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"No; Perkins is attending to that," said Henderson, rather indifferently, like a man awakened out of a pleasant dream. "Don't seem to need much fixing. The public are fond of parallels." Hollowell laughed. "I guess that's so till they get 'em." "Or don't get them," Henderson added. And then both laughed. "It looks as if it would go through this time. Bemis says the C. D.'s badly scared.
Lawyer Perkins fixed his black eyes on him. "Then you fully understand the situation, and can explain everything?" "I wish I could. Unfortunately, I can explain nothing. I don't clearly see why I have been summoned to attend as a witness at the investigation to be held to-day in Justice Beemis's office." "You are unacquainted with any special reason why your testimony is wanted?"
Thus Satan in the soul, and thus the eternal duel between the new thing that man dreams, and the old thing that he has made into law. Another day had come though Jimmie did not know it in his dungeon. All he knew was that Sergeant Perkins returned, and stood looking at him, picking his teeth with a quill.
Trouble and wrongs and sufferin's seemed to be epidemic in the race of Burpy wimmen. Why, one of her aunts on her father's side, Patty Burpy, married for her first husband Eliphalet Perkins. He was a minister, rode on a circuit. And he took Patty on it too; and she rode round with him on it, a good deal of the time.
He seems to have got you on his mind. He'll be delighted to see you. I'll call him he's just outside. He's with our party." With an expression half dismayed, half amused, Perkins looked after the Mercury Club's secretary as he darted to the outer door, where a big figure in a motoring coat was pacing up and down. Tom, leaning over the office desk, looked at Perkins.
Perkins changed their minds about the French nurse, and it came about in this way: "Thaddeus," said Bessie, after the Bradleys had departed, "what is the tile of a rockin'-'orse?" "I don't know. Why?" asked Thaddeus. "Why, don't you remember," she said, "young Harry Bradley accused Jennie of pulling out the tile of his rockin'-'orse?" "Oh yes! Ha, ha!" laughed Thaddeus. "So she did. I know now.
Worthington was downright distinguished-looking under his gray beaver. Why had he come to Brampton? demanded Deacon Ira Perkins. Sam had saved this for the last. Young Mr. Worthington was threatened with consumption, and had been sent to live with his distant relative, Silas Wheelock.
"I wish we had a birdcage. Then we could open the door and grab a sandwich as it flies out." By covering the trays the girls finally carried the luncheon out into the main compartment, where they gave DuQuesne and Perkins one of the trays and all fell to eating hungrily. DuQuesne paused with a glint of amusement in his one sound eye as he saw Dorothy trying to pour ginger ale out of a bottle.
As the door closed behind the cynical scientist, Brookings took a small gold instrument, very like a watch, from his pocket. He touched a button and held the machine close to his lips. "Perkins," he said softly, "M. Reynolds Crane has in his house a bottle of solution." "Yes, sir. Can you describe it?" "Not exactly.
They carried a gay company, and the final rockets, spurting from West Peak, flashed before the faces of people in the high good humour of those who have been successfully and uniquely entertained. The Lieutenant-Governor and his wife had gone to the pink and white welcome of the bridal suite when Perkins at last came strolling downstairs.
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