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To prison with the dog! Entreaties! Vows! Tears! Hell and the devil! SPIEGEL. And all for a few thousand paltry ducats! CHARLES VON M. No, I hate to think of it. Am I to squeeze my body into stays, and straight-lace my will in the trammels of law. What might have risen to an eagle's flight has been reduced to a snail's pace by law.
The blizzard does not sweep away its vengeful enthusiasm in a day or a night. It comes and it stays departing for a time, it seems that it may gather new strength and fury for an even fiercer attack. And the features of the agent, as he stared up from the rattling telegraph key, were not conducive to relief. "Your stuff's on the way, if that's any news to you," came with a worried laugh.
There was a pause, in which the shaving went on, and then he continued: "Is it he who says, I have eaten Voban's bread, and Voban shall therefore go to prison, or be hurried to Walhalla? Or is it he who stays the iron hand, who puts nettles in Voban's cold, cold bed, that he may rise early and go forth among the heroes?"
"We are very happy on the higher plane, Signor. We are glad that you are studying this great truth of spiritualism," Dante replied. The circle moved with an awed creaking of stays and shirt-fronts. "Suppose suppose there were something to this?" Babbitt had a different worry. "Suppose Chum Frink was really one of these spiritualists!
He is the great Araña that sits in the midst, to run out and to seize and to devour. It began in the Millsborough and Lowport sleeping-houses of the slant-eyed men of the sea, and spreads every day wider and wider its meshes and stays. Some day the web will cover the great towns and countries of the world, unless " "Unless a great Ticodromo come, Pépe. Tell thy tale quickly," said Dick.
"There are two firkins of small beer and a tun of canary. How can we set such drink before the King and his court?" "We must have some wine of Bordeaux. With that and the mottled cow's calf and the fowls and a goose, we can set forth a sufficient repast if he stays only for the one night. How many will be with him?" "A dozen, at the least." The old dame wrung her hands in despair.
"Young people are all alike. Be friendly to a young man, make much of him, regale him with wine, let him understand that he is attractive and he will sit on and on, forget that it is time to go, and talk and talk and talk. . . . His hosts cannot keep their eyes open, it's past their bedtime, and he still stays and talks. That was what I did.
"Well, if she stays here, she must be washed and have on clean clothes. So Sarah has taken her, and is going to fix her all up nice." "Oh oh!" cried Phronsie, in a transport, "and can she have some of Polly's clothes, Mamsie?" "Yes, I guess so. Anyway, we will fix her up all nicely." "And may she stay here for ever and ever," cried Phronsie, "and not go back to that un-nice old lady?
Their dresses I cannot pretend to describe jewels of value were not wanting, but their drapery was slight. They appeared neither to wear nor to require stays, and on the whole, their figures were so perfect, that they could only be ill-dressed by having on too much dress. I requested the honour of Miss Eurydice's hand in a cotillon, which was to open the ball.
Then, after a hard week, followed by some carelessness or exposure, he thinks that he has the grip or a cold. He is lucky if he stays at home and calls in his physician. He does not pick up. Now, for the first time, he hears from the doctor words that he has caught occasionally about men far older than himself "blood pressure." But he he is under fifty! The doctor says he must go slower.
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