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My professor was from Barcelona, but he beautifully lisped his c's and z's like any old Castilian, when he might have hissed them in the accent of his native Catalan; and there is no telling how much I might have profited by his instruction if he had not been such a charming intelligence that I liked to talk with him of literature and philosophy and politics rather than the weather, or the cost of things, or the question of how long the train stopped and when it would start, or the dishes at table, or clothes at the tailor's, or the forms of greeting and parting.
Nobody bothers about even numbers. You feel obliged to ask the X's, the Y's, and the Z's from duty, and so you do. It doesn't in the least matter if they are mostly females; you have to ask the family, because if the daughters are grown up they can't be left at home alone they would be getting into mischief.
He was a little more severe than usual on Jacob Storey's Z's, of which poor Jacob had written a pageful, all with their tops turned the wrong way, with a puzzled sense that they were not right "somehow." At last the pupils had all taken their hats and said their "Good-nights," and Adam, knowing his old master's habits, rose and said, "Shall I put the candles out, Mr. Massey?"
The next man in knocked down his wicket before he had played a single ball. It was frightful, and the jeers of the Z's were hateful to hear. But Stephen brightened as he perceived that the next batsman was his brother. "Now they'll pick up!" said he. "No they won't! Greenfield senior skies his balls too much for my taste," cheeringly replied the small Bramble. But Stephen was right.
If this were true as regards a mere duck, why not all the more so as regards the carving of a person of whom I am so very fond as I am of myself? Thus I reasoned. And finally, had not Doctor Z spoken of the coming operation as a small matter? Well then? Thursday at noon I received from Doctor Z's secretary a note stating that arrangements had been made for my admission into St.
Mother said, 'Of course, dearie, and Anthea started swimming through a sea of x's and y's and z's. Mother was sitting at the mahogany bureau writing letters. 'Mother dear, said Anthea. 'Yes, love-a-duck, said mother. 'About cook, said Anthea. 'I know where she is. 'Do you, dear? said mother. 'Well, I wouldn't take her back after the way she has behaved. 'It's not her fault, said Anthea.
Against this was Captain Z's batman, who had a friend in the Staffordshires who was batman to an officer who had a cousin in the War Office, and he said we were going to the Dardenelles. On the top of all these came General Montagu-Stuart-Wortley to inspect us, and, incidentally, to tell us that he himself had not the slightest idea where we were going.
He was full of new courage and strength since he had received Z's message, and he was determined that no one should know what he had suffered. The dinner passed pleasantly enough, and by ten o'clock he was at the musical party. There he found the Wyndhams and many other friends, but he looked in vain for Joe; she was not there.
The alphabet of this country seems to be composed of sometimes a, e, i, o, and u, but generally z's, l's, and t's. "High Jack's ethnology gets the upper hand of his rum for a minute, and he investigates the inscription. "'Hunky, says he, 'this is a statue of Tlotopaxl, one of the most powerful gods of the ancient Aztecs.
Jolly good play, isn't it? Who are you for, A or Z?" "What do you mean?" "Mean? Do you back the A's or the Z's? that's what I mean. Oh, I suppose you don't twig, though. A to M, you know, against N to Z." "Oh," said Stephen, "I back the A to M's, of course; my brother is in that half." "So he is isn't that him going in now? Yes; you see if Ricketts doesn't get him out in the first over!"
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