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"He changed his mind probably. No reason why he shouldn't." "Well, it's jolly rummy." Bob endeavoured to find consolation. "Anyhow, you'll have three years in the first. You're a cert. for next year." "Hope so," said Mike, with such manifest lack of enthusiasm that Bob abandoned this line of argument. When one has missed one's colours, next year seems a very, very long way off.
Still, it's a sickening nuisance. Leicester's are a cert now. 'Absolute cert, said Lorimer; 'Baynes can't do all the bowling, especially on a hard wicket, and there's nobody else. As for our batting and fielding 'Don't, said-Pringle gloomily, 'it's too awful.
The old chap's screwing up his courage now with brandy and soda to tell you so!" Trent laughed heartily. The situation began to appeal to him. There was humour in it which he alone could appreciate. "Does he expect me to send you away?" he asked. "That's a cert!" Miss Montressor affirmed.
George shifted the hand that firmly held Abishag on the seat between them; squeezed that fine creature's head to him with his arm; with his handkerchief wiped his sweating palms. "It's going to be awkward," he said "damned awkward! I see that. Oh, Bill!" He groaned. This young man was in desperate agitation. "Buck up," Bill told him. "This is a cert. Safe as houses." "All very well for you, Bill.
He'll get booked for a cert. He can't see that. I never saw such a man. 'Rally round, said Charteris, 'and reason with me. I'll listen. Tony, what do you think about it? Tony expressed his opinion tersely, and Charteris thanked him. Welch, who had been reading, now awoke to the fact that a discussion was in progress, and asked for details.
With this, the agent retraced his steps, crossed the landing on to which Fandor's flat opened, and began to mount the next flight leading to the third floor. This did not suit Vinson: he was on tenterhooks. "If he keeps coming up," thought the corporal, "much use it will be for me to retreat upwards! He will nip me on the sixth floor! It's a dead cert!" Then he had a brilliant idea.
I've not got my colours 'You're a cert. for them. 'Hope so. Anyway, I've not got them yet, and Norris has, so I can't very well go slanging him to Hill. Sort of thing rude people would call side. 'Well, I'll look out tomorrow, and if it's as bad as you think, I'll speak to Hill. It's a beastly thing to have to do. 'Beastly, agreed Marriott. 'It's got to be done, though.
But I go round to Lockwin's, and he seem to hope I'd win. He beats me." "Why, he's the machine man, Corkey. You don't expect to beat the machine?" "Cert. All machines is knocked out, some time, ain't they?" "Not by the marines, Corkey." "I can lick the man who comes down on these docks to say I'm going to get the worst of it."
"Jolly rummy," mused the subaltern. "It's a dead cert that none of my men fired. Some one did. Why and for what reason?"
Lupin said "It is not speculation, it's a dead cert." I advised him, at all events, not to continue the pony and cart; but he replied: "I made 200 pounds in one day; now suppose I only make 200 pounds in a month, or put it at 100 pounds a month, which is ridiculously low why, that is 1,250 pounds a year. What's a few pounds a week for a trap?"
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