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"'Baccy? I asks agin knowin' he 'ated it. "'Phaw, he says, 'your filthy smoke what need is there of it? "'Wimmen! I says, thinkin' that would be a clincher fer him. "'Yes, he shouts; 'beautiful nymphs, spirits as immortal as myself! "'I don't see 'em! says I. "'They are in the water, says he; 'beautiful water nymphs and wood nymphs lurks there among the trees!
"Almost from the first moment I saw this collection." Rand explained the reasoning which had led him to suspect Walters. "The real clincher, to my mind, was the fact that he knew this collection almost as well as Lane Fleming did, and wouldn't be likely to be deceived by these substitutions any more than Fleming would. Yet he said nothing to anybody; neither to Mrs. Fleming, nor Goode, nor myself.
But as I told my old friend, I was not running an excursion, and I have invited the young man to go as my guest." "And he's paying us nearly three thousand dollars to do what the Count was willing to pay for," exclaimed Norman, as a clincher. "What have you got to say to that?" he added almost defiantly, addressing his mother. "But he won't have to go up in a flying machine," meekly argued Mrs.
Why," he added, as a final clincher, "he takes care of all my money, really, he does." Miss Phipps laughed. "And that I suppose is enough to keep one man busy," she observed. Galusha was too much in earnest to notice the sarcasm. "I'm sure it must be," he said. "I never could do it myself." "I can believe that without any trouble. Now what is your idea, Mr.
And" Speed-the-Plough cocked his eye "it doan't eat up half the victuals, your pipe doan't." Here the honest yeoman gesticulated his keen sense of a clincher, which the tinker acknowledged; and having, so to speak, sealed up the subject by saying the best thing that could be said, the two smoked for some time in silence to the drip and patter of the shower.
Captain Turner, on being urged to provide some palatable food and drink, declared with an oath that he did not select the provisions of fill the water; that this was done by others who knew what they were about; that every thing on board was good enough for us, and if we did not like it we might starve and BE HANGED! This was a clincher it ended the argument.
"But who should know of it?" said Mr. Lane. "It is most unlikely that he should mention it to anyone; and you say, moreover, that his own companion knew nothing of it." "But," cried Jack, and thought this point was a clincher, "he cabled home to you about it, and word of it got abroad, perhaps, from the telegraph office." Mr. Lane shook his head.
At this hour the sea was dark and quiet, the birds being still asleep upon their rocky perches, and the only noise was the flapping of the sails, and the water purring softly with little treble sounds among the clincher chains and against the sides of the boat. David was a passenger on the mail-boat.
Gone was the five-franc note which I had intrusted to a sandwich vender on the railroad platform in the vain hope that he would come back with the change. After that clincher there was no doubt about it we were in La Belle France all right, all right! Everything testified to the change.
I don't just recollect where it occurred, either, at the moment, but we'll have to look it up, because, as a case of precedent, it'll be a clincher for Sarah." He chuckled for a full hour over the thought before he forgot it. The boy, however, upon whom Sarah's disapproval had made a more lasting impression, recalled it to him later. Allison joined them Monday morning at daybreak.
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