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He could never risk Corker hearing of it, for he could not bear the chance of expulsion, so he'll lie low as far as Corker is concerned, take my word for it. He may hand you over to your father, but that, too, I doubt. He may give you a thrashing himself, which I fancy he will." "I don't mind that," said Jack. "I deserve something."
The young couple grasped his hands and Flanders spoke. "We can't do it, Mr. Bingle. It is out of the question. I'm sorry terribly sorry. You are a corker, sir. "For goodness' sake," began Mr. Bingle, imploringly. "We would jump at the chance, Mr. Bingle, to be married here, if it were not for one thing," went on Flanders, and then looked at Miss Fairweather.
Sam's regret vanished the instant he looked at her, and the greedy expression came into his sensual, confident young face. "She's a corker," said he. "But I'm content to be where I am." Susan's dress was not cut out in the neck, was simply of the collarless kind girls of her age wear. It revealed the smooth, voluptuous yet slender column of her throat.
"The child is at it again!" said one of the officers. "When are you going to write me another sonnet?" asked the nurse. "The last one was much admired." "The last one was rotten," said the boy. "I have written a real corker this time. Read it to yourself, and don't drop its pearls before these swine." "Well, you must be good, or I won't read it at all."
No servants, no porters, not a soul to disturb us. This is my house and it's a corker. I might be away for a year and" here there was the crackling of a match "I've only to use my night-key to find everything a man wants right to my hand." The answer I failed to catch. I was simply paralysed by terror. Should their way lay through the drawing-room!
"Now watch the kangaroo kick off," and as he kicked the ball the whole length of the field the old man simply sat still and said: "Gee whiz, but that was a corker. U-rah-u-rah!" and the only way to stop him was to feed him peanuts. From an enemy of football the old man was rapidly becoming its friend.
He laid a big junk of the oak across the chopping-block, swung the axe, and cleft the stick with a single blow that sent the halves flying in either direction. "That was a good stroke a corker," exclaimed a youth who had entered the yard and come up quietly behind him. John Ellison turned quickly. "Hello, Henry," he said. "Where'd you come from?" "Just had a swim," replied Henry Burns.
Lying flat, chin on hand, he watched a regiment storm and take a thick abattis felled trees filled with sharpshooters masking a hastily thrown up earthwork. The regiment was reserving its fire and losing heavily. An elderly man led it, riding a large old steady horse. "That's Ex-Governor Smith," said the regiment in the wood. "That's Extra Billy! He's a corker!
I enjoy a good story as well as you do, but I cannot afford to read novels, now, and so I refuse to be tempted into looking into any of them." "This is a hummer," declared Bart, enthusiastically. "It is full of mystery and murder and all that. Beagle Ben, the detective, is a corker! That fellow can look a man over and tell what he had for dinner by the expression around the corners of his mouth.
"Bli' me, you're a corker!" said Mr. Lowe. Back in Newark, New Jersey, Jackson Wylie, Sr., was growing impatient. In spite of his son's weekly reports he had begun to fret at the indefinite nature of results up to date. This dissatisfaction it was that had induced him to cable his invitation to the Royal Commission to visit the Atlantic plant. Mr.
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