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Eve and Cain had the best of everything all the way through, for they acted in harmony with their feelings; whilst poor old feeble, vacillating Adam tried to use his worthless old brain-box, and the natural consequence ensued.
"And small blame to it," said the doctor, and went on: "It's a well-made thick head you have, and it's tough you are, my son, not to be killed entirely by such a whack as you got on your brain-box to say nothing of your fancy for trying to cure it hydropathically by taking it into the sea with you when you were for crossing the Atlantic Ocean on the fag-end of a mast.
That evening the old trainer, driving through the village, came on the discomfited artist and drew up to have a word with him. "Oh, dear! Oh, dear! Oh, dear!" began the old man in his sympathetic wheeze. "This is a bad job to be sure, Mr. Joses. So that long mare o' mine had a shot at your pore brain-box. When I heard, I wep' a tear, I did reelly." He shook a sorrowful head.
The police officer was uppermost in him now, but he smiled a certain cordiality at the other's frankly unconventional greeting. "That mostly depends on how many things there are chasing around in his brain-box to keep the works busy," he said gently. The stranger's smile broadened into a laugh. "That don't offer much hope," he replied dryly.
"It's as if everything in my poor little brain-box had been shaken about." "Poor child! And I've been very inconsiderate." "Inconsiderate? How?" "About to-night." "You haven't accepted a party for me?" "It isn't so bad as that. But I've invited someone to dinner." "Mother!" Charmian looked genuinely surprised. "Not Aunt Kitty!" Aunt Kitty was a sister of Mrs. Mansfield's whom Charmian disliked.
He had worried over the man's face since the first time he had seen it. He heaved a deep breath now, and looked perplexedly into the flames. "It's like a word that gits onto the end of your tongue when your brain-box ain't got sense enough to shuck it out," he remarked, lowly. "But I'll git it, some time if I don't go loco frettin' about it."
Then you shall have a present! now I will blow up your brain-box so that you shall not only remember, clearly and distinctly, what you have seen and heard, but when anything is told or read in your presence, you shall be so clear-headed that you will also see it." "That is certainly much!" said the old street-lamp; "I thank you much; if I be only not re-cast."
MARSHAL. What, shoot over the handkerchief? Baron, are you mad? What can you be thinking of? FERDINAND. Lay hold of it, I say! or you will be sure to miss your aim, coward! How the coward trembles! You should thank God, you pitiful coward, that you have a chance for once of getting something in your empty brain-box. I'll take care of that. MARSHAL. Surely you will not fight in the chamber?
"Suppose the robbery and murder had nothing to do with the old crime at all, but that the murderer knew this to be a deserted place where he could make a good haul without being discovered. The two old men sat in the right wing, quite unsuspicious, when " "When in walks Mr. Murderer, chokes the captain, knocks his friend on the brain-box, and makes off with the money!" continued Patsy, gleefully.
'Animal, that shake your belly-bag and brain-box, stand! cried the Greek, who desired to see Luigi standing firm that he might inspire himself with confidence in his integrity. When Luigi's posture had satisfied him, he turned and went off at great strides. 'He does pay, Luigi reflected, seeing that immense virtue in his patron. 'Yes, he pays; but what is he about?
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