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The dirt! Of course they're unspeakably kind, and Dr. Mangan is certainly very clever, and has managed Larry wonderfully," went on Frederica, repenting her of her evil speaking, "and I must say I can't help liking Mrs. Mangan, but the girl !" Miss Coppinger shut her mouth so tightly that her lips became thin, white lines.

Now you keep your mouth shut and I'll make it worth your while." Then I see Bill's game. "All right, I'll keep quiet for the sake of my half," I says, looking at 'im. I thought he'd ha' choked, and the langwidge 'e see fit to use was a'most as much as I could answer. "Very well, then," 'e says, at last, "halves it is.

She stared at her husband in undisguised amazement, while the corners of her mouth and her large soft cheeks quivered. "Well, I should never have expected to hear you talk so, Georgie," she said huskily. "It seems unlike you somehow, almost as though you were despising your own flesh and blood." "No, no," he answered, "I could never do that.

"Strange words," says Masselin, "unworthy of utterance from the mouth of a man so eminent; but in his soul, as in that of all old men, covetousness had increased with age, and he appeared to fear a diminution of his pension."

Of the million people who make up this great city, probably six hundred thousand are already plunged deep in the abyss where lurk Want and Crime, or trembling on its verge, and the number who thus "live from hand to mouth," who feel that they have "no stake in the country," that God and man are against them is ever on the increase.

That sepulchral groan had issued not from a mortal in the agony of impending death but from the smiling red lips of Viola Gwyn. The grewsome "death-rattle" was the result of the means she took to suppress a shriek of laughter by frantically clapping both hands to her convulsed mouth.

He then called the dog by name, who immediately appeared from the castle, carrying the eagle's body in his mouth. As soon as the man had applied the wing to the place from which it had been cut, and compared it with the other, he said to him, nodding approvingly, "'T is well: I have that which I wanted.

I'm not such a blockhead as to think myself worthy of her, but I do think, if she would only listen to me, I might stand a chance: and she runs off, as if she thought it a sin to hear a word from my mouth! 'It is very honourable to her, said Mr. Kendal. 'Very honourable to her, replied Ulick, 'but cruelly hard upon me. 'I think, too, continued Mr.

Sanders raced across the plank and through the Houssa lines, dragging the messenger by the arm, and Hamilton, with a hastily summoned guard, followed. They found Joseph Blowter tied scientifically to a gum-tree, a wedge of wood in his mouth to prevent him speaking, and he was a terribly unhappy man.

In time these tales came to the ears of my father, and he called some of his head men to meet him in the dining-room. "I'll have no trifling," said he. "The girl is a good girl for all I know, and I have never seen her before or since. If I can trace a bad word to any man's mouth, I'll flog him till he can't move.