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Updated: June 20, 2025
I thanked God for the first time I'd no one belonging to me. That thought made it easier for me to do what I am doing." He tossed the end of the cigarette into the fire. "I am going to make a bolt for it; and I looked in just to say a few words to you, Heyton. I'm standing between you and a complete bust-up.
She 'happened to be near the door'. It was a real old bust-up. I do wish I knew what it was all about." I thought of Mrs. Raikes's gipsy face, and Evelyn Howard's warnings, but wisely decided to hold my peace, whilst Cynthia exhausted every possible hypothesis, and cheerfully hoped, "Aunt Emily will send him away, and will never speak to him again."
This inferiority of speed on our part had always been rather a sore point with me, and I had had many a talk with Carmichael, the Yakumo's Engineer Commander, about it, who had felt the reproach as keenly as I did, and had assured me that if ever the worse came to the worst, he would undertake to get the extra knot out of the ship, although it would be at the peril of what he elegantly termed "a general bust-up in the engine-room."
Lily had floated into his life as meaninglessly as a mote floats into a streak of light, and then floated out again. He hadn't seen her since since that time in May. "Ass ass!" he said to himself. "If Eleanor knew," he thought, "there'd be a bust-up in two minutes."
It is a form of writing them off. There is a melancholy satisfaction in it. As the years go by Mr. Sims is coming to regard himself and a few others as the lonely survivors of a great flood. All the rest, brilliant as they once were, are presumed to be "boozed," "tanked," "burnt out," "bust-up," and otherwise consumed.
Eliza, bringing in singed and belated toast, looked at her with pity, tinged with admiration. Cook and she had been awakened at midnight by what was evidently, in the words of Cook, "a perfickly 'orrible bust-up," and knowing Cecilia to have been its object, Eliza looked at her as one may look who expects to see the scars of battle.
Some day of course there'll be a bust-up, and then 'three years, prisoner! I shall be in again before long." "That depends upon yourself," said Pelle slowly. "Oh, well, of course you can do something; but the police are always getting sharper, and the man isn't born who won't fall into the trap sooner or later." "You should try and get some honest employment again.
He sat now in a huddled position on the Club verandah, "looking like a sick chimpanzee" as Oakes assured him, "ready to bite if he dared at a moment's notice." Mrs. Ralston was seated near. She had a motherly eye upon Tommy. "Now what exactly do you mean by a 'bust-up, Mr. Oakes?" she asked with her gentle smile. Oakes blew a cloud of smoke upwards.
We can't go through the season without any combination in the three-quarter line, just to spare Norris's feelings. 'It's a pity, though, said the Bishop, 'because Norris is a ripping good sort of chap, really. I wish we hadn't had that bust-up last term. At this point Wilson finished the toast, and went out. As he went he thought over what he had just heard.
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