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He looked forward to an early return to England, spoke with pleasant anticipation of the soft-pedal piano which his kind friend Mrs Bronson desired to procure at Boston and place in his study in De Vere Gardens, and he dreamed of future poetical achievements. "Shall I whisper to you my ambition and my hope?" he asked his hostess. "It is to write a tragedy better than anything I have done yet.
Dogger I send him a kiss, and I thank him ever so much, and won't he please come and see me very soon." When she had disappeared, the old fellow leaned forward, gazed knowingly at Felix, and in soft-pedal tones said: "You see, Sam couldn't say EXACTLY when the party was to take place because well, because he hasn't heard a word about it, and won't until I get back.
"I'll see myself crazy with the blues first." "You might as well come, kiddo, because I'll get you yet." "Try the soft-pedal stuff about the kid and the Christmas tree on the girl at the Glendale station. Maybe she hasn't cut her eye-teeth." A flush swept his face like quick wind. "You're a bum sport, all righty." "And you! Gee! if I was to tell you what I think you are! If I was!"
"How about it?" "You want me to butt in on it?" "Want you? Holy sufferin' oysters! Carroll, if you didn't work on it, I'd brain you! You're the only man in the State who could " "Soft-pedal the blarney," grinned Carroll. "And now the suit-case again." He dropped to his knees and opened the suit-case.
Looking back on my copy I see only such meager words as "beauty", "glory", "splendor", such pale, inadequate phrases as "super-mundane fertility" and "super-solar fecundity". What use are words and phrases when one speaks of California. It is time for us to abandon them both and resort to some bright, snappy sparkling statistics. Reader, I had to soft-pedal here.
"Now the soft-pedal on slush, eh, Rafaelito?... If you want us to go on being friends, all right, but it's on condition you treat me as a man. Comrades, eh, and nothing more." And with a look at him through those green, luminous, devilish eyes of hers, she had taken her seat at the piano and begun one of her divine songs, as if she thought the magic of her art might raise a barrier between them.
The ship had landed quite a way out, resting on its skids on the long shallow groove the colonists had bulldozed out for it years before, the first year they had arrived on Baron IV. Slowly Pete turned Mario's words over in his mind, allowing himself to worry a little. There had been rumors of trouble back on Earth, persistent rumors he had taken care to soft-pedal, as mayor of the colony.
In telling me of it Woodrow Wilson said: "I was most embarrassed, and replied: 'Colonel, I wish you had not asked me that question. 'Well, what is the answer? Colonel Harvey insisted pleasantly. 'Why, Colonel, some of my friends tell me it is not helping me in the West. Colonel Harvey said: I was afraid you might feel that way about it, and we shall have to soft-pedal a bit'." Mr.
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