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If me interest at the Horse Guards can avail you, bedad! you'd make a proud man of Major MacBlarney." Mr. "No, sir, we won't have a war; the capitalists of Europe and Australia won't have it. Bullion snaps his pipe in the vehemence with which he brings his hand on the table, turns round the green spectacles, and takes up Mr. Vivian. "But the campaign in India?" Major MacBlarney.
And er if in the course of the interview you should happen to learn her given name er just remember it." "Such as Ella May or Josephine?" "No!" he snaps. "Natalie. Now clear out." Ain't he the foxy old pirate, though? Sendin' me off on a sleuthin' expedition without givin' up a hint as to what it's all about! Was it some back-number romance that this lilac-dipped note had reminded him of?
In the file room, there are about files, each in a paper wrapper, and comprising the title papers of a particular tract of land. You ask the clerk in charge for the papers relating to any survey in Texas. They are arranged simply in districts and numbers. He disappears from the door, you hear the sliding of a tin box, the lid snaps, and the file is in your hand.
"Well, we've got our orders at last," begins the commander, addressing his crew of thirty, and the crew look solemn. For this is the U-47-1/2's first experience of active service. She has done nothing save trial trips hitherto and has just been overhauled for her first fighting cruise. Her commander snaps out a number of orders. Provisions are to be taken "up to the neck."
Starting up, he snaps his fingers, twirls round, first on one foot, and then on the other, till feeling the time approaching when he must give up, he strikes up again: "Shout, shout, the devil's about; Shut the door and keep him out," leaps frog over two or three of the servants' shoulders, disappearing from among them in an immoderate state of conceit and perspiration.
Got anything else?" "Ginger snaps?" "Hooray! Just like being in Chillicothe, isn't it?" Stacy filched a hard cracker and slipped it into the mouth of a papoose on its mother's back.
Continually and from every direction rifles were crackling and rolling; sometimes there was only one shot, again it would be a roll of firing crested with single, short explosions, and sinking again to whip-like snaps and whip-like echoes; then for a moment silence, and then again the guns leaped in the air.
She ran the risk of wasting another minute or two, and went on with the memoirs of Tommie. "I must own, sir," she resumed, "that he behaves a little ungratefully even to strangers who take an interest in him. The servants generally find him and bring him back; and as soon as he gets home he turns round on the doorstep and snaps at the servants. I think it must be his fun.
"But Charles must be at Westminster and in bed these two hours!" "Surely," said he. "'Tis not young Master Charles, ma'am, nor anyone like him: but a badger-faced old gentleman who snaps up a word before 'tis out of your mouth." "Show him in," commanded Matthew: and the words were scarcely out before the visitor stood in the doorway. Mrs.
Just about as you would conclude it has reached a respectable old age and should settle down by its chimney corner, it decides to go travelling. The first breath of wind that comes along snaps it off close to the ground. The next turns it over.
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