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My old dad went and beat the block off a fellow down our street, and it done him a lot of good." Mrs. Porter shook his gloved hand. "Mr. Dingle," she said with enthusiasm, "I really believe that you are the only sensible man I have ever met. Your common sense is astonishing. I have no doubt you saved Mr. Winfield from a nervous break-down.
Edith's nervousness was increasing, and she knew her break-down might come any time. She could not even get her proper rest, for she was haunted by the fear that Hans would yield to his mania and kill Dennin while she slept. Though January had already come, months would have to elapse before any trading schooner was even likely to put into the bay.
Caleb looked wonderfully grave, and attempted to shake his head; but Vic saw, by the gleam in his eyes, that it was all pretence, and clapping her hands like a little gypsy as she was, dashed into a break-down on the grass, calling out, "Hi, dic-a-dory, I told yer so I told yer so!"
Only the wonderful power of God sustained us, for it was break-down work. At the close of the second day I was compelled to rest. San Jose generously supplied me with an immense telescope basket filled to its utmost capacity with canned goods, cooked meats, etc., so that it required the assistance of two to put it on the train, it was so heavy.
From these Captain Haldane, who was in command, with a detachment of the Dublins, kept up a steady fire on the enemy, while Churchill worked to clear the track. To assist him he had a company of Natal volunteers, and those who had not run away of the train hands and break-down crew. "We were not long left in the comparative safety of a railroad accident," Churchill writes to his paper.
If it hadn't been for a break-down in that big motor standing outside in the stableyard, I shouldn't have had two gentlemen staying in my best rooms to-night. I never find fault with money!" She laughed and nodded again in the pleasantest manner. A slow smile went round among the men, it was impossible not to smile in response to the gay good-humour expressed on such a beaming countenance.
They have the omnibus to themselves, which, of course, pleases them. John shakes his head dubiously as he enters the vehicle. He has glanced at its condition, and declares they will be lucky indeed to reach Algiers without a break-down.
Malone's fine, solitary and generous act gave to the speedy break-down of the Administration's resistance. His sacrifice lightened ours. Women ought to be willing to make sacrifices for their own liberation, but for a man to have the courage and imagination to make such a sacrifice for the liberation of women is unparalleled. Mr.
The palace on Fifth Avenue was not even in her name. When she realized that, there was a scene but this is not a history of the quarrels of Carmen and her husband after the break-down. The reader would not be interested the public of the time were not in the adjustment of Mavick and his wife to their new conditions.
How long he would have gone on thus it is hard to say. Mr Armstrong cut short the scene rather abruptly. "There, there!" said he. "Good-bye, Gustav. I shall go very soon, and will come and see you when I return." And he went back to the performance. "You've missed it!" said Tom, as he dropped into his seat. "It was the finest `break-down' you ever saw!
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