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Do you suppose they ever ask themselves that? THEY don't care they're not going to live with the things! And what do they know of drawing-rooms, anyhow? Lots of them haven't even got a dress-suit. There's where old Popp has the pull over 'em HE knows how we live and what we want." This was received by the artist with a deprecating murmur, and by his public with warm expressions of approval.
It was an absolutely perfect clay, as shiny as the black ball at Pool. I took it reverently, but I was firm. "Will you tell us about the ghost-fight if I do?" I said. "Is ut the shtory that's troublin' you? Av course I will. I mint to all along. I was only gettin' at ut my own way, as Popp Doggle said whin they found him thrying to ram a cartridge down the muzzle. Orth'ris, fall away!"
"Yes, it's good it's damn good, Popp; you've hit the hair off ripplingly; but the pearls ain't big enough," he pronounced. A slight laugh sounded from the raised dais behind the easel. "Of course they're not! But it's not HIS fault, poor man; HE didn't give them to me!" As she spoke Mrs.
But at the word her companion's eye clouded, and a shade of constraint dimmed his enterprising smile. "My wife ? Oh, SHE doesn't go to restaurants she moves on too high a plane. But we'll get old Popp, and Mrs. , Mrs. , what'd you say your fat friend's name was? Just a select little crowd of four and some kind of a cheerful show afterward... Jove! There's the curtain, and I must skip."
For instance, in a law suit which took place at Paris in the month of November, 1886, between M. Popp, constructor of pneumatic city clocks, and financiers who had been backing him, certain engineers and chemists of the School of Mines declared that gold could be extracted from common silex, so that the very walls sheltering us might be placers, and the mansards might be loaded with nuggets!
The foremost was Claud Walsingham Popple; and above his shoulder shone the batrachian countenance of Peter Van Degen. A brief murmur from Mr. Popple made his companion known to the two ladies, and Mr. Van Degen promptly seated himself behind Undine, relegating the painter to Mrs. Lipscomb's elbow. "Queer go I happened to see your friend there waving to old Popp across the house.
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