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I would like to keep this cottage and a strip of ground a hundred and fifty feet wide running down to the beach." "All right," MacRae agreed. "We can arrange that later. I'll come again." He set foot on the porch steps. Then he turned back. A faint flush stole up in his sun-browned face. He held out his hand. "Shall we cry quits?" he asked. "Shall we shake hands and forget it?"
"Double or quits, Watson," he cried. "Return the new certificates or take others for twice the amount. Are you game?" "I'm on," agreed Watson coolly. Halsey laid down his hand in triumph. There were four kings. "I win," ground out Watson viciously, as he tossed down four aces. Constance was on her feet in a moment.
My idea was that, in a case like this, it's no good trying opposition. What you want is to work it so that the chappie quits of his own accord. You want to egg him on to overdoing the thing till he gets so that he says to himself, "Enough! Never again!" That was what was going to happen to Harold. When you're going to do a thing, there's nothing like making a quick start.
I suspect his twinges of gout come of the prospect of affairs when he lands in England. Remember our bill with Madame Clemence. There won't be the ghost of a bank-note for me if Russett quits the field; we shall all be stranded. Henrietta inquired: 'Does it depend on my going with you to-day? 'Consider, that he is now fancying a thousand things. We won't talk of the road to Paris.
Madame Margaritis, alarmed at the prospect of a suit in which the plaintiff would certainly win his case, brought thirty francs to the placable traveller, who thereupon considered himself quits with the happiest region of sunny France, a region which is also, we must add, the most recalcitrant to new and progressive ideas.
Strength shall sustain the strengthless, nor the soft hand loose its grasp Of the hand it trusts and clings to till another meet its clasp.... Steel-hard to man's last anguish, wax-soft to woman's mood! Death quits not the death-dealer; blood haunts the life of blood!" Returning to the peristyle, I encountered Eveena, who had been seeking me anxiously.
And as if to get even with this ancient foe, who occasionally snaps off a young orang in his prime, the orangs will often locate a big crocodile, and jumping on his back beat him with clubs; and when he opens his gigantic mouth, the female orangs will fill the cavity with sticks and stones, and keep up the fight until the crocodile succumbs and quits this vale of crocodile tears.
"D'ye mean to tell me we've got to wait till 'is blasted whiskers grow?" cried Mr. Kidd, almost dancing with fury. "And go on keeping 'im in idleness till they do?" "You'll get it all back out o' my share," said Mr. Gibbs, with dignity. "But you can please yourself. If you like to call it quits now, I don't mind." Mr.
My son, although he is Regent, never comes to see me, and never quits me, without kissing my hand before he embraces me; and he will not even take a chair if I hand it to him. He is not, however, at all timid, but chats familiarly with me, and we laugh and talk together like good friends.
I knew a man who like you had fixed all his hopes of happiness upon a woman. He was young, he had an old father whom he loved, a betrothed bride whom he adored. "Ah," said Morrel, "one quits a dungeon in a week, a month, or a year." "He remained there fourteen years, Morrel," said the count, placing his hand on the young man's shoulder. Maximilian shuddered.
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