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"I've played with Abe Mitchell often, and I was partnered with Harry Vardon in last year's Open." The great Russian uttered a cry that shook the chandelier. "You play in ze Open? Why," he demanded reproachfully of Mrs. Smethurst, "was I not been introducted to this young man who play in opens?" "Well, really," faltered Mrs. Smethurst. "Well, the fact is, Mr. Brusiloff " She broke off.
Every now and then a shadow would detach itself from the mass, hail its partner by name, and glide out to join him or her in the procession. Then, when the last shadows had found their mates and every one was partnered, the lights were turned up in a blaze, the orchestra crashed out a whirl of nondescript dance music, and people just let themselves go. It was Pandemonium.
'Ye partnered ilk ither fine, said the Governor; 'time and step suited ye bonny. Weel, he added slowly, 'ye hae to decide. Wull ye tak her? Maxwell hesitated a moment, then impulsively, 'I will. Here's my hand on 't. 'Dune! cried the Governor triumphantly. Then he added by way of an evasion from any difficulty with Wharton.
After which she prattled to him gaily, until Stanley was clever enough to distract her attention and remanipulate the party. He had been riding with Carew, and the engineer with Meryl; but on the party being disarranged the engineer joined Mr. Pym to discuss the mining properties they had been visiting, and Carew found himself unavoidably partnered with Meryl, while Stanley and Diana went gaily on ahead. It was the first time, what he was pleased to term "his luck" had deserted him. Heretofore there had been no single tête-
They moved to the measure of a cosmic dance, whose rhythm was creative. The Universe partnered them. There was this transfiguration of all common, external things. He realised that appearances were visible letters of a soundless language, a language he once had known.
Miss Mapp found herself soon afterwards partnered with Major Flint and opposed by Irene and the Padre. They had hardly begun to consider their first hands when Boon staggered out into the garden under the weight of a large wooden bucket, packed with ice, that surrounded an interior cylinder. "Red currant fool at last," thought Miss Mapp, adding aloud: "O poor little me, is it, to declare?
Great applause greeted Mary Jane as, blushing and rolling up her music nervously, she escaped from the room. The most vigorous clapping came from the four young men in the doorway who had gone away to the refreshment-room at the beginning of the piece but had come back when the piano had stopped. Lancers were arranged. Gabriel found himself partnered with Miss Ivors.
Equal skill, science, art, and the experience of generations had produced the model of a master's desk which partnered the desks of the pupil. Maps of as many countries as might be desired showed in frames up and down which they followed one another by the silent turning of a handle. A blackboard on an easel looked across the desks at a wall into which was let a solid slab of blackboard.
"For the time being we have been partnered " "Partnered for what?" demanded Ross, controlling his temper. "We work in pairs here. The machine sorts us ..." he answered briefly and consulted his wrist watch. "Mess call soon." Ashe had already turned away, and Ross could not stand the other's lack of interest.
These latter were a Chinese cook named Algy, a Piute Indian half-breed called Cayuse, and two rare souls Napoleon G. Blink and "Gettysburg" miners, and boastful old worthies, long partnered and beloved by Van. Just at present the tunnel was empty, the glory-hole was deserted, and the quartz-mill was silent. The mine had proved a failure.
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