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"Or to the Equator?" suggested the Dodo, smoothing out his gloves. The Walrus stared for a moment, and then, pointing to the Dodo with the stem of his pipe, inquired, "Vat is dat ting?" The Dodo drew himself up to his full height, and gave him a withering look. "How dare you?" he cried. "Vell, vat is id, anyhow?" chuckled the Walrus. "I never saw somethings like id before, never!"
"Sure could you." "On theaytres?" "Sure." "On the Central Park?" "Sure." "On the country? Oh I guess you couldn't to go on the country mit it?" "Sure could you. All places what you wants you could to go sooner Missis Bailey writes on papers how you is good girls." "Oh, how I likes she should write like that fer me. Oh, how I likes I should be monitors off of somethings."
Two somethings that may have been rain-drops splashed down her cheeks; she turned her face away from Wendy as she wiped them off. "What's to be done?" she asked huskily. "Go back, I suppose. Goodness knows where this will lead to!" "We ought to have taken that other turning." "It's too dark to go that way now. We'd better get back to Glenbury, and try for the 'bus."
I wasn't acquainted with any one in the office, but they had printed somethings of mine, and they were willing to let me try my hand. That was all I could ask." "Of course! You knew you could do the rest. Well, it is like a romance. A woman couldn't have such an adventure as that!" sighed the girl. "But women do!" Burnamy retorted.
There was no particular reason why he should not. And if he had, The threads of the web of life, how subtle they are! The finest cotton of Manchester, the finer meshes of the spider, seem three-inch cables by comparison with those moral gossamers which vulgar eyes cannot see at all, the "somethings, nothings," on which great fates have hung.
But on the Diplomatic side, there were two somethings, CONFERENCES AT HANAU with poor Kaiser Karl, and TREATY AT WORMS with the King of Sardinia; which as minus quantities, or things less than nothing turned out to be highly considerable for his Britannic Majesty and us. HANAU, 7th July-1st AUGUST, 1743.
There's your beauty-box, lookin'-glass, powder puff and powder, all complete. Now a novelty like that will sell " "We couldn't use it," interrupted Mary-'Gusta. "Show me something else." Mr. Kron, disappointed but far from discouraged, showed her something else many somethings. Concerning each he was enthusiastic, slangy, and familiar.
Stockings and shoes I had none, but had made me a pair of somethings, I scarce know what to call them, like buskins, to flap over my legs, and lace on either side like spatterdashes; but of a most barbarous shape, as indeed were all the rest of my clothes.
Even if the superstition proved true; even if the demon did appear; even if he wrung the traveller's neck in sound earnest, there would be no more spiritual agency or phenomenon in the whole tragedy than there is in the parlour-table, when spiritual somethings make spiritual raps upon spiritual wood; and human beings, who are really spirits and would to heaven they would remember that fact, and what it means believe that anything has happened beyond a clumsy juggler's trick.
Stockings and shoes I had none, but I had made a pair of somethings, I scarce knew what to call them, to slip over my legs; a jacket, with the skirts coming down to the middle of my thighs, and a pair of open-kneed breeches of the same, completing my outfit. I had a broad belt of goat's skin, and in this I hung, on one side, a saw, on the other, a hatchet.
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