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Immediately he began to stammer, and finally said: "I see the Governor coming in, and as I know you will want to hear an exhortation from him, I think that I had better stop." Then one of the old officials leaped up from one of the front seats and said, "I insist upon your going on with your sermon, sir; you ought not be embarrassed by the Governor's coming in. We are all worms!
The battle of Waterloo is an enigma. It is as obscure to those who won it as to those who lost it. For Napoleon it was a panic; Blucher sees nothing in it but fire; Wellington understands nothing in regard to it. Look at the reports. The bulletins are confused, the commentaries involved. Some stammer, others lisp.
Tell me what the reason is." "Because I get tired of you." In all his life he had never been so scorned. He did not see the covert grin of Wilbur in the background. He blurted: "Tired?" "Awfully. You don't mind me being frank, do you, Pierre?" He could only stammer: "Sometimes I wish to God you were a man, Jack!" "You don't often remember that I'm a woman." "What do you mean by that?"
It's Teddy!" He stepped aside, and Manchester, entering deliberately, closed the door. Then he sat down dazedly. "He's gone, boys. The Captain's gone." The words came in a stammer through pressed lips. "I wish it had been I," muttered Swipes brokenly, when they were alone again. "It was all my fault." He burst into a wild sobbing.
Oldfield began to stammer excuses. She interrupted him: "Oh, bother all that; I like you none the worse for speaking your mind." Then, after a pause, "Now excuse me; but suppose Sir Charles should change his mind, and never sign this paper?" "I pledge my professional credit." "That is enough, sir; I see I can trust you.
What IS the matter with you?" "Nothin' . . . nothin'. So you was just jokin', hey? Ha, ha! Yes, yes, wadin' up in a lighthouse would be a pretty good joke. I I didn't see it at first, you know. Ha, ha! I thought you must be off your head. Thought you'd been swimmin' too much or somethin'. So long, I'm goin' to bed." But now it was the helper's turn to start and stammer. "Wait!" he cried.
Then she settled herself beside La Grivotte, made her rest her head against her shoulder, and wiped the blood from her lips. The attack subsided, but weakness was coming back, so extreme that the wretched woman was scarcely able to stammer: "Oh, it is nothing, nothing at all; I am cured, I am cured, completely cured!"
'Leonard conceited! 'Yes; he is getting as stuck up as Tom May himself your model I believe! 'I thought he was yours! 'Mine? 'Yes; you always seem to aim at a poor imitation of him. There was a blushing angry stammer in reply; and she suppressed her smile, but felt triumphant in having hit the mark.
Like a bally collar in a laundry! Oh, damn life! What's he know about it, anyway? Have you got a deck-chair?" "Yes, but " "I'm going to put mine on the fo'c'sle presently. If we don't peg out claims they'll all go, and the fo'c'sle is the best place in the steerage. Where's yours? I'll t-take it there, if you like." He had begun to stammer in the last sentence, suddenly self-conscious again.
He could not guess what was in it, and all he could do was to stammer a few confused words of thanks. The envelope had a very important look, and he was both impressed and mystified. Ted could not repress his eager curiosity, and came around to Will's side. Even Mrs. Carter was intensely interested, and forgot to refrain from showing it. Mr. Hand looked on with a swelling sense of benevolence.
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