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"Well, then," said Huish, "you give me your 'and across the table, and say, 'Gawd strike me dead if I don't back you up." His voice was hardly raised, yet it thrilled the hearer. His face seemed the epitome of cunning, and the captain recoiled from it as from a blow. "What for?" said he. "Luck," said Huish. "Substantial guarantee demanded." And he continued to hold out his hand.
I haven't slept a wink for four nights." "Why don't you get some dope?" "Oh, we all ain't had a cent to spare for anythin', Andy." "Oh, if we had kale we could live like kings not," said Al in the middle of a nervous little giggle. "Look, Chris," said Andrews, "I'll halve with you. I've got five hundred francs." "Jesus Gawd, man, don't kid about anything like that."
So I says, 'Jenny, I'll step over to Ruddy's shack and ask him for that money. She says, 'Think you'd better? and I says, 'Sure. So she puts me up a snack of lunch, and I takes my rifle and starts. He slaps his thigh, and laughs, and looks astonished, and then he says: 'My Gawd, Lou, if I hadn't clean forgot!
The factory girl, if she heard those anguished cries, would as like as not shrug her shoulders and remark: “Ugh! she sh'u'dda seen ——'s factory where I worked a year ago.” Or, “Gawd! what does she think a person's goin' to do—sit home all day and scrub the kitchen?” And yet the fact remains that some things get too much on even a philosophical factory girl's nerves.
Fifth Army fair smashed up." "Good Gawd!" "Ten miles into our lines." "Oh, 'ell!" "Took thirty thousand prisoners Gawd knows 'ow many guns." "Thousands of casualties." "And 'ave we stopped 'im?" "No still fallin' back." Pessimism, something akin to consternation, found a hold upon the mental outlook of the troops in the sector.
I'll stay here with Al and talk French to the M. P.'s if they come. We'll fool 'em somehow." Andrews felt suddenly amused and joyous. "Honest to gawd, Andy, Ah'd stay if it warn't that that sergeant knows," said Chrisfield in a jerky voice. "Beat it, Chris. There may be no time to waste." "So long, Andy." Chrisfield slipped out of the door.
I ain't say so to de Jedge, but I 'low when you see bug you can't see wid yo' eye, you best not seem um 'tall case he must be some kind o' spook, an' Gawd knows I ain't want to see no spook. Ef de bug ain't no spook, den he mus' be eenside yo' haid, 'stead o' outside um, an' to hab bug on de eenside o' yo' haid is de wuss kind o' bad luck.
All domestic training was cast aside, not a moment could be lost "All on ye! dey's murder outside somebody go git de colonel! Oh, Gawd! somebody git 'im quick!" Few heard him and nobody paid any attention to his entreaties; nor could anybody, when they did listen, understand what he wanted the men swearing under their breath, the girls indignant that he had blocked their way. Mrs.
Wot I take to is smooth-faced young chaps." "Don't take any stock in her nonsense," the Fraction King warned, "She just does it a-purpose to get me mad." "Now then!" she commanded, sharply. "Step up to your licker! 'Ere's 'ow!" "What'll it be?" cried Blanche from the stove. The elevated mugs wavered and halted. "The Queen, Gawd bless 'er!" the Virgin toasted promptly. "And Bill!"
In spite of the efforts which brought beads of perspiration out on the broad forehead of their host, Essie Tisdale appeared with the first course mid a ghastly silence. "I hardly ever drink tea," observed Mr. Rhodes, for the purpose, merely, of making conversation. "Oh, my Gawd, Tinhorn, that ain't tea, it's bullion!" Mrs.
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