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You can kill me, but the secret of the safe combination will die with me." Kendale laughed a little short, hard laugh. "You are mad to thus defy me," he cried, harshly, "when you stop to consider that I can open it in any event. I can simply say the combination has slipped from my mind. Who is there to question Mr. Lester Armstrong, the head of the firm? No one no one.
He just laughed and said 'nonsense! until he found I was really in earnest; then he well, he said 'nonsense, then, too only he didn't laugh," finished Billy, with a sigh. Aunt Hannah regarded her with fond, though slightly exasperated eyes. "Billy, you are, indeed, a most extraordinary young woman at times. Surely, with you, a body never knows what to expect except the unexpected."
They told him he wasn't the sleuth he thought he was, so he came back. They'll have the laugh on him now, for sure." McCann listened with admirable good-nature, gravely pulling at his cigar, and eyeing Mr. Cooke with a friendly air of admiration. "Mr. Crocker," he said, with melancholy humor, "it's leery I am with the whole shooting-match. Mr.
"Of course; you're not needed; your future has been mapped for you, and it is hard to make up lost time." "We found that out at the high school," returned Mont, with a light laugh; "but the pearl of great price, in a worldly sense, is good health, and I have been repaid in securing it."
Always extinguish every match that you find in your path; for it may cost some one his life. Always answer a passer-by who asks you the way, with politeness. Do not look at any one and laugh; do not run without necessity; do not shout. Respect the street. The education of a people is judged first of all by their behavior on the street.
Collins at the Sheffield bye-election." "I did. I am very much flattered that you know so much about my movements." "I always know everything that you are doing," said Alicia, quietly "you, and Cousin Lucy." "You have the advantage of me then"; his laugh was embarrassed, but not amicable; "for I am afraid I have no idea what you have been doing since Easter!"
Yet, in spite of the insufficiency of his two hundred a-year to meet all or half his wants, Mr Armstrong was not an unhappy man. At any moment of social enjoyment he forgot all his cares and poverty, and was always the first to laugh, and the last to cease to do so.
Usually the most natural woman in the world with a soft infectious laugh, a rather shrewd humor and a neat gift of comment, she assumed a metallic artificiality that distressed herself and surprised Joan.
"The flies are very bothersome," continued he. "But nothing like Australia. There the flies have to be picked off, and they're big, and they bite take a piece right out of you. The natives used to laugh at us when we were in the ring and would try to brush, em away."
France suggests that the Governor-General should be a Galavian, and points to the one man conspicuously capable who happens to be," he added with an amused laugh, "my particular enemy." "You mean Von Ritz?" The question came from Italy's delegate. Jusseret bowed his head. "Von Ritz," he affirmed. Don Alphonso Rodriguez laughed with a note of incredulity.
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