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"One thing more, gentlemen," said Chalmers, as the chopfallen committee of the Middle West Construction Company rose to depart; "I wish to remind you that there is a forfeit clause in your contract for delay, so I should advise you to resume operations at once. Mr. Platt succeeds the unfortunate Mr.
"And are you ready to do what the good order of the school requires?" "Yes, sir." "Very well; you can go." The chopfallen Riley went back to his seat, convinced that it would not do to rebel against the new teacher, even if he did not use the beech switches. But Mr. Williams was also quick to detect the willing scholar.
On making inquiry on board the Doris, Captain Wilkinson and myself found that no packages of the kind were on board, and on telling the parties engaged in spreading the report the result of our inquiry, they seemed much chopfallen, but would not retract their charge, which I am certain they intend to carry to the Supreme Director, the consequence of which would be, that were the report true or false, the Government would blame your Lordship, and accuse us of being your abettors; whilst, as the want of pay and prize-money renders the officers irritable, they are ready for anything and everything which might promise to relieve their necessities.
"And no promises either, if you please. I attach no kind of value to them. Stay here is my check for the fifty pounds forwarded by your father. With that sum extricate yourself from debt. You know the rest." Hereupon Dr. Chéron replaced the cards and the printed form, double-locked his desk, and, with a slight gesture of the hand, frigidly dismissed me. I left the house quite chopfallen.
"Man!" he exclaimed so loudly that Rosa, his housekeeper, imagined that something was going wrong again with the painting "Man! all the dollars you will ever earn would buy nothing more than her stone! If you want her, you will have to marry her." "Oh, don't look so chopfallen!" he went on, scornfully, when Paul blinked. "I mean marriage as she counts it.
The Abbe chanced one day to be in company with my husband, who was an old acquaintance of his, where many of the chopfallen deputies, like themselves, true lovers of their country, could not help declaring their indignation at its degraded state, and reprobating Bonaparte for rendering it so ridiculous in the face of Europe and the world.
I turned to Hawkins a chopfallen, cowering huddle of filth, standing upon two pearl-and-black legs and said: "Hawkins, when in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one man to sever those friendly bands which have connected him with another, and to assume a station apart, a decent respect for the opinions of the latter usually make it necessary to declare the cause of that separation.
"I'm staying here. Judge Pike has charge of all my property; he was the administrator, or something." Then seeing him chopfallen and aghast, she went on: "Of course you don't know! You don't know anything about me. You haven't even asked!" "You're going to live HERE?" he gasped. "Will you come to see me?" she laughed. "Will you come this afternoon?" He grew white. "You know I can't," he said.
A deaf and dumb man appears among the people here, making signs exactly as I have seen such do in England, and occasionally emitting a low unmodulated guttural drawl like them. 3rd May, 1868. Abraham, my messenger, came back, while we were at afternoon prayers, with good news for us, but what made Cropped-ears quite chopfallen was that Casembe was quite gracious!
The Abbe chanced one day to be in company with my husband, who was an old acquaintance of his, where many of the chopfallen deputies, like themselves, true lovers of their country, could not help declaring their indignation at its degraded state, and reprobating Bonaparte for rendering it so ridiculous in the face of Europe and the world.
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