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Larry had started out to be of such assistance as he could, when the figure at the wheel, a man, sprang from the car and helped Miss Sherwood alight. Larry saw that the man was Hunt such a different Hunt! and he had begun a quick retreat when Hunt's voice called after him: "You there wait a minute! I want a little chin-chin with you." Larry halted.
Just before that attempt at assassination, I had a chin-chin with him. The fastest battle cruiser in the Navy, the Denver, is to be placed at my service. It will carry a big amphibian plane, so be equipped to assemble and launch it. Bolton will relieve you from the Presidential guard to-day. We sail in the morning." "Where for, Doctor?"
"You look kinder warm!" ventured the chemist. "I feel it." "And it's going to be warmer. Try an ice-cream soda healthy and invigorating." "And better than any cocktail on such a day!" "I guess! Take one?" "Thank you, yes." So the bright-eyed chemist mixed the beverage and handed it over the counter. "Chin-chin!" he nodded. "Twice," said Ravenslee, lifting the long glass.
Even of pastimes and sports she saw almost none. For 'Thanase there was, first of all, his fiddle; then la chasse, the chase; the papegaie, or, as he called it, pad-go the shooting-match; la galloche, pitch-farthing; the cock-fight; the five-arpent pony-race; and too often, also, chin-chin, twenty-five-cent poker, and the gossip and glass of the roadside "store." But for Madame 'Thanase there was only a seat against the wall at the Saturday-night dance, and mass
"Chin-chin," he said, drank, and gave the flask to Pierre again, who did as did the others, and said "Chin-chin" also. By that salutation of the east, given in the far north, Lawless knew that he had met one who had lighted fires where men are many and close to the mile as holes in a sieve.
"Chin-chin, lilly pijjin," said my new friend, as he picked himself up from the deck and made his way back to his galley with the empty pannikin, whose contents I was glad to have swallowed before jumping out of the bunk, or else it would have been spilt in another fashion. "When you wanchee chow-chow you comee Ching Wang and he givee you first chop."
Other good phrases are "chop-chop" for "hurry up," "chin-chin" for "greeting," and "chow-chow" for "food." A Scotch fellow-passenger was telling me the other day of the saying that "The Scotchman keeps the Sabbath day, and every other good thing he can lay his hands on."
"You're the doctor but I'm glad it's you that'll have to explain to the observatory," and Breckenridge set his exceedingly delicate excess power potentiometer exactly upon the indicated figure. "Well, we've got a few minutes left for a chin-chin before we lift her off." "What's all this commotion about? Dish out the low-down." "Well, it's like this, Steve.
"I'll not ask you to drink with me," he said with a twinkle, "but chin-chin!" and tilting his glass, half-emptied it at a draught. Muttering formally, at a disadvantage and resenting it, Lanyard drank with less enthusiasm if without misgivings. Wertheimer selected a cigarette and lighted it at leisure.
Too muchee los' time; no can stop. The odd conclave assembled about Kitchell's table the club-man, the half-masculine girl in men's clothes, and the Chinaman. The conference was an angry one, Wilbur and Moran insisting that they be put aboard the steamship, Charlie refusing with calm obstinacy. "I have um chin-chin with China boys las' nigh'. China boy heap flaid, no can stop um steamship.
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