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"He's accepted it, Quinny! I always said he was a damned good actor, and so he is. My Lord, this is ripping! He says it's a splendid comedy ... so it is ... as good as Oscar Wilde at his best ... oh, better, damn it, better ... and will I please come and see him on Friday morning at eleven o'clock ... I'll be there before he's out of bed!... I say, Quinny, we ought to do something, ought'nt we?
We'll wait till dark, get a tried and acquitted notary of my acquaintance, slip around to Post's lair after dark and do the deed. I'll stand a ripping dinner for the bunch out of my ten per cent. Put deed on record to-morrow morning. That'll give him start enough. Is that all clear?" "Clear as a bell. I'm off!" said Archibald. "Archie's a good sort, but he does hate to let a dollar get by him."
Sharp stones and cactus spikes penetrated the front tires, bursting them with ripping reports. It took time to replace them. The planks were called into requisition to cross soft places. A jagged point of projecting rock had to be broken with a sledge. At length a huge stone appeared to hinder any further advance. Madeline caught her breath. There was no room to turn the car.
Wadman, would not do; for that the taylor, in ripping them up, in order to turn them, had found they had been turn'd before Then turn them again, brother, said my father, rapidly, for there will be many a turning of 'em yet before all's done in the affair They are as rotten as dirt, said the corporal Then by all means, said my father, bespeak a new pair, brother for though I know, continued my father, turning himself to the company, that widow Wadman has been deeply in love with my brother Toby for many years, and has used every art and circumvention of woman to outwit him into the same passion, yet now that she has caught him her fever will be pass'd its height
She was entirely ignorant of everything, except perhaps, of a little biblical history, but she made a most interested audience. Once he thought she was perhaps egging him on for his own pleasure, but when he grew more silent she urged him to explain. "It's ripping going round with somebody who knows something," she said. "Most of the men one meets know absolutely nothing.
How very interesting!" By which she meant that she was not interested at all. "You mean that you would like it landscape-gardened?" Really, she was perverse. She had turned her back to the view which was ripping, out of her northern window. I could tell that she habitually turned her back on it. "Oh, landscape-gardened? Well, it would improve it, no doubt. But it would take generations to do it.
Before he could answer, it flashed across her mind with painful distinctness that it was at football that Arthur had been injured. The color flashed into her cheeks, and she unconsciously looked so appealingly at Arthur that he came to the rescue at once. "Of course I am," he asserted stoutly. "It's a great old game, and we've got some ripping good players in Glenloch.
Major Williams at last with his 15-pounders, our other batteries, and the Maxims were finding the range and ripping into shreds the solid lines of dervishes. Still the enemy pressed on, their footmen reaching to within 200 yards of Macdonald's line. Scores of Emirs and lesser leaders, with spearmen and swordsmen, fell only a few feet from the guns and the unshaken Khedivial infantry.
"But," said I, "it is not a question of fishing for them with an iron-swivel, hoisting them into the vessel, cutting off their tails with a blow of a chopper, ripping them up, and throwing their heart into the sea!" "Then, it is a question of " "Precisely." "In the water?" "In the water." "Faith, with a good harpoon! You know, sir, these sharks are ill-fashioned beasts.
"You see, he loves her, Britt he loves little Miss Pelham. Do you know what that means? It means everything is worth while. Hello! Here he is back! Come in, Saunders. Here's your lemo!" Saunders was excited. He stopped in the doorway, but looked over his shoulder into the street. "Come along," he exclaimed. "They're going up to the château the Princess and her party. My word, she's ripping!"