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Why, I don't even know my great-grandmother's name," she laughed, "much less whether she were good or bad." "Oh, but the bad things last so!" said Sally. "Nobody says any thing about the good things: it's always the bad ones. I don't see why people like to: if they didn't, there'd be some chance of a thing's being forgotten."
Do you know that you gave me the fright of my life to-night, going out without saying where you were going to? Do you know that you put me into such a state that I've been telephoning to police-stations to find out whether there'd been any street accidents happening to a woman of your description? I was so upset that I daren't even go upstairs and call Sissie."
Ellen had been well-heeled suspiciously so for a girl who lived in a cold-water flat like that; he'd peeled fifteen tens from her wallet, and there'd been more, not to mention the twenties. His conscience bothered him a bit, but he was in no position to worry too much.
There are nine planets circling the sun, including the earth. Ruling out the sun, it seems to me that there is but one chance in eight that you are right." "If it were simply a matter of chance, there'd be a lot of weight behind your argument, Ned. But a lot of other factors enter the problem. I should say that the only planets where life as we know it might exist are Mars and Venus.
If he works well we're both getting old, and my brats are chicks we might, by-and-by, give him a share. 'Make a brewer of him? Ha! there'd be another mighty sacrifice for his pride! 'Come, come, Tom, said Andrew, 'he's my wife's brother, and I'm yours; and there, you know what women are. They like to preserve appearances: we ought to consider them.
The Shpigulin men!" roared the crowd. I remember some very characteristic exclamations: "I've had a presentiment in my heart that there'd be arson, I've had a presentiment of it these last few days!" "The Shpigulin men, the Shpigulin men, no one else!" "We were all lured here on purpose to set fire to it!"
After the first night there'd be just one theatre doing business." She frowned quickly, her eyes darkening as they had when she struck with her whip at her tired horse. Then she shrugged her shoulders and laughed again. "You're very flattering," she said in a way which made Dart look at her sharply and which for a very brief time left him a little uncertain. "Me?" he said. "You wrong me, lady.
"There'd be no need for any one to break open such a lock as this," muttered Robert, as he lifted the lid of the trunk. He slowly emptied it of its contents, taking out each article separately, and laying it carefully upon a chair by his side. He handled the things with a respectful tenderness, as if he had been lifting the dead body of his lost friend.
If the government did not do thus and so there'd be a strike. That was meanin' that guns would be lacking, or shell, or rifles, or hand grenades, or what not in the way of munitions, on the Western front. But the threat was sae vital that it won, tae often I'm no saying it was used every time. Nor am I saying labor did not have a richt to what it asked.
'You stick to that then, and 'ullo, there is Budkin come at last! Must go back to Miss Mabel, hey? Well, well, I won't keep yer; good-bye till the day after to-morrow then, and don't you forgit what you'd 'a been if you'd been thrown on the world without an uncle there'd be no pretty Miss Mabel for you then, whatever you may think about it, young chap!
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