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To these were added some of the brilliant white-metal ornaments that pass for silver among the very youngest pale-face children. Two Arrows put on his full share of all that was offered and became a very gay-looking young Indian. There was no danger that he would stand on his head and spoil his ribbons, but he felt almost too proud to stand on his feet.
It was a little trying having to argue with a man, of whom one could not predict with certainty that at any given moment he would not be under water. It tended to spoil the flow of one's eloquence. The best of arguments is useless if the listener suddenly disappears in the middle of it. "Stick to it, old horse," said Ukridge. "I think you're going to bring it off." I stuck to it. "Mr.
And Olga answered lightly, "I'm not going to mind anything or think of anything serious all day long." He laughed. "I'm with you there. It's a jolly world, isn't it? And it's a shame to spoil it. As a matter of fact, I tried to get Peggy for a companion, but her mother wouldn't hear of it. I am too headlong and Peggy is too precious." Olga laughed.
He looked first at the little gold ring on the hand and then at the scar. "Don't," she said piteously. "Avery why did you do it? why did you do it?" "Oh, you know you must know now, Walter." "Avery, did you break my heart and spoil my life and your own simply because your face was scarred?" "I couldn't bear to have you see me hideous," she moaned. "You had been so proud of my beauty.
Not that I blame you for being angry. We only thought of one thing our love " her voice broke at the word, "and our own happiness. We did not consider others. It is that which sometimes has made me afraid, that we believed ourselves above the law. And now that we have begun so well, don't spoil it, Hugh!
Pretty soon they came to the house where the man lived, and his little boy was there, and very delighted he was when he heard that he was to have some new paper on his room. “May I watch you put it on?” he asked Uncle Butter. “Yes,” answered the old gentleman goat, “if you don’t step in the paste, and spoil the carpet.” The little boy promised that he wouldn’t, and Uncle Butter went to work.
"No! damn it! you are not grateful. You sha'n't be grateful!" cried St. George with a boyish laugh, seating himself that he might fill his pipe the better from a saucer of tobacco on the table. "If you were grateful it would spoil it all. What you can do, however, is to thank your lucky stars that that greasy red pocket-handkerchief will never be aired in your presence again.
It's a long time since I saw you, more than a fortnight, I think. Have you been ill?" "So you remarked my absence! That is very flattering, my dear cousin; you do not often spoil me by such attentions. No, I have not been ill, thank God, but I thought it better not to intrude upon you so often. A friendly call now and then such as to-day's is what you like, is it not?
"I guess we'd better not take a chance," he replied at length. "Such a whale of a lot depends on his not knowing that I'm alive and kicking; I'd hate like the devil to spoil everything now by his getting a glimpse of me. Besides, for all we know they may be coming through here to meet somebody the rest of the gang, perhaps, or " "That's right," interrupted Bud hastily. "Let's go.
Thick cakes of a dark brown colour with an unpleasant odour should be avoided; they are too easily affected by the atmosphere, turn bad in the gluepot under very little provocation from damp warm winds, and spoil the look of good and refined workmanship.