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This speech was made quietly and with all the customary Winslow deliberation and apparent calm, but there was one little slip in it and that slip Babbitt was quick to notice. "Oh, my!" he sneered. "Ruth's what we call her, eh? Ruth! Got so chummy we call each other by our first names. Ruthie and Jeddie, I presume likely. Aw, haw, haw!"
Bragg, with the slightest possible touch of his cap, which he still kept on. 'Mr. Sponge, sir! indeed, sir Mr. Sponge, sir pray who may he be, sir? 'Oh why hay hum haw he's Mr.
It hurt me properly, that's a fact, and has most broke my crupper bone. And she put her hand behind her, and moaned piteous. "'Pig skin, sais I, 'aunty, is well enough when made into a saddle, but it ain't over pleasant to ride on bare back that way, sais I, 'is it? And them bristles ain't quite so soft as feathers, I do suppose. "I thought I should a died a holdin' in of a haw haw that way.
I have had a great deal of experience in trying to prevail upon prominent men to deliver addresses in Illinois, and I know how they always hesitate, and hem and haw, then, if they do accept, destroy all feelings of gratitude and appreciation by the ungracious manner in which they do so.
He returned for the cattle, and he put them into the park. They were but a short time grazing in the park when a great wild giant came, full of rage and madness. "HI! HAW!! HOGARAICH!!!" said the giant; "it is a drink of thy blood that will quench my thirst this night." "There is no knowing," said the herd, "but that's easier to say than to do." And at each other went the men.
"I shall so look forward to seeing it," cried Laura, clasping her hands. "It has been one of the dreams of my life to see India. I have read so much of it, the temples, the forests, the great rivers, and the tigers. Why, you would hardly believe it, but I have never seen a tiger except in a picture." "That can easily be set right," said Raffles Haw, with his quiet smile.
Strenuously earnest must have been the work which Raffles Haw had done that day. And suddenly Robert thought of the secret which had been treasured in the casket within the iron-clamped box. It was to tell him the one last essential link which would make his knowledge of the process complete. Was it still there? Thrilling all over, he opened the great chest, and drew out the ivory box.
Tell a man that he should join a memory class, and he will hum and haw, and say, as I have already remarked, that memory isn't everything; and, in short, he won't join the memory class, partly from indolence, I grant, but more from false shame. Yet there are few mental exercises better than learning great poetry or prose by heart. Twenty lines a week for six months: what a "cure" for debility!
'Fie, fie upon ye all for making such a hullaballoo at a weak old man's door, he said, yawning. 'What's in ye to rouse honest folks at this time o' night? 'Hang me why it's Uncle Benjy! Haw haw haw? said Festus. 'Nunc, why how the devil's this? 'Tis I Festus wanting to come in. 'O no, no, my clever man, whoever you be! said Uncle Benjy in a tone of incredulous integrity.
We have little left, and it would be unfair to the others to pay you now. We can but hope that when our assets are realised no one will be the loser save ourselves." "I did not come to draw out, but to put in," said Raffles Haw in his demure apologetic fashion. "I have in my bag five thousand hundred-pound Bank of England notes.
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