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"Yes, nowadays, we know," interrupted Senor Ignacio's mother. "Of two women there isn't one that's respectable." "A great ways any one'll go by being respectable," snarled Leandra. "Poverty and hunger.... If a woman weren't to get married, then she might make a change and even acquire money." "I don't see how," asserted Salome. "How? Even if she had to go into the business."
They did talk o' giving him college eddication; but he was so unstiddy, there weren't no use in trying. A real wild ass's colt he was." "Wal', wal', Moses was in the right on't. He took the cross-lot track into life," said the Captain.
Once when he were full o' French brandy he told me that when he were working on t' cliffs in England, he found out that his mate were going to 'squeal, as he called it, about his leaving, so he'd given him such a kick behind when he weren't expecting it that no one had ever heard from him since. He meant, we reckoned, that t' poor fellow had fell off t' bill into t' sea.
Of course your little brother or sister may not have intended to run away, it may have been that they only wandered off, around the corner, toward the candy store, and could not find their way back again. But, when he or she did get home how glad you were to see them! Weren't you? It was just like that at the pen where Squinty, the comical pig, lived.
Rachel remained stubborn as before; but in about half an hour she suddenly declared that she would recite before the two monarchs, which she subsequently did, to the satisfaction of everybody. Some one said to her not long after: "I knew that you would do it. You weren't going to give up the three hundred thousand francs and all your travelling expenses."
Last year we let them alone, because they weren't of our class. This year we'll have to make a fuss over them. Lunch them and take them to ride in our cars and all that. It will be a bore, but it will pay in the end. Once we get a stand-in with them, we can run things here to suit ourselves." "That's a good idea," lauded Marian. "We'll begin this very day."
Look at this too," and he handed over the list of buildings to be destroyed that they had found in the old house. The detective snatched the paper out of his hand and scanned it eagerly. "Where did you get this?" he demanded. "We found it upstairs," said Bob. "Humph," ejaculated the detective and thrust it into his pocket. "Weren't you trailing these Germans too?" inquired Bob.
The big unknown was the precise distance of the source. Readings from a single position could not give distance with high accuracy, so the scientists weren't sure of their figures yet. Winston asked, "Dr. Kerama, do you want to explain what we have decided?" The Egyptian scientist nodded. "Thank you, Dr. Winston.
Mother used to say he was a wonderful man. I think he must have been a good deal like you. Our old nurse used to say that families went in streaks. I guess you and Daddy were off the same streak, weren't you? I hope Allison and I will be, too. Say, Cloudy, can't I have this picture of Daddy to hang in my room in our new house? I love it."
Oh, those penny-pinchers were never open-handed, and all their mean contrivances came from their desire to appear to be poor. Well, we'd show them, we'd prove to them what we weren't mean. Gervaise would have laid her table in the street, had she been able to, just for the sake of inviting each passer-by. Money was not invented that it should be allowed to grow moldy, was it?
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