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"You miss me in the shop, Roody?" "You should just see once how that Ruby Grabenheiner sits at your machine! She does one-half your work not one-half so good." "I'll be back next week Monday." He patted her quickly. "No! No! A mammela's place is with her baby." "Roody, you make me laugh. I should sit at home now since we got a new mouth to feed? That would be a fine come-off!"
William, Miss Letty, little Nan, Guy, and Uncle Bushrod to bear the disgrace? During one minute Uncle Bushrod considered these things, and then he awoke to sudden determination and action. "Lawd! Lawd!" he moaned aloud, as he hobbled hastily toward the side door. "Sech a come-off after all dese here years of big doin's and fine doin's.
Binswanger, placing a hand with a loud pat on each knee. "So!" "Oh, papa!" "A fine come-off! A fine come-off! Eh, mamma? To Europe we go to take our daughter, and just so soon as we go no daughter we 'ain't got to take!" "Gott in Himmel! Gott in Himmel!" "Ray, haven't you got nothing to say to Irving and me Ray!" With a quick, fluid movement the younger sister slid close and her arms wound tight.
He tried to wiggle out by saying they had FORGOT to put on that tax, but they'd be sure to remember about it, next session of Congress, and then they'd put it on, but that was a poor lame come-off, and he knowed it. He said there warn't nothing foreign that warn't taxed but just that one, and so they couldn't be consistent without taxing it, and to be consistent was the first law of politics.
My hand was on Cleopatra's mane, and my off-foot clear of the stirrup; it would be a Christian act to save Foikestone from the father of a batin', and Priestley from that sterner father, namely, old father antic, the law. But imminent as the collision seemed, it did n't come-off.
Carver's indeed!" cried the woman, throwing an orange-peel from her with an air of disdain "a pretty come-off indeed! as if I did not know her name, and all about her, as well as you do." "Do you?" said Anne; "then I am sure you know one of the best women in the world."
Priest had purposely detailed strange men, coached to the point of blindness, in charge of the new addition, and when the two bunches threatened to mix, every horseman present except the boys seemed blind to the situation. Dell and Joel struggled in vain the cattle mixed. "Well, well," said Forrest, galloping up, "here's a nice come-off!
"You you can't fool me with that poor talk, papa. Everybody knows you get a bigger business each year. You can't fool me that way." Tears burst and flowed over her words, and her head burrowed deeper. Across her prostrate form Simon Binswanger nodded to his wife in rising perplexity. "Fine come-off, eh, Carrie?" "Miriam, ach, Miriam, come here to mamma."
The Honorable David rose slowly and snapped the cigar ash into the fire. "I'm right sorry, Hardwick, but this is one time when I reckon we'll have to have what you might call the spot cash. Promises don't go. You're too good a fighter to be allowed to get up merely because you've hollered 'enough. Come on into your telegraph-shop and let me hear you dictate that string of 'come-off' orders.
All the afternoon he toiled at the bank, and at dusk he walked home. No one was about the front of the house, and he went up to his room. He had bathed his face and hands, changed his suit, and was about to descend the stairs when his father-in-law came tottering along the corridor and paused at the open door of the room. "This is a pretty come-off," he scowled in at Mostyn.
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