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Among the gentlemen I recall Lord Augustus Hervey, who disguised himself so completely as a jester that no one could make out who he was. He said saucy things as a court fool. He even guyed his own wife, and she never mistrusted she was flirting with her own husband, but then, as she was ready to flirt with anybody, it made no difference."
"And please may I wipe off my eyebrows?" "Why, sure! to both questions," answered Luck, going over to his camera. "I can't do much more till I get more negative, even with the light right, which it isn't. You go ahead and finish the stage this afternoon. And be sure the uprights are guyed for a high wind; she sure can blow, in this man's country." "You're danged right, she can blow!"
"And here's why: if Russell didn't kill her, Webster did." "Why, you've weakened!" the old man guyed head bent over his whittling. "You had Russell's goose cooked this morning roasted to a rich, dark brown!" "Yes; and if I could break down his alibi, I'd still have him cooked!" "You accept the alibi, then?" "Sure, I accept it." "I don't." "Why don't you?" objected Crown.
Lawford Tapp sometimes speculated on that shirt how it chanced to be in Cap'n Abe's stock and why it had hung there until the flies had taken title to it! Centrally located was the stove, its four heavily rusted legs set in a shallow box which was sometimes filled with fresh sawdust. The stovepipe, guyed by wires to the ceiling, ran back to the chimney behind Cap'n Abe.
So two stout poles were secured and laid across our two large canoes as they rested about a foot apart and parallel to one another. Then, the poles being lashed to the thwarts, a single "four-point" blanket was rigged horizontally to two masts, one standing in each canoe and both guyed with tump-lines, and leaning away from each other in order to spread the improvised sail.
It hurt his leg again. Velo picked him up and was so sorry that for once Zaidos felt a twinge of remorse when he thought of the way he had guyed him. But the nurse, who had been transferred to the land hospital also, pressed her lips tight together and thought hard. Zaidos was almost too unlucky.
The attention the Fake received, the time devoted to it, the money which it absorbed, were incredible. It was all one that impostor after impostor was exposed; it was all one that the clubs, the circles, the societies were proved beyond doubt to have been swindled. The more the Philistine press of the city railed and guyed, the more the women rallied to the defence of their protege of the hour.
The captain, eager for easting, made a fair wind of it, and guyed the booms out wing and wing. The puffs were heavy, but short; there was nothing to be called a squall, no danger to the ship, and scarce more than usual to the doubtful spars.
There was mostly men folk aboard, and we lay around the deck in our pajamas, while Billy Gaston Maundeville, dressed in striped red and white pajamas clum up in that bally pulpit, with the ship's Shakespeare in his hands, an' let us have 'The quality o' mercy isn't strained; it droppeth as the genteel dew from heavun. Laugh, I tell you I was sore with it. Lord, how we guyed him!
As he carried in the last of the kindling, the second tent arose against the background of trees. "Say," he called eagerly, "let's help there." The tent squad made a place for him. He seemed tireless. By and by, with the last tent up and the last rope guyed, he wiped the sweat from his face and grinned. "Doesn't look like Lonesome Woods now, does it?" Mr. Wall's watch showed four o'clock.
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