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After all, Mary was only a woman, despite her cleverness, and with all a woman's timidity. Here was sport for men. "Three ways would be right," Griggs answered. "One to me, one to you and one to be divided up among the others." Garson brought his fist down on the table with a force that made the glasses jingle. "You're on," he said, strongly. "Fine!" Griggs declared, and the two men shook hands.
You dress, eat, drink, walk and talk to yourself to their tune: their inaudible jingle accompanies you all day: you read the sentences of the paper to their rhythm. I tried uncouthly to imitate the tune to the ladies of the family at breakfast, and they say it is "the shadow dance of Dinorah." It may be so.
Don't I pay every week? Well, then, here's my board. Seven days at five pesetas per, that's just thirty-five pesetas, huh? What's the matter with you?" He made the coins jump and jingle in his agile hand, well-used to dealing cards. Then he added: "To-day's Saturday. So then, I'll pay you now. That'll leave me three pesetas for extras tobacco and car-fare. Oh, it's a fine time I'll have!"
I carried her off like a partridge. Don't cry, little Jingle Bells! To-morrow night we leave for New York, and when I come back you're going to stay on with " "Sylvette says " "With friends, indefinitely. Don't cry, little Jingle Bells, don't! 'Sh-h-h, ma! There, didn't I tell you you'd rouse grandma!"
Tupman counted the money into his companion's hand, and he dropped it piece by piece into his pocket, as they walked towards the house. 'Be careful, said Mr. Jingle 'not a look. 'Not a wink, said Mr. Tupman. 'Not a syllable. 'Not a whisper. 'All your attentions to the niece rather rude, than otherwise, to the aunt only way of deceiving the old ones. 'I'll take care, said Mr. Tupman aloud.
The monotonous "Uno, dos," of the infantry, as they told off, was drowned in the noise of the horses' feet and the jingle of accoutrements of the cavalry-men clattering out of their stables.
He had known that a little way on there was Rocket Wood, a place beloved by him ever since they had driven there for a picnic in the jingle, and he had found it all spotted gold under the fir-trees, thick with moss and yellow with primroses.
Nevertheless, an hour later, when the jingle of spurs and bridle were again heard in the road, she started to her feet with bent brows and a kindling eye, and confronted Captain Poindexter in the corridor. "I would not have intruded upon you so soon again," he said gravely, "but I thought I might perhaps spare you a repetition of the scene of this morning.
It may not be a good one, for poetry is out of my line, but it will serve my purpose which is, to give the unGerman young girl a jingle of words to hang the tune on until she can get hold of a good version, made by some one who is a poet and knows how to convey a poetical thought from one language to another.
'Certainly, my dear, Said Mr. Nupkins. 'Muzzle! 'Your Worship. 'Open the front door. 'Yes, your Worship. 'Leave the house! said Mr. Nupkins, waving his hand emphatically. Jingle smiled, and moved towards the door. 'Stay! said Mr. Pickwick. Jingle stopped. 'I might, said Mr.
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