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"You are a boy, to be sure, but you have unusually good judgment, and I know you will be faithful to my interests. I understand, then, that you are willing to go out as my accredited representative?" "Yes, sir. When do you want me to start?" said Frank, promptly. "As soon as you can get ready." "I will start to-morrow, if you desire it, sir." "Let it be to-morrow, then.
When daylight comes we will get up the stuff that has been thrown over there, make up our packs and start for Mt. Washington," returned Janus promptly. "I'll reach a telephone before long and send word to the sheriff about what has occurred. He may be out already on the bridge matter, but he ought to know about this last affair. It will give him a clue as to where the man is."
As if much impressed and with a show of feeling he said: "It may be so. At any rate I will not do it. If the convention nominates me I will promptly send my declination. If it nominates me and adjourns I will call it together again and it will have to name somebody else."
And Diomedes leapt to earth from the shining car, and leant his lash against the yoke. Then stalwart Sthenelos tarried not, but promptly took the prize, and gave to his proud comrades the woman to lead and the eared tripod to bear away, and he loosed the horses from the yoke.
"My sister Jane is going to the Capes," I remarked, with some little hesitation; "and so is Mrs. L and Mrs. D , and a good many more of our friends. I did think that I would enjoy myself there this season very much. But I have no doubt I shall find pleasant society at the Springs." "We will go to the Capes," said my husband promptly and cheerfully.
"I said, 'Can you repeat them? I didn't tell you to repeat them, did I?" "No," Peter Mink admitted. "I advise you to be very careful," Mr. Crow warned him. Then Mr. Crow turned to Jimmy Rabbit. "Can you repeat the exact words of the bargain?" he asked. "Yes, sir!" said Jimmy Rabbit promptly. "Good!" Mr. Crow exclaimed. "I'll settle this dispute in no time.
"I merely followed the lead you gave me," said Max, who was looking at him with a very friendly expression. "You played a pretty fine game yourself, Win." "As for that," said the Colonel smiling, "Maxfield may have a button too, if he cares for it." "Thank you, Uncle Dick," Max replied promptly. "I do value it, but perhaps for the present, it would better stop with the others."
Their conversation was interrupted for several moments while she exchanged greetings with friends passing in and out of the restaurant. Then she turned again to her companion. "Tell me," she asked, a little abruptly, "why are you a clerk in the city? You do not come of that order of people." "Necessity," he assured her promptly. "I hadn't a sovereign in the world when your husband engaged me."
But the retaliating box on the ear she had promptly aimed at him spent itself in the black space which seemed suddenly to have swallowed up the man, and even his light laugh. For an instant she stood still, and then, swinging the basket indignantly from her shoulder, took up her suspended task.
I had scarcely sent off this letter when an answer from Schott reached me, in which he at last expressed his willingness to pay me the sum of ten thousand francs for which I had asked. I thereupon sent a telegram to Schmidt promptly cancelling the commission with which I had just charged him.
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