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"Can't help it!" yelled back Banana-Skin. "It's his fault. Let him have it. That's right. Get him against the wall." "Come away, you fools!" And Stanley began to pull them off and fling them away furiously. Banana-Skin had a shock when he found himself seized and hurled against the opposite wall. It had been well had Stanley done this earlier, for Doe, turning very white, fell forwards.
He must see without spying; he must hear without sneaking; he must know without asking. It takes a pretty good guesser to be a boss. The first banana-skin which a lot of fellows step on when they're put over other men is a desire to be too popular.
Do I express myself clearly?" concluded Stanley, turning to his colleagues. "Perfectly," said Kepple-Goddard. "Well, Doe, did you grasp the drift of all I said?" "I wasn't listening." Stanley, nonplussed, looked round upon the jury. Banana-Skin muttered: "The little devil!" Bickerton from the fender sighed: "St. St. Ah, me! to think how we've swept and garnished the Gray Doe!
Nobody can suppose that it was there except by the most innocent of accidents. There are people who will suspect everybody. The idea of the Doctor's putting that banana-skin there! People love to talk in that silly way about doctors. Number Five had promised to read us a narrative which she thought would interest some of the company.
I cannot explain how it was, but the figure of Radley stood very clearly before my mind's eye, and this helped me to speak the truth, though my voice broke a bit. "Yes." "Ah!" Everybody considered Banana-Skin to have elicited a damning admission. "Now," continued Stanley, his curiosity superseding his sense of what was relevant, "how many cuts did he give you?" "Ten." "Poor little beggar!
She knew every house-front, every street-crossing, every billboard, every tree, every dog. She knew every blackened banana-skin and empty cigarette-box in the gutters. She knew every greeting. When Jim Howland stopped and gaped at her there was no possibility that he was about to confide anything but his grudging, "Well, haryuh t'day?"
Because, going along to school, with his silly little head full of Artistic Bird Seeds and flowers rainbow-colored, he had let his crutch slip on a banana-skin and had tumbled down, and a butcher's cart had gone over his poor lame foot.
At all events, over a very wide area the cross is thought a potent protection; nor is the belief by any means confined to Christian lands. Mr. Mitchell-Innes tells us that the fear of changelings exists in China. "To avert the calamity of nursing a demon, dried banana-skin is burnt to ashes, which are then mixed with water.
Siegmund rested his arms upon his knees, and sat leaning forward, looking into the barren fireplace, which was littered with paper, and orange-peel, and a banana-skin. 'Do you want any supper? asked Beatrice, and the sudden harshness of her voice startled him into looking at her. She had her face averted, refusing to see him.
Here Banana-Skin, a large and overbearing prefect, so called because of his yellowish complexion, burst in with the skill of a prosecuting counsel: "Oh, then, are we to understand that you were whacked unjustly and had reason for vindictiveness?" "Go easy, Banana-Skin," protested Stanley. "Don't bully the kid."
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