "I would like to think you were right about Harry; it would be a relief to me." Hawtrey, who said nothing further, presently drove away, and soon after he did so Agatha approached Mrs. Hastings. "There's something I must ask you," she said. "Has Gregory consented to take charge of Wyllard's farm?" "He has," said her companion in her dryest tone.
Everybody knows he'll be in the Cabinet. 'It may be a Liberal Cabinet, came from Stonor at his dryest. Farnborough leapt back into the fray. 'Nobody thought so up to last night. Why, even your brother he brought up short. 'But I'm afraid I'm really seeming rather too He took up his hat. 'What about my brother?
The grave, slab-sided mate of the schooner leaned over the rail, and spoke to the men in our boat: ``Where are you from? Joe answered up quick, ``From the Nor'west coast. ``What's your cargo? This was a poser; but Joe was ready with an equivoke. ``Skins, said he. ``Here and there a horn? asked the mate, in the dryest manner. The boat's crew laughed out, and Joe's glory faded.
In spite of their strange situation and doubtful prospects, the three adventurers slept early and soundly. When they awoke it was daybreak, and after chewing the hardest, dryest, and rawest of breakfasts, they began their preparations to reach the river.
But archaeologists are the narrowest and dryest of men, they preconceive a certain system of work and follow it out by mathematical rule and plan, without one touch of imagination to help them to discover new channels of interest or historical information.
Yet Old Dut, expert reader of pupils' eyes and glances, presently cast a bombshell by declaring in his dryest tone: "Any pupil who writes anything believed to be funny will be required to explain before the class just what he considers the joke to be. He will then also be required to laugh three times at his own joke." Here we will leave the Grammar School boys and girls for the present.
I wore my summer suit pretty well through that winter, and the following summer experienced the longest, dryest spell of all, in the period when salaried men are gone on vacation and manuscripts lie in editorial offices until vacation is over. My difficulty was that I had no one to advise me. I didn't know a soul who had written or who had ever tried to write. I didn't even know one reporter.
Reaping generally came about the 20th of July, the hottest and dryest part of the summer, and was the most pressing work of the year. It demanded early rising for the men, and it meant an all day broiling over the kitchen stove for the women. Stern, incessant toil went on inside and out from dawn till sunset, no matter how the thermometer sizzled.
I see him aloft, benevolent and hard, mildly massive, in a black dress coat and trousers and a white neckcloth that should have figured, if it didn't, a frill, and on the highest rostrum of our experience, whence he comes back to me as the dryest of all our founts of knowledge, though quite again as a link with far-off manners and forms and as the most "historic" figure we had ever had to do with.
The water used for this purpose is mostly, if not entirely, supplied from the draining pipes, even in the dryest season. The manure thus liquified is made by a comparatively small number of animals. Calves to the value of 50 pounds are bought, and fat stock to that of 500 pounds are sold annually.
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