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Sophie had washed hers of the invalid; there had been some sharpish words between the sister and brother on the matter, I imagine, and the result was, Richard was the only one who did or would do anything for his comfort and safety. That day, after appearing at dinner, he came no more. I watched with feverish anxiety every step, every sound; but he came not.
As to your question, he was by no means a stupid boy. Rather sharpish, I should say." "Then how came he to let you take him in?" "As to that, I claim to be rather sharp myself, and quite a match even for a smart boy. I haven't knocked about the world forty-four years for nothing." They were now in Broadway.
We rode up sharpish, and showed our revolvers, singing out to him to 'bail up'. He pulled up quick and stared at us. So we did at him. Then the three of us burst out laughing regular roared again. Who should it be but old George Storefield. 'Well, this is a prime joke, says he. 'I knew you were out somewhere on this road; but I never thought I should live to be stuck up by you, Dick Marston.
At last he came, and Philip rose to meet him with a feeling of shame and inferiority most new to him. 'Don't, don't, I beg, said Mr. Edmonstone, with what was meant for dignity. 'Lie still; you had much better. My stars! how ill you look! he exclaimed, startled by Philip's altered face and figure. 'You have had a sharpish touch; but you are better, eh? 'Yes, thank you.
The night wasn't as dark as it might have been, but now and again there was a storm, and the whole sky turned as black as a wolf's throat, as father used to say. We got a few knocks and scrapes against the trees, but, partly through the horses being pretty clever in their kind of way, and having sharpish eyesight of our own, we pulled through.
Then the trail made a sharpish ascent beyond, and lost itself behind a distant bush, beyond which again stretched out a broad expanse of grass. Two horsemen were speeding down the longer slope. Their horses were fresh and full of speed. There was no speech passing between them. Eyes and ears were alert, and their grimly set faces gave warning of the anxious thought teeming through their brains.
A dark chap did once through the ribs it didn't feel so bad, a little sharpish at first; why didn't he aim a bit higher? He never was no good, even at that.
A little scandal about our neighbours, a racy article on field sports, some sharpish hits at the City, a libel or two upon men we know, a social article sailing very near the wind, and one of Addison's papers on cherry-coloured hoods, or breast-knots, patches or powder, thrown in by the way of padding. Our dear Joseph is too purely literary for the present age."
The steeple-chase course was down a sharpish incline, with a water jump at the bottom, and some fences specially erected, and about the middle of the course a stone wall of loose stones. This course was well in view of the grand stand, as well as from the middle of the flat-race course.
"Well, I'll do it five times, Tim. There's luck, you know, in odd numbers." There was a sharpish curve on the line close to the station. While Bob Frog was away the train, being five minutes before its time, came thundering round the curve and rushed alongside the platform. Bob ran back of course and stood vainly trying to see the people in each carriage as it went past.
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