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"Yes, very sultry indeed." "Shouldn't wonder if we was to have a sharpish touch or two to-night." To which his friend, who was also an American if not an Englishman, and appeared to be sceptical in his nature, replied, "Gammon!"
He had been to the theatre, even to the opera, in Boston, with Mrs. Newsome, more than once acting as her only escort; but there had been no little confronted dinner, no pink lights, no whiff of vague sweetness, as a preliminary: one of the results of which was that at present, mildly rueful, though with a sharpish accent, he actually asked himself WHY there hadn't.
Many years ago, at Cambridge, I remember having a sharpish altercation with Rupert Brooke, who had taken it upon himself to denigrate the art of Racine. Before long it came out that he had read the plays only in a translation; for at that time he was in his second year, I think he had little or no French. Everyone laughed, and the argument collapsed.
Fyles had no more difficulty in fooling the guileless Bill than O'Brien had. "Going home?" Bill inquired of the officer as the latter turned to his horse. "Sure." "Me, too." Fyles leaped into the saddle. McBain, too, had mounted. "Best hurry," said Fyles, with another quick glance at the sky. "We get sharpish storms hereabouts in summer. You'll be drowned else. So long." Bill moved away.
He paid every atom as much attention to the poor as he did to the rich. Jan never considered who or what his patients were: all his object was, to get them well. His nearest way home lay past the pool, and he took it: he did not fear poor Rachel's ghost. It was a sharpish night, bright, somewhat of a frost.
He could not forgive Lipton parting his hair in the middle. That night I repeated my joke to Tom. Instead of smiling, he said: "That's not the way to get on in England. It 's too Becky Sharpish." And then came the day of the queen's salon.
After an hour of sharpish work among slaty shelves and threatening crags, we got into one of those troughlike hollows hung on each side with precipices, which look as if the earth had sunk for the sake of letting the water through. On our left hand, cliff towered over cliff to the grand height of Pen y Cader, the steepest and most formidable aspect of the mountain.
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