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All those tenders and store-ships of ours are going on southwest by west to New York to make a floating depot for us. See?" He dabbed his forefinger on the map. "Here we are. Our train of stores goes there, our battleships elbow the Americans out of our way there."
But, what I was about to say is, that precious as honours are to the humble, I would cheerfully yield every hope of the sort I have, to see you on the poop of the Cæsar again, with Mr. Cornet at your elbow, leading the fleet, or following the motions of the vice-admiral." "Thank you, my good Parker; that can never be; nor can I say, now, that I wish it might.
Rivers could only think of the pedler, and yet, such was his habitual contempt for that person, that he dismissed the thought the moment it came into his mind. Troubled thus in spirit, and filled with a thousand conflicting notions, he had almost reached the rocks, when he was surprised to perceive, on a sudden, close at his elbow, the dwarfish figure of our old friend Chub Williams.
Lentulus stepped nearer to the light, and read: Lucius standing by and hanging on every word, Cornelia remaining at her previous station rigid as the bronze faun on the pedestal at her elbow. Lentulus read: "Sextus Fulvius Flaccus, to the most noble lady Cornelia: If you are well it is well with me.
One rubs me with his elbow and the other applies that brass knuckle, then they gets pinched. I got dressed up in a drug store, got the chauffeur's license number, and goes on down to my office to see this girl. She's hysterical about his family using all their money to put her in jail. I looks at her, and says, 'You won't need their money to get to jail.
"There: make yourself comfortable and here are the cigars you like." He placed them at my elbow and continued to wander up and down the room, stopping now and then beneath the picture. "How it happened? I can tell you in five minutes and it didn't take much longer to happen.... I can remember now how surprised and pleased I was when I got Mrs. Stroud's note.
He never raised his eyes as he worked except to refer to the notebook at his elbow. The passage of time seemed of no moment to him. Yet at the soft opening of the door, he did look up for an instant, a gleam of expectancy upon his face that died immediately. "All right, Sammy, directly," he said, returning without pause to his work.
"Here they come, sir," said the soldier-servant respectful, mindful of his place even at this moment. Jack Meredith merely sat down behind the little table where his breakfast stood untouched. He leant his elbow on the table and watched the approach of the disorderly band of blacks. Some ran, some hung back, but all were armed.
"And you mean to tell me," said the gentle voice of the Divorcée at his elbow, "that you calmly face the idea of the hundreds of thousands of men, well and strong to-day dead to-morrow, the thought of the mothers who have borne their sons in pain, and bred them in love, only to fling them before the cannon?" "For what, after all, are we born?" said the Doctor.
Mr Pecksniff only answered by a nudge of the elbow, which might either be construed into an indignant remonstrance or a cordial assent; but which, in any case, was an emphatic admonition to his chosen son-in-law to be silent. He then proceeded to do the honours of the house with his accustomed ease and amiability.
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