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"Have a drop," said he to Pen, "it's recommended to me by the faculty as a what-do-you-call-'em a stomatic, old boy. Give the young one a glass, R., and score it up to yours truly." Poor Pen took a glass, and everybody laughed at the face which he made as he put it down gin, bitters, and some other cordial was the compound with which Mr.
Norvin briefly explained the very ordinary happenings of his trip with the Chief of Police, to which she listened with her usual intensity of interest in the subject of the moment. "You won't have to testify against him in those what-do-you-call-'em proceedings?" she asked as soon as he had finished. "Extradition?" "Why! Why, they'll blow you up, or do something dreadful!"
"They all tell me that I ought not to put on so much manure," replied his father. "The gentry, that is M. le Marquis, M. le Comte, and Monsieur What-do-you-call-'em, say that I am letting down the quality of the wine. What is the good of book-learning except to muddle your wits?
Smirke had built his chapel-of-ease with the money left him by his mother at Clapham. Lord! lord! what would she have said to hear a table called an altar! to see candlesticks on it! to get letters signed on the Feast of Saint So-and-so, or the Vigil of Saint What-do-you-call-'em! All these things did the boy of Clapham practise; his faithful wife following him.
Smirke had built his chapel of ease with the money left him by his mother at Clapham. Lord! lord! what would she have said to hear a table called an altar! to see candlesticks on it! to get letters signed on the Feast of Saint So-and-so, or the Vigil of Saint What-do-you-call-'em! All these things did the boy of Clapham practice; his faithful wife following him.
"He told me a story, sir, which gave me the deepest surprise and pain," said Pen. The major tried to look unconcerned. "What that story about about What-do-you-call-'em, hey?" "About Miss Amory's father about Lady Clavering's first husband, and who he is, and what." "Hem a devilish awkward affair!" said the old man, rubbing his nose.
"You certainly are a what-do-you-call-'em!" thought Margaret but she gravely repeated, "An eclectic," and wrote the name in the blank space. "And here I've been practisin' that there style of medicine fur fifteen years without oncet suspicioning it!
Casinos were not invented: clubs were rather rare luxuries: there were sanded floors, triangular sawdust-boxes, pipes, and tavern parlours. Young Smith and Brown, from the Temple, did not go from chambers to dine at the Polyanthus, or the Megatherium, off potage a la Bisque, turbot au gratin, cotelettes a la What-do-you-call-'em, and a pint of St.
Though, if Japan is at all like the paper screens, I don't know where in that Liliputian country they will find a house, or a husband, or a what-do-you-call-'em thing they ride in, solid enough for our good Jane! With intuitive tact of a very high order, I omitted this entire passage about marrying the Jap.
"They all tell me that I ought not to put on so much manure," replied his father. "The gentry, that is M. le Marquis, M. le Comte, and Monsieur What-do-you-call-'em, say that I am letting down the quality of the wine. What is the good of book-learning except to muddle your wits?
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