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He recommended a nip of brandy, and set me the example, and presently I felt better. I turned the manhole stopper back again. The throbbing in my ears grew louder, and then I remarked that the piping note of the outrush had ceased. For a time I could not be sure that it had ceased. "Well?" said Cavor, in the ghost of a voice. "Well?" said I. "Shall we go on?" I thought. "Is this all?"
"When I picked it up, an injun-rubber stopper rolled out, and as ther' wan't no value in a hank'cher, I saw no harm in keepin' it for a'mento of ole Marster's death." "You knew it was a lady's handkerchief." "No, sir! I didn't know it then; and what's more, I don't know it now." "Is not this the identical handkerchief you found?" "Cant say. 'Dentical is a ticklish trap for a pusson on oath.
"And while Roger was telling me this Family Herald romance, I saw approaching from the end of a gallery a wonderful cloud of lace and satin; it surrounded this rider from a wandering circus, and I admired those shoulders, those dazzling shoulders, on which undulated a necklace of diamonds as big as the stopper of a decanter. They say that the Minister of Finance had sold secretly to Mrs.
Some are placing at the back of a new gallery a pinch of pollen which will benefit nobody and then shutting up the house with an earthen stopper as thick, as carefully made as though the safety of a family depended on it. Born a worker, the Osmia must die working.
Bud was weaving in and out through the herd, scanning the animals closely. While the two talked he singled out a yearling heifer, let Stopper nose it out beyond the bunch and drove it close to the boss. "Better look that one over," He called out. "One way, it looks like AJ, and another way I couldn't name it. And the ear looks as if about half of it had been frozen off.
Shall I never have finished with this confounded business?" In fact, an incredible ill-luck seemed to dog his footsteps, compelling him to grope about at random, without permitting him to use the elements of success which his own persistency or the very force of things placed within his grasp. Gilbert gave him the crystal stopper. Gilbert sent him a letter.
Grant's, dad," she explained. "I'm afraid we cannot accept the invitation. We are so busy." "The worst of excuses," said Hart. "But there is a London correspondent here who hands in a long telegram at that hour." "What's his name?" "Mr. Peters." "Great Scott! Jimmie Peters here? I'll soon put a stopper on him. He'll come, too jumping. See if he doesn't. Is it a bargain? Short telegram at six.
Cyril accompanied the lawyer to the door, and then returned upstairs. "Now I can speak," Captain Dowsett said. "I have had hard work to keep a stopper on my tongue all this time, for I have been well-nigh bursting to congratulate you. I wish you joy, my lad," and he wrung Cyril's hand heartily, "and a pleasant voyage through life.
He didn't think that it would come very heavy at first; and, once landed, we need not care how hard it blew. He tendered me over the gunwale a pocket-flask covered with leather, and with a screwed silver stopper in the shape of a cup. It was from the captain; full of prime rum. We were pretty sure to get wet. He thrust, also, into my hands a gray woollen shawl. Mrs.
This ascending and descending stopper is hollow, carpeted, with cushioned seats, and is watched over by two condemned souls, called conductors, one of whom is said to be named Ixion, and the other Sisyphus. I love New York, because, as in Paris, everybody that lives in it feels that it is his property, at least, as much as it is anybody's.
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