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I am told she is a magnificent creature; beautiful, sensible, brilliant, and mistress of many languages." "Not to be compared with the blonde, though." "I cannot say," replied Norton, "having not yet seen her. You will get very fond of her, of course." "Fond 'gad, I hope it will never come to that with me.
In it was stuck a long nail and to the nail was fastened a tag. Kennedy read it quickly. "If this had been a bomb, you and your detectives would never have known what struck you. "Good Gad, man!" exclaimed Verplanck, who had read it over Craig's shoulder. "What do you make of THAT?" Kennedy merely shook his head. Mrs. Verplanck was the calmest of all. "The light," I cried. "You remember the light?
"By gad, Sergeant," he observed pleasantly, "I don't think anybody could be such a rascal as you look. It's that faith that carries me through." The Sergeant helped him off with his coat. "It's some people's stock-in-trade," he remarked, "not to look a rascal like they really are, sir." The "sir" stuck out of pure habit; it carried no real implication of respect. "Meaning me!" laughed Beaumaroy.
A man is there whom you must watch the landlord." "One of the gangs?" Mr. Brunger asked, hoarse excitement in his voice. "Gang B leader. Don't let him suspect you. Just watch him." "Has he got the cat?" With great impressiveness George looked at the detective, looked at Bill. Bill cried: "By Gad!" The detective rubbed his hands in keen anticipation. They entered the inn.
But I mustn't talk about it. I may have to try it." "Gad! you'll be committing contempt of yourself," suggested the Captain. "Like that snake that swallows itself, eh?" "What snake?" asked the Captain, with interest. "The snake in the story," answered the Chief Justice; and he added in an undertone "Why can't that fellow sit still?" Mr.
"It is strange. That mare Lizzette is a wonder, an' by gad, sah, didn't the old pacer come? By gad, but if he'd begun that drive jus' fifty yards sooner our money" Flecker groaned: "We're gone, Colonel one thousand we put up and the one we hedged with." "By gad, sah, but, Flecker, don't you think Lizzette went smoother that last heat? She had a different stride, a different gait."
"Everybody has him," she concluded; and the explanation brought certain calm into the mildly surprised eye behind the eye-glass. White recognized the phrase and its conclusive contemporary weight. "Here's a flat-backed man!" he exclaimed, with a ring of relief. "Been drilled, this man. Gad! He's proud!" added the major, as the new-comer passed Joan with rather a cold bow.
And Marinus Folts didn't say anything to the contrary yesterday. Why shouldn't they be well? They don't do anything but gad about, these days. Daisy hasn't done a stitch of work all summer but knit a couple of comforters and the time she's been about it! When I was her age I could have knit the whole side of a house in less time. One of them is for you." Dear girl, I had wronged her, then.
About the effect on his legs he was not quite so sure and at that moment his body was swaying ominously, but thanks to his clutching a high backed chair he maintained his equilibrium fairly well. "Idiot," snarled the young gentleman whose temper inebriation had soured, "why the devil didn't you come here earlier? The coup might have been brought off to-night. Gad, I want rousing.
Now, this young Nicanor is a gad that tickles Titus when his soft heart would urge him into tendernesses toward the enemy. But for Nicanor, Titus would have withdrawn his legions long ago and left Jerusalem to die of its own violences.
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