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He had recklessly bound himself as apprentice for board and lodging; he had a few clothes on his body, and he had not thought other requisites necessary for one who did not stroll up and down and gad about with girls. But the town demanded that he should rig himself out. Sunday clothes were here not a bit too good for weekdays.

"Everything has gone off well; no one has seen me, and those two fools who might have upset my plans will wake up quite naturally when they begin to feel the cold; and they will attribute the headache they will probably feel to their tiring journey." A train, travelling in the opposite direction, suddenly roared past the window and made him jump. He started up, and smiled. "'Gad!

So Constantine went to Florida alone, to find his daughter revelling in new frocks and flirtations, both of which she temporarily sidetracked while she made her father give his consent to having the house done over after the manner of a Frascati villa. "Gad," commented her father, during the heat of the argument, "I thought you were pretty well off as you were. Will Steve like it?"

It ain't my grave you're digging." "Aw, Hat!" "I 'ain't got your dolly face and your dolly ways with the boys; but I got enough sense to live along decent." "You're right pretty, I think, Hat." "Oh, I could daub up, too, and gad with some of that fast gang if I didn't know it don't lead nowheres.

"Father's daguerreotype and the bracelet of mother's hair?" "I've grabbed off the whole bag of tricks!" he cried. "Look at 'em! We've not seen so much of the real stuff in six months. "Ten twenty thirty forty fifty By gad! sixty seventy!" "What are they?" asked Mabel curiously. "Some bonds what?" "I should say so!" he retorted gaily.

'From Reuben and Simeon down to Gad and Asher, his life shall be required at their hands. Oh, it was a red-hot-cannon-ball-firing sermon, and Solomon Barzinsky could not resist leaning across and whispering to the Parnass: 'Wasn't I right in refusing to vote for Rochinsky? This reminder of his candidate's defeat was wormwood to the Parnass, spoiling all his satisfaction in the sermon.

It inflated his uxorious breast with pride to have his Henrietta shine in hospitality thus. But his lean shanks wearied, keeping time to the giddy music. Wistfully he feared he must be going downhill, wasn't altogether the man he used to be, since he found the business of pleasure so exhaustingly strenuous. And that was beastly unfair to his lovely wife wouldn't do, would not do at all, by Gad!

He took the coins from his pocket, and jerked them on the table before her. "Here, pay the butcher with it." But as he reached the door, his face working, the tremendous and magnificent thought struck into his realisation again. "I'm in the Army! By gad, I'm in the Army. I don't care what happens now." He strode back, smiling, and took up the money. "No, I'm dashed if I can let it go!"

It wasn't even like something you could hold in your hand. It was just something somebody wrote down on some pieces of paper. Maybe you didn't understand that it was all of her hopes and dreams " "Gad! What a Sunday School you do keep!" he sneered. He tried to pass her. He had jammed his hat back upon his head.

"Beaumerville's getting quite the old man," remarked Lord Lathon, as he helped himself to an ortolan. "Looks jolly white about the gills to-night, doesn't he?" His neighbor, a barrister and wearer of the silk, adjusted his eyeglass and looked down the table. "Gad, he does!" he answered. "Looks as though he's had a shock." "Not at all in his usual form, at any rate," put in Mr.