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He and an advertisement agent fell out about a question of money, the affair was brought before the courts, and the little plot so got wind. But there is no reason why you should not take the plot and act on it yourself. You are a known man; the public relishes your works; anything bearing the name of Snooks is eagerly read by the masses; and though Messrs.
A sentence of this nature from your pen, my dear Snooks, would, I should think, bring a case of pistols and a double-barrelled gun to your lodgings; and, though heaven forbid you should use such weapons, you might sell them, you know, and we could make merry with the proceeds.
"We can carry you better if you're limp." "I'll be limp enough if I swallow any more of that smoke," choked the actor. "It's fierce!" Indeed, Pop Snooks had been very liberal in the matter of smoke bombs. Great clouds of the black vapor swirled here and there, and Ruth and Alice had to get free breaths whenever they could. "Come on!" yelled the director through his megaphone. "Lively!"
The men of his company, roaring curses at the Frenchmen, prepare to receive and repel a thundering charge of French cuirassiers. The men fight, and Snooks is knighted because the men fought so well. But live or die, win or lose, what do THEY get? English glory is too genteel to meddle with those humble fellows.
The eyes of the two girls met like clashing swords. But in spite of Claire's declaration that nothing would induce her to spend another night at Dolittle Cottage, when it was ascertained that the first train on which she could take her departure left at ten o'clock next morning, she did not seek the hospitality of Mrs. Snooks' roof, nor even suggest sleeping on the lawn.
Con stared at the doctor, a cold, a "stony British" stare. "Why, doctor," he said, "because Snooks has been a a failure, I don't see that's any reason why I should be a cad." The doctor looked at him hard. "I wish I had a son like you," he remarked. "My father is an army surgeon; he's been through the cholera scourge in India twice.
A Maclachlan has spoken it." The doctor went to an inner door and bawled, "Euphemia," and a discontented wisp of a woman answered his call. "Madam and gentlemen, my wife, Mistress Snooks, born a Parker Putwell. Mistress Snooks, like me, will bow to your will with pleasure, nor will you mislike her table, I assure you. Now, my buck, let's see to this crack in your head."
Any hovering hesitation flew before Fanny's manner, when Fanny came with an air of catastrophe to tell that she also knew the horror. Fanny's voice fell to a whisper when she said Snooks. Miss Winchelsea would not give him any answer when at last, in the Borghese, she could have a minute with him; but she promised him a note.
The lawyer received a bundle from his chambers, in which his clerk eased his soul regarding the state of Snooks v. Rodgers, Smith ats Tomkins, &c.
"Don't you get scared," Con would say on these occasions. "I'm with you to the finish for good or ill, and it will be for good, I think." "It sure is for my good," Snooks had said once. "If I pull out of this I'll be another man, and it will be owing to having known you, pard. I had forgotten that such bravery and decency and unselfishness existed. I had " "Oh, quit it! Stop it!" Con smiled.
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