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"If I swore on a stack of bibles I let a boob like you take it away from me, they'd send me to Matteawan, and God knows, " "Come in!" called out Mr. Yollop. The door opened and a plump, dumpy lady in a pink peignoir, her front hair done up in curl-papers stood revealed on the threshold blinking in the strong light.
"Laugh, you big boob!" howled Bud. "You wouldn't think it so funny if I had you by the collar. 'Fraid to fight, aren't you? You wait! Some day I'll get you and I'll I'll drown you!" Bud had made an unfortunate choice of punishment, for his words carried a suggestion to Bob.
How she has squandered herself upon mountain peaks that are useless except for the Alpenstock Trust; upon violets that can't be eaten; upon giraffes whose backs slope too steeply to carry a pack! Can it be that the Boob is Nature's darling, that she intends him to outlive all the rest? Be sure you're a Boob, and then go ahead. But never, dear Cynthia, confuse the Boob with the Poor Fish.
McGuffey, smothered in guilt, felt nevertheless that he had to stand by his guns, so to speak. "Stay through, if you feel like it," he retorted. "Where d'ye get that chatter? Ain't I free, white, an' twenty-one year old?" Mr. Gibney was really hurt. "You poor boob," he murmured.
"But that long boob, that Pilkington . . . he would never stand for my handing you one and a half per cent." "I thought you were the little guy who arranged things round here." "But he's got money in the show." "Well, if he wants to get any out, he'd better call in somebody to rewrite it. You don't have to engage me if you don't want to. But I know I could make a good job of it.
And there he offered himself as his enemy's slave, and Boob Aheera's slave he is to this day, and his master has protection from the idol.
He was nearly crazy when they caught him at it thought he could be put in jail he forgot, the poor boob ... who he was working for.... I'll never forget how fine the old Chief allayed his fears 'All for a good cause, my boy, he said, in that jovial way of his, 'I have no fear the Lord will look after His own. No wonder he can get people to work for him.
You didn't break training?" "No. But I skated pretty close to the edge. You know, it's funny, but when I'm out with Carter I feel like such a boob, not daring to eat this or that, or smoke or or anything." Heresy this, from the three years' captain of L. A. High who had never considered any sacrifice worth a murmur which kept him fit for the real business of life.
And Peter did not try to deny it, because any kind of denial only caused a fresh access of rage. "All right," Guffey said, "I'll read you this, and you can see just where you stand, and just how many kinds of a boob you are."
In the second, society tacitly sanctions and supports that sheet. Your fashionable friends would call you a barbarian and what is worse a boob." Farquaharson stood in a statuesque ire, and Wayne went philosophically on. "Take the advice of a singularly wise bystander. At least treat it with the contempt of silence until you've consulted the lady.
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