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I been busted myself in my own day, but don't try your hand with my hoss. He ain't just a buckin' hoss; he's a man-killer, lad. I'm tellin' you straight. And this floor ain't so soft as the sawdust makes it look," he ended with a grin. The younger man considered the animal seriously. "I'm not broke; I've simply taken a fancy to your horse. If you don't mind, I'd like to try him out.
She would fain have a good conscience toward Society that image whose feet are of gold and its head a bag of chaff and sawdust. Malcolm followed sick at heart that she should prove herself so shallow. Riding Honour, he had plenty of leisure to brood. When she went to her room, there was Caley taking from a portmanteau the Highland dress which had occasioned so much.
But, speaking of the store, it was lonesome there after you and the Sawdust Doll and the White Rocking Horse came away." "Really? Did you miss me?" asked the Lamb. "Indeed we did," declared the Captain. "And, in a way, I am glad I was bought and brought away. One reason is that now I may have some adventures, and another reason is that I have seen you again."
"Well, I suppose there is no use thinking any longer of having a home like the one the Sawdust Doll got, with her little girl mistress to love her," said the Lamb on Wheels to herself. "I am to be taken away by this sailor away out to sea. I never could stand sailing, anyhow. Oh, dear! why do I have to go?" "Does she squeak?" asked the sailor of the clerk, as he held the Lamb in his hands.
I am no bundle of sawdust, Mademoiselle, though once you got the better of me, but a man; a man with an arm to shield and a brain to serve, and as I am going to teach you a heart also! She shivered. 'In the orange-coloured sachet that you lost I believe that there were eighteen stones of great value? She made no answer, but she looked at me as if I fascinated her.
It became very still and quiet and dark in the house. It was like the hour in the department store when there is no one to see the toys. "Now I can move about," said the White Rocking Horse, who had been taken up to Dick's room. "I wish I could see the Sawdust Doll and have a talk with her." "She is in Dorothy's room," said an old Driver, who had once sat on a tin express wagon.
But I couldn't move none, or even wink, both eyes being shut with lumps. "He's a cur!" yells the Master, "a sneaking, cowardly cur! He lost the fight for me," says he, "because he's a cowardly cur." And he kicks me again in the lower ribs, so that I go sliding across the sawdust. "There's gratitude fer yer," yells the Master.
They knew that at this moment they were not especially attractive risks for an accident insurance company. The very sawdust on the floor stank of villainy; the brass bar rail might have been a rigid length of poison snake; the spittoons were small sinks of corruption.
He entered a place curiously like the saloons of ante-prohibition days, with a long greasy bar with sawdust in front and streaky mirror behind, a pine table at which a dirty old man dreamed over a glass of something which resembled whisky, and with two men at the bar, drinking something which resembled beer, and giving that impression of forming a large crowd which two men always give in a saloon.
Two syllables more, and the parsons would be riding it to sawdust. Humanity! Humanitomtity! It's the best word of the two for half the things done in the name of it. A tremendously bracing epistle, excellent for an access of fever, was despatched to humanity's curate, and Everard sat expecting a hot rejoinder, or else a black sealed letter, but neither one nor the other arrived.
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