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No, sir, I'm going to take a chance!" "The devil you are! You die with me, right here, and even then I don't know that we'll be square!" In that supreme crisis, Tonet became again the harbor rowdy of his early boyhood, the ragamuffin stranger to respect and consideration for other people. He smiled ferociously, cynically, back at his brother. Pale with hatred, the two men faced each other. "Pare!
This woman, who pays bills of thousands of pesetas to her milliner, doesn't like to give a copper to a ragamuffin. "We turned off a bit from the avenue and went up on the right, toward the Palatine. Among the ruins some women were pulling up plants and putting them into sacks.
To see the engines pouring down, and the great hose twining about like jolly old sea-serpents spouting. 'Hush, Lance; how can you? How could you! Does Mr. Audley know he is safe? 'Yes, said Felix, 'he opened the door, and said he might have known Lance was too much of a gamin to come to grief. 'What's a gamin? said Lance. 'A street ragamuffin at Paris, said Wilmet.
But her faith in the good spot which exists in the heart of the naughtiest, sauciest, most tantalizing little ragamuffin gave her patience, skill, and in time success, for no mortal boy could hold out long with Father Bhaer shining on him as benevolently as the sun, and Mother Bhaer forgiving him seventy times seven.
She nodded with set lips. "How d'you know?" "I saw it in his eyes." The young man was genuinely moved. "Poor beggar!" he said. Ragamuffin The little affair of Joses was one of the many trifles that made for intimacy between the young man and the girl. In spite of herself Boy found her opposition dying away. Indeed, she could no more resist him than she could resist the elements.
Tabs forgot the silly beginnings of this upset and the endless troubles it had caused. All he saw was a typical ragamuffin of humanity in the grip of the policeman, Nemesis. Adair had been caught trying to do what thousands of other ragamuffins achieved daily with success. He had been arrested red-handed in the act of stealing forbidden happiness. It was his first offense.
Before morning came he had told himself a dozen times that he was nothing more than a sentimental old romancer, who saw in every beggar a worthy spirit bewitched by Destiny, and a Circumstance-enchanted fairy-prince in every ragamuffin who chanced to have big eyes.
If your men had gone a hundred feet farther you would have made a great charge, but as it is what a lot of mud diggers you've got anyway!" The men, listening with bated breath, now turned their curious eyes upon the colonel. They had a ragamuffin interest in this affair. The colonel was seen to straighten his form and put one hand forth in oratorical fashion.
Presently, he lifted it out of the box, and carrying it round among the kneelers, set its face against the forehead of every one, and tendered its clumsy foot to them to kiss a ceremony which they all performed down to a dirty little ragamuffin of a boy who had walked in from the street.
Ragamuffin, stray dog or cat, tramp, down and outer of every kind or description, these enlisted his sympathy and help despite the expostulation and remonstrance of a series of conventional good people, his mother and father, his best friends and his outraged wife. The latter never knew, she used to say, what he would bring home for dinner.
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