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"The creature," said Dr. Warner superciliously, "asked me, with characteristic rationality, whether it was my birthday." "And you answered, with characteristic swank," cried Moon, shooting out a long lean finger, as rigid and arresting as the pistol of Smith, "that you didn't keep your birthday." "Something like that," assented the doctor.
Pierson smiled. "My dear," he said, "I think I have!" Some wag, with a bit of chalk, had written the word "Peace" on three successive doors of a little street opposite Buckingham Palace. It caught the eye of Jimmy Fort, limping home to his rooms from a very late discussion at his Club, and twisted his lean shaven lips into a sort of smile.
How can I ever show sufficient devotion in return for all this?" "By being sensible, and telling me how to make signals, now that it is as dark as it will be this moonlight night." "Let me lean on you, as I ever shall figuratively hereafter. We will go down to the outlook you found, build another fire, and wave burning brands." This was done.
You might just as well have one of these, and run no chances getting one of the next lot. They'll be precisely the same; only, you see, they're going to name the next ones 'Every Bosom's Friend, to fit lean and fat, and without distinction of sex. Ideal thing now, is n't it? Yes, that's right fifteen cents two for twenty-five, Professor? don't you want another for your wife?"
"My dear father, you know, really, that won't do." "Do you think it was foolish to pay the two hundred extra?" Isaac gazed at him over his fine gold-rimmed spectacles; and as he gazed he kept drawing his beard slowly through one lean and meditative hand. It was thus that he grasped his son's argument and drew it to a point. "Foolish? It was Don't you see? We we simply can't do it."
"Nay, he knows naught of your painter's gibberish. Give him a crayon and a bit of white bark and see can he make my picture. I'll lean my head back and fold my hands to sleep." In the long sunny quiet that followed, the old man really slipped away into a light doze, from which he was awakened by a loud shout from LeMaury.
Smiles' love and your baby sister's suffering have brought us together; each has had a chance to realize and confess that he was wrong and had been wicked; and now the way is clear for us to be ... friends. At least I'm willing, if you are, to shake on that." Judd sprang to his feet, and his lean hand shot out to grasp the one which Donald held out to him in the darkness.
He came up and looked at old Mole and then turned away, evidently thinking the worthy tutor much too old, lean and tough for his dainty stomach; but when he caught sight of Jack and Harry, he showed more animation. Evidently they were more to his taste. "I mean to have a try for him," said Jack. "Do so, my boy. I shall make a sportsman of you yet, I see," observed Mole.
But," she added, before he had time to inquire for her health, "I wanted I wanted to beg you to do me a service. You were so kind the other night." His reply was to lean earnestly forward, awaiting her words, and she told him briefly of her grievous perplexity about the title-deeds. "Then," he said, "you would wish for me to see the man and ascertain how he has disposed of them."
He sighed deeply, and rose, for it was late, and the little fire had burned out. Mr. Dale bent forward, with his elbows on his lean knees, and gently knocked the ashes from his silver pipe.
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