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Gardiner possessed one of the strongest school nines in the state. Coach Luce would have preferred an easier opponent for the first regular game, but had to take the only match that he could get. "However, young gentlemen," he announced to the squad on the field, "the Gridley idea is that all opponents look alike to us.
However, he vowed over and over that the settlement with Merriwell should come very soon. The sophomores went in to watch the freshmen practice and incidentally to have sport with them. Two nines had been selected, one being the regular freshman team and the other picked up to give them practice.
He remembered George Forsyte whose brothers Roger and Eustace had been at Harrow and Eton towering up on the top of the drag waving a light-blue flag with one hand and a dark-blue flag with the other, and shouting: "Etroow Harrton!" just when everybody was silent, like the buffoon he had always been; and Eustace got up to the nines below, too dandified to wear any colour or take any notice. H'm!
My recovery was very rapid from that time on, and when I was able to work I secured a position in the commercial office in Hallville. One evening after being paid I strolled into the "Three Nines;" Bill was dealing faro, and I thought I might in a measure, show my gratitude towards him by risking a coin.
From to-day I am going to be Knave!" Now it came to pass that, while every one was trying to correct the improprieties of the guilty Queen of Hearts, they began to make mistakes themselves. The Aces found themselves elbowed out by the Kings. The Kings got muddled up with the Knaves. The Nines and Tens assumed airs as though they belonged to the Great Court Cards.
He left late. It is in every one's mouth this morning." "I had it from Hamish. He came to the party at the Knivetts'. Didn't Hamish get taken in!" laughed Roland. "He understood it was quite a ladies' affair, and loomed in, dressed up to the nines, and there he found only a bachelor gathering of Dick's.
That is why the supply of trained aunts is always so precarious. There is my Aunt Agatha, par exemple, who sent me a pair of gloves last Christmas, and even got so far as to choose a kind that was being worn and had the correct number of buttons. But they were nines!
During this time, taking advantage of the truce to hostilities and the impartial protection meted out to all without distinction by the Constable Damville, the Carmelites and Capuchins, the Jesuits and monks of all orders and colours, began by degrees to return to Nines; without any display, it is true, rather in a surreptitious manner, preferring darkness to daylight; but however this may be, in the course of three or four years they had all regained foothold in the town; only now they were in the position in which the Protestants had been formerly, they were without churches, as their enemies were in possession of all the places of worship.
Here are the twelve louis caution-money, so you can get the magistrate's order, and we will meet again to-morrow." "Give me his name, and yours also." I returned in haste to the "Treize Cantons," and met the abbe, dressed up to the nines, and just about to go out. "Follow me," said I, "I am going to take you to Marcoline, and you shall have an explanation in her presence." "With pleasure."
She will be rich and you will be rich, for your business cards run very smooth, but your marriage cards do not run very close to you, and you will not be married for six or eight months; you will have three children; you will see your future wife within nine hours, nine days, or nine weeks; do not blame me if it runs into the tens, but I tell you it will fall within the nines.
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