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Passing to other subjects, he said that so far he had caught nothing but linnets on the common you couldn't expect to catch other kinds in June. Later on, in August and September, there would be a variety. But he had small hopes of catching goldfinches, they were too scarce now. Greenfinches, yellow-hammers, common buntings, reed sparrows all such birds were worth only tuppence apiece.
That man, Danvers, was shadowed on the way over, wasn't he? And it's more likely to have been a woman than a man " "I don't see that at all." "I am absolutely certain that it would be a woman, and a good-looking one," replied Tuppence calmly. "On these technical points I bow to your decision," murmured Mr. Beresford. "Now, obviously this woman, whoever she was, was saved."
"That's 'im," cried Wickens's boy, suddenly struck with a sense of his own importance as a witness. "That's 'im that the lady kissed, and that gev me tuppence and threatened to drownd me." "And with a 'umble and contrite 'art do I regret that I did not drownd you, you young rascal," said Smilash. "It ain't manners to interrupt a man who, though common, might be your father for years and wisdom."
"I shouldn't 'arf wonder, from the look of him, if he wasn't the 'aughty kind of a feller who'd cleave you to the bazooka for tuppence with his bloomin' falchion. I'm goin' to 'urry through with my dressing and wait till to-morrow night to see how he looks. No risks for Willie!" The suggestion seemed thoughtful and good.
A few picked souls at a time; or, even when it's a tea, just casual introductions at decent intervals, and not too many references to the immortal work." "It's simply great for Gora, anyhow; for, big or little, they're her own sort. And they're not snobs, They don't care tuppence for us." "You're right there.
I confided "Tuppence" to the care of the ship's carpenter and begged him to find a spare lifebelt for him, so that if the worst came to the worst he could use it as a little raft! We watched the two destroyers pitching black against the dashing spray as they sped along on either side convoying us across.
She doesn't care tuppence for the Turner boy, but he's musical, and she's quite music-mad, and now and then they 'accidentally' meet. Her father won't let anyone see her at the house. She wants to study abroad, but they can't afford it, I imagine, so I've written to see if I can interest a friend of mine in Berlin But why do you smile?" she broke off to ask innocently.
This splendid main road in the course of its immense journey across Southern England, extended feelers to many settlements of man, providing them as it were with a talent which, according to the energy of the settlement, might be increased a hundredfold drained, metalled, tarred, and adorned with splendid telegraph poles and wires or might be wrapped up in a napkin of neglect, monstrous overgrown hedges and decayed ditches, and allowed to wither: the splendid main road, having regard to its ancient Roman lineage, disdainfully did not care tuppence either way; and for that matter Penny Green, which had ages ago put its feeler in a napkin, did not care tuppence either.
Hastily, the three searched. A charred mass in the grate indicated that Mrs. Vandemeyer had been burning papers on the eve of her flight. Nothing of importance remained, though they searched the other rooms as well. "There's that," said Tuppence suddenly, pointing to a small, old-fashioned safe let into the wall. "It's for jewellery, I believe, but there might be something else in it."
Come on, we'd better take a taxi." "Now who's being extravagant?" "All expenses paid, remember. Hop in." "At any rate, we shall make a better effect arriving this way," said Tuppence, leaning back luxuriously. "I'm sure blackmailers never arrive in buses!" "We've ceased being blackmailers," Tommy pointed out. "I'm not sure I have," said Tuppence darkly. On inquiring for Mr.
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