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He endeavored to avoid her by turning up the Burlington Arcade, but she was too quick for him, and was walking up the arcade by his side before he had been able to make up his mind as to the best mode of ridding himself of such a companion. "Ah, Mr. Clavering, I am so glad to see you. I was with Julie last night. She was fagged, very much fagged; the journey, you know, and the business.

Stabbed in his touchiness, he wrote for all his scrip to be handed over to him; and thereafter loss and gain depended on himself alone. It certainly brought a new element of variety into his life. The mischief was, he could get to his study of the money-market only with a fagged brain. And the fear lest he should do something rash or let a lucky chance slip kept him on tenter-hooks.

But after a day like the coal-carter's, where is the man that could even begin to refresh himself with the arts, or even the games, of civilization? For all the active use he can make of them those spare hours of his do not deserve to be called leisure; they are the fagged end of the day. Slouching home to them, as it were from under ten tons of coal, he has no energy left for further effort.

"Pretty, of course, but nothing will ever make her either great or wise. Sweet Molly is one of the angels of the world." She rose now to greet the brother and sister as they approached. The trouble round Guy's handsome eyes was not lost upon her. Poor Molly looked untidy, and quite worn and old. "Oh, how the ball has fagged you!" exclaimed Nora; "see how fresh I am, and kind Mrs.

His pay was large, and enabled him to put away a good sum every month, but his hours were long and he was too closely confined for a boy of his age. At the end of three months he showed this in his appearance. His good friend Pettigrew saw it and said one day, "Rodney, you are looking fagged out. You need a change." "Does that mean that you are going to discharge me?" asked Rodney, with a smile.

But she loved Eliphelet so well that she would do anything to please him, so she rode round with him on that circuit till she wuz perfectly fagged out. He wuz a dretful good man to her, but he wuz kinder poor and they had hard times to git along. But what property they had wuzn't taxed, so that helped some, and Huldah would make one dollar go a good ways.

"I must look pretty well to win that compliment from you. And how are you feeling? You don't seem robust for a golfer and horseman. But then I'm used to husky Westerners." "Oh, I'm fagged with the daily grind," he said. "I'll be glad to get up in the mountains next month. Let's go down to dinner."

Then she took her thumb nail and extracted the jammed cartridge and shook a second from the chamber. These she kept. The gun she threw from her with all her strength. She lost no time in urging her fagged horses up the steep hill opposite the ranch house on the road back to Crowheart. At the top she let them pant a moment before they started up another almost as steep. Dr.

Durlacher, then at that part of the handkerchief that her lips had touched. "One of the reasons? Oh no. I only noticed it. That's all right now. I believe you look better without it." "Well, I felt so fagged this evening." "I know; that's wretched. If you were a man, you'd drink; being a woman, you make up. It's much more respectable really.

'But, I say, he observed in surprised and awestruck tones, 'this is rather good. It seemed to strike him as quite a novel idea. 'Yes, not bad, is it? 'But it'll get the prize. 'Oh, we shall have to prevent that somehow. He did not mention how, and Lorimer did not ask. 'Well, anyhow, said Lorimer, 'thanks awfully. I hope you've not fagged about it too much.