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Judging from its effect on her and the publisher, I may calculate on what bowlers calls a 'ten-strike. But I do not make any such calculation." Now that the author had strongly taken hold of one of the most tangible and terrible of subjects, the public no longer held back. "The Scarlet Letter" met with instant acceptance, and the first edition of five thousand copies was exhausted in ten days.
Say, Cap., you've made a ten-strike today that ought to make you a Major. That house's plum full o' contraband, and there's a lot o' important letters there. But, say, Cap., I want you to either kill that 'Squire or git him as fur away as possible. I ain't safe a minnit as long as him and that woman's a-nigh me." THE REBEL Major accepted the unexpected turn of events with soldierly philosophy.
And after a Nice Girl has had a long and prosperous Run on the Home Circuit and then begins to curl up on the Edges and show signs of Frost, she will find it a very wise Shift to try new Territory and the Chances are that she will make a Ten-Strike. To prove that this is no Idle Jest, it can be demonstrated that the marrying Girl usually goes on the Road a while before she closes a Contract.
Moles, probably, and the inhabitants of the planet Jupiter, do not discern the difference; but I rather think we do. A ten-strike by Venus! well done, Mrs. Gnu," cried the Ambassador; "now, Mrs. Potiphar." The Pacha didn't play; but he asked Mr. Firkin what was a good average for a man, in the game. "Well, a spare every time," said he. "Mr. Firkin," asked Mrs.
"She's as plucky as a terrier," the echo of his chief had said, "and the time will come when she'll sell more goods than any two girls in the store. You made a ten-strike in effecting that exchange."
They are stained with his blood. I could not trust them to chances. I intended to return them to his child. I have never examined them." Joe bounds from his seat. "A ten-strike! Now, you take a look at them when we reach 'Frisco. If there are any to throw a light on his affairs, tell me. Don't breathe a word till I tell you. I will probe the matter. I'll break Hardin's lines, you bet."
He said he said that if the time had come when he couldn't support his own daughter it was high time he was dead. Howard nodded his understanding. 'He's a good sport, I tell you, he maintained warmly. 'And I like him. Who knows but that he may make his ten-strike here after all?
Duncan said she'd never heard anybody lay it on the way you did. I don't believe you half know what happened, Cynthia. You made a ten-strike." "A ten-strike?" she repeated. "Well," he said, "you not only laid out Heth, but my father and Mr. Duncan, too. Mrs. Duncan laughed at 'em she isn't afraid of anything. But they didn't say a word all through breakfast. I've never seen my father so mad.
Made a ten-strike with Mrs. T. this afternoon for sure. "That so?" says Peter. "What's up? Hooked a prince?" A friend of "my daughter's" over at Newport had got engaged to a mandarin or a count or something 'nother, and the Dowager had been preaching kind of eloquent concerning the shortness of the nobility crop round Wellmouth. "No," says Milo, laughing again. "Nothing like that.
Pike read it carefully three times and then told himself aloud that it was not what he would precisely term a love-letter. "I may have made an impression, but certainly not a ten-strike," he thought to himself, as he folded up the missive and put it into the most sacred compartment of his Russia-leather pocketbook, along with the letter of credit. "I fear me that the incident is closed," he said.
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