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"McCabe," says he, as we settles ourselves in the night express headed towards Broadway, "this isn't such a bad game, after all, is it?" "Shorty," says Sadie, hangin' up the 'phone and turnin' to me excited, "what do you think? Young Hollister is back in town!" "So are lots of other folks," says I, "and more comin' every day."

All the scarlets and vermilions are gone; a luminous pink bathes the whole scene in its fairy light. The night train for Venice, leaving the town, appears as a long string of blinking lights. A chill breeze comes from the Alpine vastness to westward. The deep silence of an Alpine night settles down. The two Americans continue their talk until they are out of hearing.

Bear up under it perty well, young feller, does he? Keep his health and strength?" "He works enough to get paid fifty thousand a year for it," said the boy. "That settles it," said Scattergood. "I've picked my job. I'm a-goin' to be a railroad president." He put his canvas telescope down, and placed a heavy foot on it for safety. "Calc'late I kin sit here and wait, can't I?"

"We seem to run into each other, Major Brice," said he. The pluck of the man was superb. I could see that the General, too, was moved, from the way he looked at him. And he speaks a little more abruptly at such times. "Guess that settles it, Colonel," he said. "I reckon it does, General," said Clarence, still smiling.

It merely says to the first, 'I've seen you, I'm waiting. Go ahead. Look back to the other crest." "Two smokes are now going up there." "They say 'Come. It's two bands wanting to meet. Now, the other place." "Three smokes there." "Three means, 'We come." "Now back to the other." "Four smokes." "Which says in good, plain English, 'We are following the enemy. That settles it.

Her bold defiance had roused Caesar's utmost fury, and he broke out with a growl of rage: "You will not, you say? And you think, unreasoning fool, that this settles the matter?" He uttered a wild laugh, pressed his hand firmly on his left eyelid, which began to twitch convulsively, and went on in a lower but defiantly contemptuous tone: "I know better! You shall!

R wishes her to remain in Philadelphia, so that he can watch her case. That settles it, Charlie: I must stay with her." What was there to be said? "Is there no one else, no one to take your place?" "Nobody; and I would not leave her even if there were." Still, I was unsatisfied. A feeling of uneasiness took possession of me.

Floyd found occasion to have a slight argument with his horse, just then. He happened to be one of the "most" fellows, and the occasion of his last "blow-out" was fresh in his mind. "Well, of course, if you know he's all straight, that settles it. But it sure seems queer " "That fellow is straight as a string. Don't you suppose it's some gang over on the river, Floyd?

The sexton who had been living there hadn't kept the living apartments clean, and she did not like them very much, but when she went away she said, "If I only could be sure you would keep sober I would go with you, but I can't depend on you. Fifteen months isn't long enough; you will have to go three years. I don't think I'll come." I said, "That settles it!

There's heavy chairs for the stout, weak and wiry ones for the slender; great watches, getting on to the size of clocks, to stand upon the chimbley-piece." "Pictures, for the most part wonderful frames." "And long horse-hair settles for the drunk, with horse-hair pillows at each end," said Mr. Clark. "Likewise looking-glasses for the pretty, and lying books for the wicked."