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Having disposed of the past, he then turned his attention to the future. Here were two beautiful girls apparently full of money, between whom there wasn't the toss-up of a halfpenny for choice. Most exemplary parents, too, who didn't seem to care a farthing about money. He then began speculating on what the girls would have. 'Great house great establishment great estate, doubtless.
Nobody could have dreamed from his casual tone how carefully he had planned it all out: the visit of Annie and her aunts, the delicate little tea served in the study, the possible little stroll with Annie in his garden. Von Rosen knew that one of the aunts, Miss Harriet, was afflicted with rose cold, and therefore, would probably not accept his invitation to view his rose-garden, and he also knew that it was improbable that both sisters would leave their aged mother. It was, of course, a toss-up as to whether Miss Harriet or Miss Susan would come. It was also a toss-up as to whether or not they might both come, and leave little Annie as companion for the old lady. In fact, he had to admit to himself that the latter contingency was the more probable. He was well accustomed to being appropriated by elder ladies, with the evident understanding that he preferred them. He would simply have to make the best of it and show his collection as gracefully as possible and leave out the rose-garden and the delicious little tête-
And I guess we all got to figuring it that way, because the fact that nothing was said about any theft was strictly along the lines the police were working anyway, and a was a toss-up that they hadn't found the stuff among his effects. Get me?" Get him! This wasn't real, was it, this room here; those two figures sitting there under that shaded lamp?
'I dare say I can s s s sell them both, for that matter, observed Jack, encouraged by the promise. 'Well, replied Sponge, 'I'll take the same for the chestnut; there isn't the toss-up of a halfpenny for choice between them. 'Well, said Jack, we'll s s s see them next week. 'Just so, said Sponge.
"I'm not a man to mind a fortune, nor never was," said Sir Condy, proudly, "whatever her friends may say; and to make short of it," says he, "I'm come to a determination upon the spot;" with that he swore such a terrible oath, as made me cross myself; "and by this book," said he, snatching up my ballad book, mistaking it for my prayer book, which lay in the window; "and by this book," says he, "and by all the books that ever were shut and opened, it's come to a toss-up with me, and I'll stand or fall by the toss; and so Thady, hand me over that pin out of the ink-horn," and he makes a cross on the smooth side of the halfpenny; "Judy M'Quirk," says he, "her mark."
In an hour under that hot October sun the cattle had again become thirsty, and it needed all Bancroft's energy and courage to keep them from dashing into the water. Once or twice indeed it was a toss-up whether or not they would rush over him. He was nearly exhausted when some four hours after the start they came in sight of the little town. Here he let the herd into the creek.
This might not be one in the end but it was clearly a toss-up; and to consecrate a toss-up in this fashion with manufactured unction before a crowd of fashionable free-thinkers for who thought otherwise than freely, or not at all, when they were "dolled" up seemed to her as near a sin as one could find in an age which had abolished them.
I said, though with much regret, that I must subject his person to a search; and hence arose the circumstance which has called for what I fear you will consider a somewhat tedious explanation. I found upon Mr. It was a toss-up whether I should let the poor young man be shot or no, but this little circumstance saved his life.
Then, unconsciously plagiarising Parpon: "Prince or barber a toss-up!" Outside, many had gathered round Medallion. The auctioneer, who liked the unique thing and was not without tact, having the gift of humour, took on himself the office of inquisitor, even as there rose again little snatches of "Vive Napoleon" from the crowd.
'Let him go to the deuce with as many pipes as he can carry; but he shan't have this one. 'Not a toss-up of difference is to be seen in the pair. 'Use your eyes. The Irish bowl is broken, and the English has an inch longer stem! 'O the Irish bowl is broken! Philip sang. 'You've the heart of a renegade-foreigner not to see it! cried the captain.
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