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I never slept a wink all night for thinking of it; but before the servants I put my pipe in my mouth, and kept my mind to myself, for I had a great regard for the family; and after this, when strange gentlemen's servants came to the house, and would begin to talk about the bride, I took care to put the best foot foremost, and passed her for a nabob in the kitchen, which accounted for her dark complexion and everything.
"And see here, these little papers I've served to-day you needn't have any trouble about them in that case. You understand," with a wink. "Dunno ez I does, Marse Sheriff," stolidly. "Oh, well, if you sell to me, I'll take care of them, that's all." "An' ef I don't?" "Oh, well, in that case, you must look out for yourself." He wheeled his horse and rode off with a mocking laugh.
"It's so awkward not to be able to see you when I want to." Captain Bowers ventured a sympathetic wink. "It's awkward not to be able to see anybody when you want to," he said, softly. Two days later Miss Drewitt, peeping cautiously from her bedroom window, saw Mr. Tredgold perched up in the crow's-nest with the telescope.
"To that jeweller's to that big one." "They all seemed big enough; they were too big!" And Mr. Ruck gave me another wink. "That one where we saw the blue cross," said his daughter. "Oh, come, what do you want of that blue cross?" poor Mr. Ruck demanded. "She wants to hang it on a black velvet ribbon and tie it round her neck," said his wife. "A black velvet ribbon?
"He's solemn and dumpish," he declared, thoughtfully, "like he might have distemper. But he 'ain't got distemper. And his teeth ain't sharp, yet he don't eat at all. And I can't see anything the matter with his insides." "Did you look?" inquired the Professor, innocently, but with a quick wink at Stephen. "Yes, I " began the lean man, only to check himself with an angry snort.
"All safe, Grand-daddy?" they cried. "Sure," grinned Grand-daddy. "They are harmless folk. Have you seen a gray paper balloon dangling from the bushes, kiddies?" "I have," cried Wink. "Uncle said hornets lived in it and they were real fighters." "I'll fight 'em, then. I want that nest for medicine. Trot ahead and show it to me." "Hi! hi! Dr. Whiskers!" came a cry from the Lake.
Not finding any adequate reply to make to this astonishing speech, Blazius put the money into his pocket, and, after first administering to his friend a cordial accolade, grasped and wrung his hand with grateful fervour, while an inconvenient tear, that he had tried in vain to wink away, ran down his jolly red nose.
You must have read about them; how they seem to lie in the upper regions of the air, motionless, until suddenly they catch sight of some dead animal far down below when they sweep toward it with the swiftness of the wink. There is another bird of the vulture variety, with wings of black and white feathers. The ancient Incas used to decorate their head dresses with these wing feathers."
We had to rise above party; and I am proud to say we never gave party a second thought. We stuck to CONRAD. Office? If you had had to live for months on aspirin and bromide of potassium to get a wink of sleep, you wouldn't talk about office as if it were a catch. FRANKLYN. Still, you admit that under our parliamentary system Lubin could not have helped himself?
"If you will be careful and remember all I have told you. Be sure to come home before dark." The three little mice trotted bravely away. They went down their elevator, then crawled through a dark subway, until they came to the warm cellar where Uncle Squeaky and his family lived. Aunt and Uncle Squeaky had gone to the city, but all the cousins Dot, Scamper, Wink and Wiggle, were at home.
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