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"Thank heaven I'm right on that score and don't even expect much trouble unless the world would get turned upside down." "Which is an unlikelihood," said Phillip adroitly. And much as we speak of the uncertainties of this world, the latter remark might be accepted as a truism in regard to the pecuniary affairs of Hubert Tracy.
"If you will sit down now I will direct you," continued Madame, authoritatively. The Prophet sat down at the table, holding a lead pencil upside down in one hand and an account-book wrong side up in the other. "Let's see what's to-day?" inquired Madame, of her husband. "The seventeenth, my dear," replied Mr. Sagittarius, looking at his wife with almost sickly adoration. "To be sure.
Innumerable tin plates and cups laid upside down were guarded by iron cutlery. It was very dark and still, and the flies buzzed. Beyond, Bobby could hear the cook and his helpers, called cookees. He decided to visit them; but he knew better than to pass through the dining room. Until the bell rang, that was sacred from the boss himself.
"But you have such a queer way of expressing yourself. At first I thought you were talking of upsetting everything." "I? Mercy, no. I've no idea of upsetting anything. I'm only hoping I can help straighten a few things that have been tumbled over or turned upside down."
Inherited tendencies, savage breeding, and passion had brought her to a state where she could have such ideas. It was a hellish idea, the counsel of a restless devil who had stolen into a defenceless woman's heart. She turned everything so upside down that Topándy ran away to town, until the rooms should be again reduced to order.
The stars and stripes of America, and the white flag and lilies of France, wave in triumph. While the band plays a quaint old English melody, "The World Turned Upside Down," the British troops, over seven thousand in number, slowly march between the columns of the combined armies and lay down their arms. Cornwallis was not there.
And the infuriated Gaul launched a blow with his fist at Letstrayed that knocked that astonished person out of his chair and tumbled him flat on the floor, with the chair upside down on top of him. "Here, don't let's have another attempted murder in the castle, La Violette," remonstrated Holmes, as he pulled back the enraged cook from a further assault on Letstrayed; "contain yourself.
Yet the world is really upside down as far as we are concerned, and it is quite absolutely impossible that the situation should end so normally as to find us quietly retreating down the Tientsin road. Others kept sending out servants to discover at what price carts would undertake to drive the whole way down to the sea, or at least to Tientsin.
Her tresses began to lift and rise and spread and stream and flow and flutter. And North Wind and Diamond went flying southward. The sea slid away from under them like a great web of shot silk, blue shot with gray, and green shot with purple. The stars appeared to sail away past them, like golden boats on a blue sea turned upside down.
At first glance he thought, as Billy Jordan had thought, that the animal was tied there. And then he saw that the bridle-reins were upon the ground, that they had been trampled upon and broken, that the two stirrups were hanging upside down in the stirrup leathers as stirrups are likely to do when a saddled horse has been running riderless. She had been to investigate the Secret!
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