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This theme is worthy of expansion. To-night Oates, captain in a smart cavalry regiment, has been 'scrapping' over chairs and tables with Debenham, a young Australian student. It is a triumph to have collected such men.
To-morrow I shall apply at Crosby's for a good, old-fashioned maid, who doesn't have to have her daily bath, and doesn't expect to be entertained at my club!" "But, listen, darling," Alexandra pleaded. "DON'T make a fuss now. Justine was my darling belle-mere's guest to-day, don't you see? It'll be so awkward, scrapping right in the face of Owen's news.
"Righto!" agreed his good-natured friend, and they laughingly shook hands. "We'd better save our scrapping for Buck Looker and his friends," said Bob. "I suppose they'll be up to some kind of mischief as soon as we get back to school again. They seem never to learn by experience." "They're too foolish and conceited to learn much," observed Joe.
It shows you that things are rickety down Mexico way when such a bunch stops scrapping and gets together. "You see, they are oil, and I'm important in my way down there, and they want me to swing the mining interests in with the oil. Truly, big things are in the air, and we've got to hang together and do something or get out of Mexico.
If any of the more quarrelsome folk on the continent get scrapping, well, my conception of my duty is to keep out of it." Monsieur Pouilly restrained himself. To judge from his appearance, however, it was not altogether an easy matter.
Don't do any Good to the town, don't do any Good to yourselves, don't do any manner of Good, to have all the Tradesmen in the Place scrapping about the Pavement of an Afternoon. Think we're letting you off very easily this time, and hope it will be a Warning to you. Don't expect Men of your Position to come up before us. Very Regrettable Affair. Eh?"
Denton hesitated. "But " he said, "I can't give you anything " "That's the ge'man all over," said the swart man. "Who arst you to?" "But your time?" "If you don't get learnt scrapping you'll get killed, don't you make no bones of that." Denton thought. "I don't know," he said. He looked at the face beside him, and all its native coarseness shouted at him.
Could Miki have spoken Cree, and had Meshaba given him the opportunity, he might have explained the situation. "You see, Mr. Indian" he might have said "this dub of a bear and I have been pals from just about the time we were born. A man named Challoner tied us together first when Neewa, there, was just about as big as your head, and we did a lot of scrapping before we got properly acquainted.
If nothing succeeds like success, how doubly true it was that nothing fails like failure. Carlisle had reached a point where she longed to shake her aunt, when Hen, who had been "scrapping up" with Looloo, came in, putting an end to the futile talk.
The American proposal included the scrapping of the Mutsu, the pride of the Japanese navy, which had been launched but not quite completed. The sacrifices voluntarily proposed by the United States for its navy were much greater than those which England or Japan were called upon to make, and in this lay the strength of the American position.
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