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There was plenty of leisure on the two daily runs, even for an industrious boy, and thus he found time to transfer his laboratory from the cellar and re-establish it on the train. His earnings were also excellent so good, in fact, that eight or ten dollars a day were often taken in, and one dollar went every day to his mother.
Apparently, however, he did not dare to move without the Khalifa's permission; for his letters, as late as the 20th, show that he had not broken his camp, and was still asking the Emir for information as to the doings of the 'Turks. Of a truth there was plenty to tell.
He had gone to great expense in that business; and he had not built bridges, erected forts, and dug mines, only to abandon them for a few fine words, Fine words were plenty, but they raised no sieges.
"I'm sorry I can't help you, Dextry, but I got mixed up in one of your scrapes and that's plenty." "This ain't no stowaway. There's no danger to you," began Dextry, but the officer interrupted him: "There's no need of arguing. I won't do it." "Oh, you WON'T, eh?" said the old man, beginning to lose his temper. "Well, you listen to me for a minute.
There was something in his physiognomy at once benevolent and picturesque. But, as I have hinted, it was not at all serious. The young man's face was, in this respect, singular; it was not at all serious, and yet it inspired the liveliest confidence. "Be sure you put in plenty of snow," said his sister. "Bonte divine, what a climate!"
Care should then be taken not to feed too rich or stimulating food for the last week or two before this event, as it is often attended with ill consequences. A plenty of hay, a few potatoes or shorts, and pure water will suffice.
She held his hand to her cheek, and smiling at me, spoke quite cheerfully. "Come back in about an hour," she said, "and I will have coffee made with the spirit-lamp, and try and find some biscuits." "That we will," cried Mr Denning. "Make plenty, Lena, Mr Brymer and and the sailors will be glad of some."
When Burke was ready to make his suggestions, he thought he would begin in a mild fashion, and see how Mrs. Cliff would take them. "If I was in your place, madam," said he, "the first thing I would do would be to have a lot of servants. There's nothin' money can give a person that's better than plenty of people to do things. Lots of them on hand all the time, like the crew of a ship."
To keep your mind generally open, I should make a chart of contemporary history and another of literature, taking one century a month, and leaving plenty of space for adding things afterwards. In Literature, I should take one of the Men of Letters every month, or one of the Foreign Classics, and at the same time read any of the man's own works that I could.
"But there is plenty to do in a city, Diana; and that is the main thing." "So there is in the country." "I sometimes think I might do more, reach more people, I mean, if I were somewhere else. But yes, Di, I grant you, apart from that one consideration, there is no comparison. Green hills are a great deal better company than hot brick walls." "And how wonderful, how beautiful, this water is!"
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