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Kitty adored horses, and it amused John to see her pat them, and her vivacity and light-heartedness rather pleased him than otherwise. Nevertheless, during the whole of the following week the ladies held little communication with John. In the morning he went out with his bailiffs to inspect farms and consult about possible improvement and necessary repairs. He had appointments with his solicitor.
"You will have to clear up, lads, for I must make such few repairs as are necessary to restore the aerostat to a state of efficiency. So long as that remains in serviceable condition, we will always have a method of advance or retreat. Without it well, I'd rather not think of the alternative."
Their only work is to make some slight repairs in the ruined tenement, to clear the channel of its lumber, such as the remains of cocoons and the litter of shattered ceilings, and lastly to build new partitions, either with a plaster made of clay or with a concrete formed of pith-scrapings cemented with a drop of saliva. You can tell these borrowed dwellings by the unequal size of the storeys.
The whole correspondence lasts thirty days, and requires no less than thirty sheets of paper! Had the person who desired the repairs been not a Governor-General, but an ordinary mortal, it is impossible to say how long the procedure might have lasted.*
I found that a small debt had come down from the erection of the building, which had been increased from year to year by accruing interest and repairs, until at this time the entire indebtedness amounted to nine hundred and thirty-one dollars.
We have stopped for repairs." "Haven't broken your level?" "No. Ashton is laid up for the day with a scalp wound. We were shot at this morning from up there other side of the crest." "Shot at, and Lafe hit?" "Not seriously, though it could not well have been a closer shave. He says he will be all right by tomorrow," said Blake, and he gave the bald details of the occurrence in a few words.
Is the gas machine all right again, Tom?" "Practically so. If that hadn't gone back on me we would have had those fellows captured by this time." "Never mind. We did our best." It did not take Tom and his chum long to complete the repairs, and soon they arose in the air. "Let's take a flight over where those fellows are, just to show them what we can do," proposed Ned, and Tom and Mr.
We have simply been overwhelmed with business enquiries of every description enquiries as to our facilities for the execution of repairs; enquiries as to the quickest time in which we could build and deliver new ships; enquiries respecting new engines and machinery of every conceivable kind, not one of which will probably come to anything.
While the old man was still busying himself under the shed, the horse-dealer said to the receiver: "Would you believe it that he also repairs with his own hands all the posts, doors, thresholds, boxes, and cases in the house, or if luck favors him makes new ones himself? I believe that he could be an expert joiner, if he wanted to, and put together a first-class cabinet."
In noisiest turbulence of typhoon wrath this reserved Englishman sways and tosses with the ship's motion, raptly listening to low-pitched, soft-keyed voice rising above the storm. What is ocean's tumult to this long-range undertone? Outriding storm fury, the steamer for needed repairs anchors off Indian shore, whence she continues her eccentric course.
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