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Two minutes later, with the city ahead fast looming like a barrier before them, Garrison leaned to the tube. "Slow down!" he called. "Our friend has quit a blow-out. Get down to lawful speed." Even then they ran fully half a mile before the excited creature of wheels and fire could be tamed to calmer behavior.
"To my certain knowledge, there are several people who will be desolate if you quit Florence at this time several besides your mother." "Papa, that is the very reason why I should like to go before it becomes serious." Papa became serious immediately. He lifted my face to look at it, flushed as I suppose it was; and kissed me, with a smile which did not in the least belie the seriousness.
The real sniping commander of the battalion I mean no disrespect to the worthy young officer who officially filled that position looked at the eager face opposite him and laughed. "You'd better quit it, son. Why, to start with, you're frightened of the dark." "I'm damned if I am." The aggrieved Percy waxed indignant. "Oh, cut it out!
"What I was going to say, then," resumed Banks, "was that afterwards, when the orchards are in shape, I am going back to Alaska and take a bunch of those abandoned claims, where the miners have quit turning up the earth, and just seed 'em to oats and blue stem. Either would do mighty well. The sun shines hot long summer days, and the ground keeps moist from the melting snow on the mountains.
Merton's family: they come very often when the London gentlemen are with them." "Merton! oh, the cringing parson. Harkye! one word more with me, sir, and you quit my service to-morrow." Mr.
What then, presumptuous Pamela, dost thou here? thought I: Quit with speed these perilous banks, and fly from these curling waters, that seem, in their meaning murmurs, this still night, to reproach thy rashness!
And first, let me say, I have entirely quit the use of liquor. From the day when you left me in the car, limp as a whipped dog, to this very hour, I have not tasted intoxicating drink. I mention this first, because a breaking away from that habit was the first step toward a better life. Had I not stopped there, short off, I know that all hope of further reformation would have been vain.
Wardour-Devereux's eyes, and before a man named Lydiard, that, never calling to him to put him on his guard, Nevil fell foul of him with every capital charge that can be brought against a gentleman, and did so abuse, worry, and disgrace him as to reduce him to quit the house to avoid the scandal of a resort to a gentleman's last appeal in vindication of his character. Mrs.
He sent the message over to Jerry." "And Jerry?" "The boy doubled any amount dad offered if Clancy would go on. Clancy stands to win fifteen thousand. Dad quit. I told him Jerry had made up his mind. He realizes it now." "Fifteen thousand! Clancy will work for it." Jack smiled grimly. "I think Jerry wants him to." The boy was mad clean mad.
It resisted his efforts, however, and from inside the car came another warning, for a gruff voice said: "Quit that, if you don't want to be blown full of holes." Wilkins stepped out of line of the door before he answered: "Let me in, you fool. It's me, Wilkins." The door opened slowly and he looked into the barrel of a levelled revolver, which was lowered when he was recognized.
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