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The men, accepting it as a signal, rose to their feet and began to sing, and with these great words of aspiration ringing through their hearts they passed out into the night. Among the many who lingered to speak to the doctor were "Mexico," "Peachy," and, of course, his faithful follower, Tommy Tate. "Mexico" drew him off to one corner.
At that moment a young man in blue uniform came on deck farther aft and stood regarding the sunrise. "There he is, that's him, that's Mr. Tate," said the engineer. Charley walked aft and spoke to him, and while he talked earnestly the young man listened with an amused expression on his face.
One day in London a friend told me that on the market in that city they have eggs of five grades new-laid eggs, fresh eggs, imported fresh eggs, good eggs, and eggs. A few days later we were in the Tate Gallery looking at the Turner collection when he told me a story of Turner.
The stage, which Horace called the "Oriole" because it had a yellow breast, was rolling into the yard. "It's my mother my mother," cried the three Parlins together. Yes, and who was that little girl getting down just after her? Her hat covered her eyes. "It isn't Tate Penny!" Why, to be sure it was! There was her dimpled chin; and if that wasn't proof enough, there was the wart on her thumb!
Of all the throng of young gentlemen who gathered about the chair of the old poet at Wills's, Congreve was his prime favorite. That his advice was not heeded was long a matter of pensive regret: What particular quality recommended Tate we are not wholly able to explain. Dryden alleges "charity" as the single impulse of the appointment, not the merit or aptitude of the candidate.
mighty allurin, an' tharupon Tate an' me opens a game with them Mexicans it takes five months to deal. "'But it's plumb dealt out, an' we win. When Tate crosses the Rio Grande with the army goin' back, he shorely has the skelp of every Mexican incloosive of said Princess. "'But I wanders from Willis. Where was I at when I bogs down? As I says, this
Tate offers to let 'em count the lieutenant, but they shakes their heads till the little bells on their sombreros tinkles, an' declines the lieutenant emphatic. "'They p'ints out this yere lieutenant dies in his own game, on his own deal. It's no racket of theirs, an' it don't go to match the man they're shy.
Commissioner Tate tugged gently at his left ear lobe. "Frankly," he said, "that's something that shook me a little." "Shook you? Why?" "It's that matter of experts coming in grades. The upper ranks in the Psychology Service are extremely busy people, I understand. After your first interview we were shifted upward promptly. A couple of middling high-bracket investigators took over for a while.
To my surprise, the two seemed to know one another, for Darrell broke into a scornful laugh, exclaiming: "Again, Master Tate! What, haven't you left this accursed city to its fate yet?" "It awaits its fate," answered the Ranter sternly, "even as those of your superstition wait theirs."
"That's the last you'll see of him," said Philip. "His actions are certainly peculiar," gasped the millionaire. "He did not wait for us. He didn't even wait for his hat! I think, after all, I had better go to Tate Street." "Do so," said Philip, "and save yourself three hundred thousand dollars, and from the laughter of two continents. You'll find me here at lunch.
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