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"Stay another quarter of an hour.... Please do!" Evidently she did not wish to be left alone with me without a witness. "Oh, well, I'll wait a quarter of an hour, too," I thought. "Why, it's snowing!" I said, getting up and looking out of window. "A good fall of snow! Ivan Ivanitch" I went on walking about the room "I do regret not being a sportsman.

"I have made up my mind to be a printer, and if you didn't receive me into your office, I would try to get in somewhere else." "Then no more need be said. When do you want to begin?" "I am ready any time." "Where is your trunk?" "At the tavern." "You can have it brought over to my house whenever you please. The hotel-keeper will send it over for you. He is our expressman.

An instant later and her voice roused Quarrington from the momentary reverie into which he had fallen. "How would this do?" He looked up, and as his gaze absorbed the picture before him an eager light of pure aesthetic satisfaction leaped into his eyes. "Hold that!" he exclaimed quickly. "Don't move, please!"

I should have to talk with their attorney I will see about it! And I thank you very much, Mr. Maxwell." "Look here, Mr. Hilary!" said Maxwell. "Use Pinney all you please, and all you can; but I warn you he is a dangerous tool. He doesn't mean any harm till he's tempted, and when it's done he doesn't think it's any harm.

"Keep him, Papa, I have enough work for him to do!" cried Arthur, while Karl's voice was heard above his screaming: "Let him stay here, Papa, please, I need him so much!" But Edward's piercing voice was heard above the other two: "Papa, he can drive the donkey, he must stay with us, then Johann won't need to come with me any longer!"

"That is as the Lord pleases," returned Mr. Dinwiddie; "but how will you fight, Daisy? you are a weak little child. The fight must be won, in the first place." "Please tell me, Mr. Dinwiddie." He sat down on a bank, and drew Daisy down beside him.

Something must have happened, while he was telephoning, and he got frightened, as big a bluff as he is. But we'll get him. Come on! Will you turn over the propellers, please? I'll show you how to do it," Tom went on to a big, strong man standing close to the blades. "Sure I'll do it," was the answer. "I was a helper once at an airship meet, and I know how."

When he saw me he came up and asked me in a familiar manner when I was going to start for St. Petersburg. "In five or six days, if your majesty has no objection." "I wish you a pleasant journey; but what do you hope to do in that land?" "What I hoped to do in this land, namely, to please the sovereign." "Have you got an introduction to the empress?" "No, but I have an introduction to a banker."

"Then we'll pull up," continued the accountant; "make a fire, rest a bit, and eat a mouthful of pemmican; after which we'll strike across country for the southern woodcutters' track, and so home." "And how much will that be?" "About fifteen miles." "Ha!" exclaimed Harry; "pass the kettle, please. Thanks. Do you think you're up to that, Hammy?" "I will try what I can do," replied Hamilton.

And I tell you this, Brendon: the sooner he does so, if only he leaves me alone, the better pleased I shall be. A hideous speech? Yes, very hideous indeed; but perfectly true, like many hideous things." "Do you honestly expect that I, who know your wife, am going to believe this grotesque story?" "I do not mind whether you believe it or no. Feel as savage as you please.