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"Now, that is too good, my love," said Copperas. "I will call poor Tom by any surname you please, but I really can't pass him off for a butler! Ha ha ha you must excuse me there, my love!" "And pray, why not, Mr. Copperas? I have known many a butler bungle more at a cork than he does; and pray tell me who did you ever see wait better at dinner?"
Anything that they might do he was quite sure that they would bungle and, with the hearts of children, the dirty tatters of foreign countries, and the imaginations of exuberant story-tellers, he could see them go, ignorantly, to dreadful catastrophes.
'The great chance is that by Agnes's account she is very much inclined to regard your opinion as a sort of intellectual standard; she has two or three times talked of remarks of yours as if they had struck her. Don't quote me at all, of course. Do it as impersonally as you can 'If you give me too many instructions, said Kendal, returning the letter with a smile, 'I shall bungle it.
"I may come back pursued if I bungle my work and an alarm is raised." "Your work?" she asked, shrinking back a little. "Yes," said he. "Don't ask what it is, Countess. It is in the queen's service." "For the queen I will do anything and everything, as Fritz would." He took her hand and pressed it in a friendly, encouraging way. "Then I may issue my orders?" he asked, smiling.
"Woof!" said Toto, and that meant he understood. The Glass Cat was so proud of her pink brains that she ventured to come close to Dorothy, in order that the girl might "see 'em work." This was really interesting, but when Dorothy patted the cat she found the glass cold and hard and unresponsive, so she decided at once that Bungle would never do for a pet.
To all appearances it was a bungle, the way the chain tangled and kept the anchor from reaching the bottom. And to all appearances Nicholas and I were terribly excited as we strove to clear it. At any rate, we quite deceived the pirates, who took huge delight in our predicament.
And though his hand would bungle and only sketch it, so to speak in his black eyes, scowling slightly over the smoke of his cigar, would come a look which Ethel liked. But vaguely she felt that Amy did not, that it even made her uneasy.
But "the more hurry the less speed" is an old adage; and so it proved in the present case, the men on the mizzen topsail-yard managing so to bungle matters that when, on the expiration of two and a half minutes the outside limit of time allowed by the skipper for reefing a topsail Captain Pigot closed his watch with a snap and replaced it smartly in his pocket, several of the reef-points still remained to be tied.
During that period London revolved in its usual course, reproducing its annual number of events its births, deaths, and marriages; its plans, plots, and pleasures; its business, bustle, and bungle; its successes, sentiments, and sensations; its facts, fancies, and failures also its fires; which last had increased steadily, until they reached the imposing number of about twelve hundred in the year.
Ben will be only too glad to stick by you and all the rest of them," meaning the campers at Camp Cozy and those who bungalowed at the Bungle. He went off, shambling along with his face turned toward the sky and his feet taking care of themselves. Cora looked after him. "Dear old Ben," Cora mused, "everything seems worth while when it takes 'everything' to make such a friend as you can be."
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