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Even animistic-minded I got awfully sat upon the other day in Cameroon by a superior but kindred spirit, in the form of a First Engineer. I had thoughtlessly repeated some scandalous gossip against the character of a naphtha launch in the river. "Stuff!" said he furiously; "she's all right, and she'd go from June to January if those blithering fools would let her alone." Of course I apologised.
"Oh, if it's a case of savin' the next dividend," says I, "I'll take another think. I expect you asked for him at the house?" "He was there at one-fifteen and left twenty minutes later," says Mr. Ellins. "Yes; but what kind of clothes was he wearin'?" says I. "Clothes!" snorts out Old Hickory. "What the blithering " "Lemme ask his man," says I, grabbin' the desk 'phone.
Detective McCorquodale departed next with a real cigar between his teeth and a feeling of satisfaction in the recognition that he was no longer a "blithering idiot." Stiles was told to "knock off for the day and go fishin'," and accepted Podmore's five-dollar bill only when it was forced on him. When the trio were alone once more Alderson produced a bottle and three glasses.
"What in blue blazes are you blithering about?" roared the Master, finding his voice and marshaling his startled wits. "Do you mean " "I mean," said Wefers, rebuking with a cold glare the Master's disrespectful manner, "I mean I'm here to shoot that big collie of yours. He was bit by a mad dog, yesterday. So was three other dogs over in the village.
He located Murdoch without difficulty. It was now late, and the old clerk came down the stairs with inoffensive imprecations upon the head of his untimely caller, but his mutterings soon gave way to a cry of delight. "My dear boy!" he exclaimed, embracing him. "My dear boy excuse me, sir, I'm a blithering old man, but oh! sir my boy, you're home again!"
I shouldn't have dreamed that trams could look so big, or bridges so narrow, except in nightmares. And and you can't make your horn heard much, can you, over the noise on the stones? Oh, there was a close shave with that wagon, wasn't it? I felt bristling like a fretful porcupine oh, but a stark, staring mad, blithering, driveling porcupine!"
Have you had a wide experience in proposals?" "I shouldn't tell you if I had. One of flour, two of butter, three " "Three blithering wheelbarrows! Apple Blossom, have you any idea how I love you?" "Don't put me out, Bill. One of flour, two of butter, three eggs " "Now, isn't she the limit?" mused Bill, apparently addressing the crabs.
To expect a summons to death and public shame, to find Bunning. Bunning that soft, blithering, emotional, religious, middle-class maniac Bunning! "Soft-faced" Bunning, as he was called, was the man of Olva's year in whom the world at large found most entertainment.
And, by George, he cried, with sudden vehemence, 'serve 'em right. If I told them once it would fail in England, I told them a hundred times. The London public won't stand that sort of blithering twaddle. Owen stopped and looked round. A cab was standing across the road. He signalled to it. He felt incapable of walking home.
"How do you know?" "I told her I thought it was the cheapest and quickest way out of it, and she said: 'I wonder!" "Have you been discussing her most sacred affairs with her, you blithering " "No, sir," said he, with dignity. "She has been discussing them with me" I have no recollection of what I said as I stalked out of the room.
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