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You've brought it to a show-up, I think, with your insanities, and that's a service such as it is. I hadn't been able to determine what it was before." With one impulse the old ladies sprang to their feet, quaking with terror. "Sit down! What are you proposing to do?" "Do? We must fly to her. We " "You'll do nothing of the kind; you've done enough harm for one day.
Second and third school passed before he was able to renew his search, and this time he was successful. Just as he was beginning to give up hope, and was meditating a show-up for appearance's sake at the cricket practice, he caught sight of Silk lolling on a bench in a distant corner of the Big. His heart sunk as he made the discovery, but it was no time for consulting his inclinations.
It would be too much of a show-up for 'im." "It's no good your trying to aggravate me, John Boxer, because you can't do it," said Mrs. Gimpson, in a voice trembling with passion. "O' course, if people like being deceived they must be," said Mr. Boxer; "we've all got to live, and if we'd all got our common sense fortune- tellers couldn't.
I do not flatter myself that this general show-up of man's thought through the ages will cure myself or others of carelessness in adopting ideas, or of unseemly heat in defending them just because we have adopted them.
It would be too much of a show-up for 'im." "It's no good your trying to aggravate me, John Boxer, because you can't do it," said Mrs. Gimpson, in a voice trembling with passion. "O' course, if people like being deceived they must be," said Mr. Boxer; "we've all got to live, and if we'd all got our common sense fortune- tellers couldn't.
"What change?" the woman parried. "I don't know " "Oh yes, you do! For the first time in years you have treated me as a husband should be treated; half-measures will no longer satisfy me. We have arrived at the show-up. Are you a miserable Delilah or " "Please don't ask me to go out with you, Henri," the woman pleaded, in genuine distress, now that she saw he was in earnest.
There are two or three accounts of it in some old local stuff I have. And of course there's a ghost. 'A ghost? echoed Lawford, looking up. What's in a name? laughed Herbert. 'But it really is a queer show-up of human oddity. A fellow comes in here, searching; that's all. His back was turned, as he stood staring absently out, sipping his tea between his sentences.
We did get it a little hot at first until we pulled together and came up in a body." "Never mind," said Pilbury, "it was a jolly fine show-up for Pony. He's sure to get in; the Radicals were nowhere." "And what are you going to say to the doctor in the morning?" asked Riddell. "Eh? oh, I suppose we shall catch it. Never mind, there'll be lots to keep us company.
That couldn't offset our show-up, though, and the whole situation had become so mixed that the public thought all of the elephants were fakes. We had the only genuine one and the best fake also, but they were a pair of white elephants in every sense of the term, and a losing proposition.
"Why, you know, it's the sports, and there are two open events, the hurdles and the mile, and we've got Rawson, of the London Athletic, down against us in both; but I rather back Wyndham. He made stunning time in the March gallops, and he's in prime form now." "Is Wyndham a Willoughby boy?" "Rather. He's our cock, you know, and this will be his last show-up.
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