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"Oh, 'e 'd be right enough if it warn't for 'is gout which gets 'im in the big toe now and then, and 'is duns and creditors and sich-like low fellers, as gets 'im everywhere and constant! 'E'll never be quite 'imself until 'e marries money and plenty of it!" "A American hair-ess!" nodded Mr. Brimberly. "Pre-cisely! I very nearly married 'im to a rich widder ten years ago.
Oh, you're killing us, Stalky!" cried Campbell. "Pre-cisely what Clewer said to you. I heard him. Now we're goin' to show you what real bullyin' is. 'What I don't like about you, Sefton, is, you come to the Coll. with your stick-up collars an' patent-leather boots, an' you think you can teach us something about bullying. Do you think you can teach us anything about bullying?
If he goes back to the Pedantic " "Pre-cisely, Sir. Gives us all away, Sir." "Then what possessed you to give it away to him, you owl?" "I've got his bag. If 'e gives anything away, he'll have to go naked." At this point I thought it best to rattle my tins and step out of the shadow of the crane. "I've bought the ham," I called sweetly. "Have you still any objection to my seeing life, Mr.
"He starts in at the shop again to-morrow morning," said Sheridan. "Just the same as he did before?" "Just pre-CISELY!" "How how long you goin' to keep him at it, papa?" she asked, timidly. "Until he KNOWS something!" The unhappy man struck his palms together, then got to his feet and began to pace the room, as was his wont when he talked.
I know what you can stand without busting, to the fraction of a cent." "Why, it's ridiculous. That handful of wheat will cost me three hundred thousand dollars." "Pre-cisely." And then all at once Scannel surrendered. Stony, imperturbable, he drew his check book from his pocket. "Make it payable to bearer," said Jadwin. The other complied, and Jadwin took the check and looked it over carefully.
"I don't care, of course. I was only thinking that, in case but there, it's no odds! Well, Mr. Freemoult, you've told me what I was curious to know, and here's your little honnyrarium, sir two shillings and two sixpences, making three shillings in all, pre-cisely." "Keep your money, sir," said the old man, with contemptuous good humour.
It was true, Coquenil's look had deepened into one of somber reminiscence. "You mean the murders in the Rue Montaigne?" "Pre-cisely." "Pooh! A foolish fancy! How many red sunsets have there been since we found those two poor women stretched out in their white-and-gold salon? Well, I must get on. Come to-night at nine. There will be news for you." "News for me," echoed the old man.
Brother Pierce speedily stopped the reading of these subordinate names. "They're of no concern whatever," he said, despite the fact that his own might have been reached in time. "Those first names are what I was getting at. Have those two first amounts, the big ones, be'n paid?" "One has the other not," replied Gorringe. "PRE-cisely," remarked the senior trustee.
"But that would throw the prehistoric Libyan and Hamitic migrations farther to the west than " "Pre-cisely!" interrupted Winkleman. "What sort of people were they? Did they show Hamitic characteristics particularly? or did they incline to the typical prognathous, short- legged, stealopygous type of the Bushmen?" But Winkleman reverted abruptly to his narrative. "That is a long discussion to make.
The man in the frieze coat removed his hat, bobbed round head at Anthony, at me, and spoke, addressing himself to me: "'T is in ewidence, sir, as you an' another gent 'appened to be a-passin' by when a lately de-funct o' the fe-male persuasion vas took out o' th' river at the hour o' four-two-two pre-cisely, this 'ere werry mornin'. Am I right?" "That is so," I answered.
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