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Chump, who took it, with a scared look at him: "Why, if ye haven't got a tear in your eye, Pole?" "Nonsense, nonsense," quoth he, bowing another arm to Adela. "Papa, I'm not to be winked at," said she, accepting convoy; and there was some laughter, all about nothing, as they went in to dinner. The ladies were studiously forbearing in their treatment of Mrs. Chump.
It is more probable that he believed Lieutenant Scott to be the expert in charge of the boat and sought to kill or disable him." "See where the chump wiped his hands on waste," Jimmie cried. Ned now made a still closer inspection of the room and was rewarded for his thoroughness by discovering a tiny pool of the rubber composition on the floor, close to the giant iron frame of the big dynamo.
Jackson," he said, as if he hoped that Mike might be satisfied with a compromise. "One? What's the good of that, Edmund, you chump? I can't go over to school in one boot." Edmund turned this over in his mind, and then said, "No, sir," as much as to say, "I may have lost a boot, but, thank goodness, I can still understand sound reasoning." "Well, what am I to do? Where is the other boot?"
"It's just a loft where they store stuff." He started to ride into the flood. "Come on back here, yuh chump!" Park roared. "Get off and loosen the cinch before yuh go in there, or yuh won't get far. Sunfish'll need room to breathe, once he gets to bucking that current. He's a good water horse, just give him his head and don't get rattled and interfere with him.
"And several of us got on more tacks than one," rejoined Arthur. "I did, at any rate." "It just shows you that there is little use in trying to play tricks on Jack Sheldon," said Billy, "and I won't be such a chump again." "Some one else thinks the same way," said Jack quietly to Arthur. "What do you mean by that, Jack?" the other boy asked.
She kind of looks at me as if I were more to be pitied than censured, but as if she thought I really ought to do something about it. Of course, she's a devilish brainy girl, and I'm a fearful chump. Makes it kind of hopeless, what?" George, in his new-born happiness, found a pleasure in encouraging a less lucky mortal. "Not a bit. What you ought to do is to " "Yes?" said Reggie eagerly.
Oh, they were sweet and buttery enough to us, I give in, but that was because they thought we was goin' to hire their Dump or Chump, or whatever 'twas. I'll bet they could be hard as nails to anybody they had under their thumbs.
He felt like a comedian trying to be funny with the heart gone out of him. But he knew she expected no less. He must remain just Monte or he would only frighten her the more. No matter if his heart pounded until he could not catch his breath, he must play the care-free chump of a compagnon de voyage. That was all she had married all she wanted. She glanced at his arm in its black sling.
I knew them before they became unintelligible, though they always had a turn for it. To dress well, to be refined, to marry well I understand all that perfectly; but who could understand them? Not they themselves, I am certain! And now penniless! and not only that, but lawyers! You know that Mrs. Chump has commenced an action? no? Oh, yes! but I shall have to tell you the whole story."
She had danced with Conroy twice already he ought to be more considerate than to bring the girl into notice that way a chump like Charlie Conroy, what would he understand of such a nature as Johnnie Consadine's? Before he fully realized his own intentions, he had paused in front of the two and was speaking. "I think Miss Johnnie promised me a dance this evening.
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