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But you see, poor chap, it is awfully rough on him. He was making the running all through the winter. I could not help, feeling for him, so I chucked discretion " "For the first and only time in your life," put in Honoria gently. "And pray who and what is this disturber of domestic peace, Decies?" "Oh! you know the whole affair grows out of this engagement of my little sister Connie's.
He listened till a door slammed, and a sudden cessation of the tumult showed that some one, in sheer self-defense, had given her morphia, the only sedative that could have any real effect. Then he turned, and became aware of the presence of the two detectives. "Well," he said furiously, "who are you, and what the blazes do you want here? Get out, both of you, or I'll have you chucked out!"
That is, everything that had happened from the time I first left Nebraska to when I crawled to the daylight out of the snow after they had chucked me off the mountain-top. But everything that'd happened after that I'd clean forgotten. When Sarah said I was her husband, I wouldn't listen to her. Took all her family and the preacher that'd married us to convince me.
Drew sprang up, rolled his eyes in the general direction of Heaven, chucked his watch into his pocket, and demanded, "Has the deputation come yet, Sheldy?" "Yep, right outside," Sheldy answered, with equal liveliness; then, caressingly, to Babbitt, "Brother, if it would help, I'd love to go into the next room and pray with you while Dr.
Nine out of every ten will work the soul out of their ship-masters and officers, who, when they grow too old to go to sea, are chucked out into the gutter to die of poverty, unless they have laid by a nest-egg for their old age." "That is true enough," assented Guest, "and our esteemed employers are no better than the general run.
And I'm in a ten times worse fix. I've chucked up a steamer-berth at Genoa; I'm on a God-forsaken island where there's next to no sea-traffic; and I've run up debts with no prospect of repayment. It looks a bit as if jail's somewhere very close under my lee. And whom have we to thank for it? Why you, my sportsman, and no one else." "Great heavens, what do you mean?"
It was some time before he could get at the facts, and even then he could not fully appreciate the enormity of the disgrace that had overwhelmed Allie's instructress. "She chucked the dancin' teacher out of a winder?" he repeated, blankly. "What for?" "Goodness knows, Mr. Briskow! Something he said, or did I couldn't make out precisely.
"Furrst ye dig a pit," O'Flynn had said airily, stretched out before the fire after dinner. "Make it about four feet deep, and as long as ye'd like yer boards. When ye've done that I'll come and take a hand." The little job was not half finished when the light tailed. Two days more of soil-burning and shovelling saw it done. "Now ye sling a couple o' saplings acrost the durrt ye've chucked out.
You saved his life! You fished him out of the water." "After chucking him in. That's the trouble." "You chucked him in?" "By proxy." I explained. Ukridge, I regret to say, laughed in a way that must have been heard miles away in distant villages in Devonshire. "You devil!" he bellowed. "'Pon my Sam, old horse, to look at you one would never have thought you'd have had it in you."
When a man's been chucked, he's always asking what's trumps. He's not keen on the game; and the professional gambler takes advantage of his condition. Oh, there are a thousand ways out here of getting rid of your money when the girl's given you the go-by!" "To that I agree. When do we reach Prome?" "About six," understanding that the Warrington incident was closed.
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