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"Money is a very good thing, Captain," answered Rupert, with a smile that appeared to mean more than the tongue expressed "a surprisingly good thing is money! But you must not exaggerate Grace's illness, which I dare say is merely constitutional, and will lead to nothing. I hope your many voyages have produced their fruits?" "And Lucy?"
It had the familiar ring to Shelley and was piquant and engaging even after three years in the trenches, where talk is some free. Keats still had the angel face, but had learned surprisingly of old English words. Then Shelley says to him: "Say, kid, do you like your curls?" And little Keats says very warmly and almost shedding tears: "They're simply hell!" "I knew it," says Shelley.
It grew cold as we rose, surprisingly, dishearteningly cold and we both realized that to sleep in the open would be to freeze. As the night fell, our clothing, wet with perspiration, became almost as clammy as sheet iron, and we shivered with weakness as well as with frost. The world became each moment more barren, more wind-swept and Frank was almost at his last gasp.
Susan saw that they were well shaped legs, surprisingly plump from the calves upward, considering the slightness of her figure above the waist. "I always do that when I leave a car," said the girl. "Sometimes it starts something on the trail. You forgot your package back in the saloon!" "Then I didn't forget much," laughed Susan. It appealed to her, the idea of entering the new life empty-handed.
The type of face and character of bearing are surprisingly un-American. The first ranged from something like the pure Spanish, to something, in its sad fixity, not unlike the pure Indian, although I do not suppose there was one pure blood of either race in all the country.
The soubrette was chewing gum and anathematizing Rosewater as the 'jayest town on the slope, and others were calling for the blood of the manager, who had absconded with the receipts of an unprofitable week. They interested me, as all your weird specimens do, and I found them a surprisingly decent lot, considering that it is the cheapest sort of a vaudeville troupe.
This last category proved surprisingly small, compact enough to be squeezed into the family car "Junior can sit on the box of fishingtackle it's flat and hold the birdcage on his lap" as it made ready to join the procession crawling along the clogged highways.
They were in pretty good preservation, and, in fact, I am wrong in comparing them to Giotto's works, inasmuch as there must have been nearly two hundred years between the two artists. The chapel was furnished with curiously carved old chairs, and looked surprisingly venerable within its little precinct.
But, as was made apparent in due time, Les Avants, at no time inconveniently cold, would be, but for the winds that blow over the snow-clad hills surprisingly hot. To build an hotel here seems a perilously bold undertaking.
"All right, boys; help yourselves!" For a surprisingly long time, the riot was localized in China, where it had begun. Using, alternately, three TV-pickups around the scene of the disturbance, Prestonby watched its progress, and watched successive details of store personnel, armed with clubs and a few knives and sono pistols, hit the riot, shouting their battle cry, and vanish.
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