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"It was nothing but a little family affair," Bob reassured him. "Now, if you please, I'll borrow a hair-brush." In front of a mirror he tidied himself, settled his scarf with a deft jerk, then went out whistling. As it was nearly closing-time for the matinees, he strolled toward the Circuit Theater, full of a satisfying contentment with the world.
She told us that the young man was the proprietor of the place and that he would be a good friend, as would she, if we wouldn't 'do any kicking. About 8:30 the crowd began to come in earnest, and by 9:30, and from that on, men and girls drank, danced, and cut up until closing-time. "Mother Roberts, I can only liken our first night in that awful saloon and dance-hall to a bad nightmare.
You wish to be in the reading-room just as it will be on the afternoon of June 3, 1997? You wish to find yourself standing in that room, just past the swing-doors, this very minute, yes? And to stay there till closing-time? Am I right?" Soames nodded. The devil looked at his watch. "Ten past two," he said. "Closing-time in summer same then as now seven o'clock.
"And a man like Haas don't talk that way if he don't mean it." "Mind you, not a hundred dollars a year business with him. I haven't got the demands for silks." "That wash silk I'm telling you about though, Mrs. C., does up like a " "There's ma thumping with the poker on the upstairs floor. When it's closing-time, she begins to get restless. I I wish Selene would come in.
Rosenberg was a kind man or they would not have dared to speak so to him; "let's keep him till closing-time, and then one of us will see him home. He lives in London. He says so." Dickie had indeed murmured "words to this effect," as policemen call it when they are not quite sure what people really have said. "Ath you like," said Mr.
To think of her waiting for him like that for a fellow she'd never met before in Oxford Street at closing-time! How did she know that he wasn't a blackguard? Supposing it had been some other fellow? Ranny's muscles quivered as he thought of Violet's innocence and Violet's danger. All this was luminously clear to Ranny.
Even when I bounced off one of them to a lower step, he showed by no sign that the fact of my existence had reached his consciousness simply bore irresistibly downwards. The crowd was absolutely silent. At last I gained the entrance hall. 'It's closing-time for the reading room, said Mr Brindley. 'I'm glad I survived it, I said.
They talked it over till closing-time, but nobody seemed to know wot to do, and they stood outside in the bitter cold for over arf an hour still trying to make up their minds 'ow to get that hamper back. Fust one went off 'ome and then another, and at last, when there was on'y three or four of 'em left, Henery Walker, wot prided himself on 'is artfulness, 'ad an idea.
They were kindly of heart, but plain in speech, and their remarks on current events, persons and things, would have astonished and perhaps edified many a press man had he been among them, when on Saturday nights they "dropped in" at the one little public-house of the village, and argued politics and religion till closing-time.
There was no open grate in the bar to throw it behind. She was a poor liar, too, and was losing her head. "Give me hold a quarter of a minute," says the officer. She cannot refuse to give the pipe up. "Someone's had a whiff off this pipe since closing-time last night," he continues, touching the still warm bowl; for all this had passed very quickly.
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