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If it's a straight break I can set the bone and save him." Chip, savage in his misery, regarded her over one square shoulder. "Are you a veterinary surgeon, may I ask ?" Miss Whitmore felt her cheeks grow hot, but she stood her ground. "I am not. But a broken bone is a broken bone, whether it belongs to a man or some OTHER beast!" "Y e-s?"
For the spelling of the seventeenth century, like its syntax and its pronunciation, was irregular; and the fatal error of those who attempt to imitate it is that they always use double consonants, superfluous final e-s, and ie for y.
I've felt, lately, that Eastern airs don't agree with my constitution." Miss Whitmore grew red as to cheeks and bright as to eyes. "I think a few small doses of Eastern manners would improve you very much," she said, pointedly. "Y e-s? They'd have to be small, because the supply is very limited." The Little Doctor grew white around the mouth. She held Concho's rein so tight he almost stopped.
This was touching a sore place in his memory. A vision of Dick Brown's vapid smile and curled up mustache rose before him. "I'd tell a man," he said, with faint irony. The Little Doctor gave him a quick, surprised look and went on. "I liked their playing so much. Mr. Brown was especially good upon the guitar." "Y e-s?" "Yes, of course. You know yourself, he plays beautifully."
"Well, you not exactly, but you implied that you did not." "Y e-s?" The Little Doctor gave the reins an impatient twitch. "Yes, yes YES!" No answer from Chip. He could think of nothing to say that was not more or less profane. "I think he's a very nice, amiable young man" strong emphasis upon the second adjective. "I like amiable young men." Silence.
Show me the woman who can set a hat straight upon her head without aid of a mirror! "We must get him up from there and into a box stall. There is one, isn't there?" "Y e-s " Chip hesitated. "I wouldn't ask the Old your brother, for the use of it, though; not even for Silver." "I will," returned she, promptly.
Ingleby says, "I have given a copy of Mr. Collier's fac-simile in sheet No. II., and alongside of that I have placed the impossible E in the Ralegh signature, and the almost exactly similar E which occurs in the emendation End, vice 'And, in the Bridgewater Folio. Below we give fac-similes of six E-s. No.
At last it was handed to Captain Pakenham, who, holding it up against the light, produced a magnifying glass from his pocket, through which he examined the paper. "I see traces of pencil marks. Yes; and the letters `w-i-t, then there is a blank, and `e-s, though an attempt has been made to rub it out, and probably the person who tried to do so fancied that he had succeeded.
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