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I don't like to take the time to monkey around with a lot of silver; besides, it sort of weights one down." He paused long enough to let that sink in, then continued: "The thing I'd have paid most of my attention to excepting for keeping a watchful eye on the men against the wall an' the windows an' doors would have been the safe.
The same relation furnished Desborough's address to Mrs. Blanchflower, and a letter from the lady reached him: "I have no reproaches to make, excepting that I am sorry you should think that we would pursue you." Desborough wrote back: "I cannot do more than guess the accusation you lay against me. I acted as I thought was best, and I give you my word that I would die before hurting you or yours.
I shall go through all the streams and ponds around here, excepting Connaught Water. That I shall leave to the last, as it will be a case of dredging from a boat and isn't so likely as the smaller ponds. Perhaps the head will be there; it's deeper than any of the others."
Now, tell me, did Mlle. Susy d'Orsel expect any other visitor? Any friend?" "Nobody that I knew of ... at least that's what she said to her lace-maker one of my tenants ... a very good young girl, Mlle. Marie Pascal She said like this 'I'm expecting my lover, but she mentioned nobody else." "And this Marie Pascal is the last person who saw Susy d'Orsel alive, excepting, of course, the King?
This singular mode of execution naturally excited the surprise of civilized nations. The Bohemians justified it as a national custom, and saw nothing remarkable in the whole affair, excepting that any one should have got up again safe and sound after such a fall. A dunghill, on which the imperial commissioners chanced to be deposited, had saved them from injury.
There are no animals on the Islands, excepting rats; and by these little quadrupeds they are literally overrun. The number of all the inhabitants, men, women, and children, is probably between five and six hundred. The following may be given as prominent characteristics of the natives. They are in general, well made and handsome very indolent and superstitious.
I know the fact, at all events. His head was bald, the hair, he used to affirm, having been blown off in a heavy gale of wind off Cape Horn, excepting a few stumps, which he managed to keep on by clapping both hands to the side of his head, to save the rim of his hat when the crown was carried away.
In all other respects, always excepting the man at the wheel, who stood within a fathom of Rose, Spike had the quarter-deck to himself, and did not fail to pace its weather-side with an air that denoted the master and owner.
But in every other way excepting his habit of rooting up the ground with his nose, he is a wholly different fellow. For one thing his legs, though short, are more slender and he is a fast runner. There isn't a lazy bone in him, and he is too active to grow fat.
The lady arrived in time: she received the cards of the neighbourhood, and signalized her eccentricity by paying no attention to them, excepting the card of a Mrs. Baerens, who had audience of her at once.
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