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"I often go and and put my hand on a hot teapot if I'm having too much fun." They looked up at him, puzzled. "Ever slide down hill?" he inquired, looking from one to the other, after a bit of silence. "Oh, not since we were little!" said Miss Letitia, holding her biscuit daintily, after taking a bite none too big for a bird to manage. "Good fun!" said be. "Whisk you back to childhood in a jiffy.
Howsomever, I'd lay ten pounds to a shilling, I could whisk him so dexterously over into the pool, that he should light plump upon his foretop and turn round like a tetotum." "Done!" cried Lord Merton; "I take your odds." "Will you?" returned he; "why, then, 'fore George, I'd do it as soon as say Jack Robinson." "He, he!" faintly laughed Mr.
'Why the whisk broom? I says to myself. 'I been in lots of swell dives and never see no whisk broom served with a drink before. So I watch. Well, this sad-looking sot pours out his liquor, shoots it into him with one tip of the glass; and, like he'd been shot, he falls flat on the floor, all bent up in a convulsion yes, sir; just like that! And the Swede not even looking over the bar at him!
They got in a funk and rushed the thing. Of course they had a motor down the road, and equally of course it was no trick to whisk the body out of the neighborhood. "Sir Henry got half up on his feet with his energy in the solution of the thing. He thrust his spread-out fingers down on the table like a man, by that gesture, pressing in an inevitable, conclusive summing up." The girl paused.
And under cover of this painful but purely fictitious incident he would whisk away the binder on the fireproof building, returning it signed with one and the same movement, and smiling a smile of chastened sorrow over his inability to assist his friend with the undesirable rag offering.
As the hours dragged slowly by, the boy gradually fell into a reverie, which made him almost unconscious of external things. And it was while walking thus that he did not observe a large wolf advance to the edge of the gully, look down, and then whisk back out of sight before the sentinel wheeled in his walk and faced him.
When he had reached the sluice again he found that all Scowl Austin wanted, apparently, was to show him how, when he held the water back with the whisk, it eddied softly at each side of the broad little broom, leaving exposed the swept-up pile. "See?" "What's all that?" "What do you think?" "Looks like a heap o' sawdust." Austin actually laughed. "See if it feels like sawdust.
She drew back lightly; he was favored with the most delicious, low laugh he had ever heard, and, by some magic whisk which she accomplished, there was no sign of tears about her. "Ah! I'm glad you're the same, Joe!" she said. "You never would or could pretend very well. I'm glad you're the same, and I'm glad I've changed, though that isn't why you have forgotten me.
'The woman's father is dead, I hear, Colonel Halkett remarked. 'But he has not been there? 'How can I tell? He's anywhere, wherever his passions whisk him. 'No! 'I say, yes. And if he has money, we shall see him going sky-high and scattering it in sparks, not merely spending; I mean living immorally, infidelizing, republicanizing, scandalizing his class and his country.
He came to the end of it whisk! he sank to the deck; the turban, spread open by the resistance of the air, fluttered down to cover him from head to foot. Apparently he fell asleep at once, for he did not again move nor alter his position. He, as well as an astonishingly large proportion of the other Somalis and Abyssinians we saw, carried a queer, well-defined, triangular wound in his head.
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