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Were I the great Mumbo Jumbo above, I would endeavour to manage matters better; but being a simple postilion, glad to earn three shillings a day, I can’t be expected to do much.’ ‘Who is Mumbo Jumbo?’ said I. ‘Ah!’ said the postilion, ‘I see there may be a thing or two I know better than yourself. Mumbo Jumbo is a god of the black coast, to which people go for ivory and gold.’
Bennett told them they would know surely about the way when the boys returned, and knowing the road would know how to manage and what to expect and work for, and could get out successfully. But the general opinion of all but Mr. Bennett and Mr.
Off with your clothing, all of you!" whispered Torn. "I'll manage this affair. Pretend to be asleep." "But, Tom, it's my fault " began Dick, when his younger brother cut him short. "Into the bed I'll be all right, Dick." Satisfied that Tom had some plan in his head for smoothing matters over, the other boys disrobed with marvelous rapidity and crept into their beds.
But one can see in you a worker you evidently enjoy the exercise of the accomplishments you possess and nothing comes amiss to you. I wonder how you manage it? When you joined us on this trip a few days ago, you brought a kind of atmosphere with you that was almost buoyant, and now I am disappointed, because you seem to have enclosed yourself within it, and to have left us out!"
On behalf of the shareholders at large whose interests are in our hands, I think it expedient that any general statement should be postponed for a short time, and I flatter myself that in that opinion I shall carry the majority of this Board with me. Mr Melmotte did not make his speech very fluently; but, being accustomed to the place which he occupied, he did manage to get the words spoken in such a way as to make them intelligible to the company.
Pyrrhus upbraided Fortune for placing so many opportunities within his reach at the same time, and, reflecting that he could only manage one with success, for some time remained plunged in thought.
He will not let me go into his kitchen, hardly; but it is no poetry to cook, and wash dishes; and I cannot let him do it for anybody but myself alone. The only way we can make money now seems to be to save it; and as he declares he can manage till September, we will remain alone till then. It is beyond words enchanting to be so. But, I assure you, his office is no sinecure.
"He's in he's detained at Omaha for ten days. I fixed it." The overwrought widow dropped back into the hammock, crying weakly: "Oh, you dear, good boy!" "Yes, I'm all of that. I I suppose I'd be missed if anything happened to me!" "How ever did you manage it?" "Never mind the details. It took some ingenuity." Mrs. Keap wrung her hands. "I was so terribly frightened!
They were rather difficult fellows to manage, and gave Dthemetri a good deal of trouble, but I liked them all the better for that. Selim, the chief of the party, and the man to whom all our camels belonged, was a fine, savage, stately fellow.
"`I say, Miles, said Jack, `we must soon manage to come to land or we shall be starving. We have not got food nor water for more than one day longer, and without them we shall not be able to hold out. "That was very true; still neither of us thought of giving in. A light breeze from the eastward had sprung up, so that we made good way, but there was no land to be seen ahead.
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