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The preacher she sent away off for, because she was bound to git some'n extra, was installed at the hotel. He is a wheel-hoss; he dressed as fine as a fiddle, with a plug-hat and dashboard shoes, and had a long jimswinger coat that come to his knees.
"Yes," said Patty, "I'll be there for dinner. Good-bye, Mona." After Mona had gone, Patty turned to Susan. "You know, Susan, this is to be a dead secret. Don't ever tell anybody. And you must obey my orders implicitly. I'll pay you something extra for your trouble." "Sure, it's no trouble at all, Miss Patty. I'd do anything for ye, whativer. But you must be afther tellin' me just what to do."
"This is one time that I'm ahead of you. While you've been talking I've been planning a way to do just that. There's an extra firing tube that can hold the pressure we want. "Fuel for all the blasts is compressed in one chamber, then discharged through any desired tube. If we put the water under the pressure, with the hydraulic system, and let it seep into the chamber at a set rate it might work!
But they did so want to come, all of them, and Hazelbridge is not nearly as far as Canterbury, really, so even Martha was allowed to put on her things I mean her collar and come with us. She walks slowly, but we had the day before us so there was no extra hurry. At Hazelbridge we went into B. Munn's grocer's shop and asked for ginger-beer to drink.
In the ward-room were all the other officers, two in each state-room; and Minor, being an extra lieutenant, had to sleep in a hammock slung in the ward-room. Ord and I roomed together; Halleck and Loeser and the others were scattered about. The men were arranged in bunks "between-decks," one set along the sides of the ship, and another, double tier, amidships.
Notwithstanding the arrival of these vessels, I should have made an effort to go to sea, but for the timely discovery of further defects in my boilers, which took place under the following circumstances: An English steamer, having arrived from Liverpool with an extra quantity of coal on board, offered to supply me.
All this is not idle fancy, on which the painter has been lavishing needless pains; he is hinting that Alexander has also another love, in War; though he loves Roxana, he does not forget his armour. And, by the way, there was some extra nuptial virtue in the picture itself, outside the realm of fancy; for it did Aetion's wooing for him.
"Sylvia, run quick and have Hélène smooth your hair. And call to Tojiko to put on an extra place for luncheon. Arnold, take Mr. Sylvia, running up the stairs, heard her late companion protesting: "Oh, just for a change of clothes, only a minute you needn't expect me to do any washing. I'm clean. I'm washed within an inch of my life yellow soap kitchen soap!"
And I opened the door. "But you have not told me all." "You had better not wait until I do tell you all. Such extra communicativeness could give you no pleasure. March!" "Cross thing!" said she; but she obeyed: and, indeed, the first classe was my territory, and she could not there legally resist a notice of quittance from me.
It speaks volumes for the permeating atmosphere of "having the time of your life" that its owner laughed when the wreck was shown to her. "I don’t care a bit," she said. "I can go down to Delmonico’s an’ get me another to-morrow mornin’, easy." "What a trump you are, Aunt Mary!" said Jack admiringly. "Here, Burnett, fish her out that extra cap from the cane rack; there’s always one in the bottom.
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