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Don Mike joined with him and the charged atmosphere cleared instantly. "Bill Conway, you're twenty-four carat all through." Farrel laid a hand affectionately on his father's old friend. "Be sure to come down to the hacienda tomorrow night and get your check. We dine at six-thirty." "As is?" Conway demanded, surveying his rusty old business suit and hard, soiled hands. "'As is, Bill." "Fine!
"Lor', don't she speak!" said Stevens, appealing confidentially to the nearest tree. "It's like a dictionary." "And you won't lose by it in this life," the girl added eagerly. "See, here is my watch and my chain. You shall have that if you will let me through?" "Let's see it." He opened it and examined it critically. "Eighteen carat it's only a Geneva, though. What can you expect for a Geneva?"
The grand huntsman and all his staff were seeking the horse with as much anxiety as the eunuch and his people the spaniel; and the grand huntsman asked Zadig if he had not seen the King's horse go that way. "'A first-rate galloper, small-hoofed, five feet high; tail three feet and a half long; cheek pieces of the bit of twenty-three carat gold; shoes silver? said Zadig. "'Which way did he go?
"I think it's we who are not '18 carat," he answered furiously. "We have shown Mrs. Crofton the grossest discourtesy, and I happen to know that she feels it very much." Janet Tosswill looked at her elder stepson with a feeling of blank amazement. It had often astonished her to notice how completely Jack had his emotions and temper under control.
Do you think a gospel car would catch him for half a dollar? He would see you in Hades first. The best way is to take a little eighteen carat religion along into the smoking car, or any other car you may happen to be in.
Myrtle fossilized them as suddenly as if she had been a Gorgon instead of a beauty. The guests in whom we may have some interest were in the mean time making ready for the party, which was expected to be a brilliant one; for 24 Carat Place was well known for the handsome style of its entertainments. Clement Lindsay was a little surprised by his invitation.
The Senate were not unanimous in rendering the 'Senatus-consulte'. The three votes given against it were said to have been Gregoire, the former constitutional Bishop of Blois, Carat, who as Minister of Justice had read to Louis XVI. the sentence of death, and Lanjuinais, one of the very few survivors of the Girondists, Thiers says there was only one dissentient voice.
William Murray Bradshaw, ten years older than herself, a young man of striking aspect and claims to exceptional ability, had kept his eye on her of late; but it was generally supposed that he would find a wife in the city, where he was in the habit of going to visit a fashionable relative, Mrs. Clymer Ketchum, of 24 Carat Place.
The stock-in-trade of this fortune-teller consisted merely of a convincing manner, a few words of scientific jargon, a great deal of impudence, and much good luck. All these things together so impressed the people that as often as not they would cry, "Miraculous!" In short, although the woman's ignorance was quite twenty-three carat she passed for a veritable oracle.
It was agreed that Lord Rawson should drive his friend to Marryborough the next Tuesday, and that he should return on Wednesday, with Holloway, to Westminster, on purpose that he might meet Mr. Carat there, who was then to deliver the prizes. "I'll lay you a bet," cried Lord Rawson, as he left the Jew's, "that you'll have a prize yourself.
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