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It did not occur to Richard to ask the reason why this strange dummy had been created. It was all of a piece with the dream-like spirit which pervaded everything. Her explanation was voluntary. "It's to put in your bed," she said. "We'll take out the electric bulbs, then start the bells going. When they come in and you don't answer they'll go into the bedroom.
I'm an old whist-player, and when I play dummy, there's nothing I hate more than to see two or three small trumps in my partner's hand. 'I imagine you'll not be distressed in that way here. 'I've got enough to come through with; that is, the thing can be done if there be no extravagances. 'Does one want for more? cried Walpole theatrically. 'I don't know that.
The sailing was diversified by scrambling on shore. The return in the evening was still more beautiful. At dinner the German valet and Macdonald, the Highland forester, helped the footman to wait on the company. Whist, played with a dummy, and a walk round the little garden, "where the silence and solitude, only interrupted by the waving of the fir-trees, were very striking," ended the day.
Go on, Dummy, and half-a-dozen more of you throw in your links all together." The order was obeyed, after the torches had been waved into a fierce blaze, and they flew in, scattering drops of burning pitch, bringing forth an outburst of yells of rage and pain, and a quick movement showed that the marauders were about to rush out.
Had the man been her social equal or any other than her master, her pent-up wrath and indignation would have broken forth in a torrent of scathing abuse. "Never would I call the poor motherless lamb Dam, Sir," she answered with restraint. "Then call him Dummy! Good morning, Nurse," snapped the Colonel.
Uncle Ethan and the cases of medicine disappeared, and the old woman addressed her concluding remarks to little Tewksbury, her grandson, who stood timidly on one leg in the doorway, like an intruding pullet. "Everything around this place 'ud go to rack an' ruin if I didn't keep a watch on that soft-pated old dummy.
The latter, with so many amused glances turned their way, could only flush deeply, stammer, raise their hats and -fade away! The lesson was a needed and a remembered one. Laura and Belle took their afternoon walks in peace thereafter. "Get in there, Ripley! Don't be afraid. It's only a leather dummy. It can't hurt you! Now, tackle the dummy around the hips -hoist!"
The top half of the turbine cylinder having been lifted off, the spindle is set relatively to the bottom half by means of the lower thrust-block screw G. This screw is then locked in position and the top half of the cover then lowered into place. With this method great care must necessarily be exercised when lowering the top cover; otherwise the brass dummy rings may be damaged.
And when, to the bitter grief of her devoted husband, the dummy died all parties being then, at a rough estimate, forty and she herself, his dearest friend, stood by the dummy's grave with him, and, generally speaking, sustained him in his tribulation, a disposition to get the fool out of the way grew strong enough to make its victim doubt her own vouchers for her own absolute disinterestedness.
As the inscription of Aahmes which records the building of the dummy pyramid of Teta-shera is of considerable interest, it may here be translated.
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