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"Then why do you pretend you have?" "I only meant that I would do my best." "Only meant, only meant! Have you done your best at everything else, then?" I hung my head. This was a facer. And there was something in my invalid which thrust the unspoken lie down my throat. "No, sir, I have not," I told him plainly.
"'Fossils, he said, worrying the edge of the excavation with his spade 'fossils are not things to be lightly considered. "'No, indeed! I protested. "'Fossils are the most interesting as well as puzzling things in the world, said he. "'They are! I cried, enthusiastically. "'But I am not looking for fossils, observed the professor, mildly. "This was a facer. I looked at Daisy Holroyd.
Don't fancy any story-book foolishness about spoiling his life. That may be true of halfling boys, maybe, but a man goes his ain gait even when he gets a bit facer." "Yes," she agreed. And in a flash she saw what would happen, that in the reaction from his depression he would turn to Genevieve Mallory and marry her. "You're too young for me, anyhow, too soft and innocent.
"You're a lucky man. . . . Where did Cap'n Hunken keep his?" "Darn'd if I know. Somewheres about. He was always a bit careless over his securities and so I've told him a dozen times," "When did you tell him last?" This was a facer, and it made Cai blink. "We haven't discussed these things much not of late," he answered lamely. "I reckoned not. He don't keep 'em in his strong-box?"
It was something of a facer, and it set me to wondering. Why was I so eager? Could it be possible that there was anything in the speculation of my servants? I recalled the sensation of supreme delight that shot through me when I received her note, but after that a queer sort of oblivion seems to have surrounded me, from which I was but now emerging in a timely struggle for self-control.
He had had a facer, but he had also shown the witness to have been living under an assumed name. That was a good start. He hoped to add to the discredit. He had absolutely no knowledge of Crozier's origin and past; but he was in a position to find it out if Crozier told the truth on oath, and he was sure he would. "Where was your domicile in the old country?" Burlingame asked.
It appealed to him immensely that she could take such a facer and come up smiling. There were no signs of worry wrinkles on her face when the maid admitted a caller half an hour later. Oliver Dustin was the name on the card. He was a remittance man, a tame little parlor pet whose vocation was to fetch and carry for pretty women, and by some odd trick of fate he had been sifted into the Northland.
This facer, coming upon the top of all the hard work I had been doing, and possibly my nerves were somewhat strained by my anxiety, led me to say more than I intended. Though a man may have the bad luck to fail in a thing, he seldom likes to be reminded of it. It was certainly so in my case.
By Jove! that was a facer! His eye's closed he's down! Not a bit of it-how do you like that? Unfair, unfair! No such thing! I say it was! Not at all I deny it! "By this time we had approached the combatants, each man patting his own fellow on the back, and encouraging him by the most lavish promises.
A bold contradiction, a stinging sarcasm, or a caustic retort, would have been worth any thing just then to take off the cloying taste of the everlasting honey. She roused herself at these last words enough to ask languidly, "What has he done?" There could not be a simpler question, nor one put more carelessly; but it was rather a "facer" to Mr.
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