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"Good-bye, adorable darling!" said Betts, laughing through tears. "Good-bye, dearest," whispered Anna, holding her close. "Good-bye, my own girl!" The last kiss was for Mrs. Carroll, and Susan knew of whom the mother was thinking as the first bride ran down the path. "Well, aren't they all darlings?" said young Mrs. Oliver, in the train. "Corkers!" agreed the groom.
And there wasn't any chance of findin' the kid to prove if Kelly had it right or not. "But the Prof. he was certainly a great boy for puttin' up three-sheets about his own two kids; anybody that would listen friend or stranger made no difference to him. He starred 'em to anybody, you understan' what corkers they was, and all like that.
"I used to even before Maggie got into the game. Begun goin' when I was 'leven. At first I was strong for this Wild West stuff, but no more. Give me a good crook drama with a big punch in every reel. They're showin' some corkers lately. I've seen 'em about all. That's how I come to get wise to this plot of Jake Zosco's. Come on! Got your wrist irons ready for him?"
The Limerick folks are said to be the most Catholic people in Ireland. They are more loyal than the Corkers. Why is this? The more Catholic, the more disloyal, is the general experience. Nobody whose opinion is worth anything will deny this, and however much you may wish to dissociate religion from politics, you cannot blink this fact.
For the other clause of the indictment lack of enterprise the Westporters are no worse and no better than their neighbours. The Corkers make nothing of their harbour, spending most of their time in talking politics and cursing England. Commercial men speak of the difficulty of doing business at Cork, which does not keep its appointments, is slippery, and requires much spirituous lubrication.
After a silence, in which they were talking of themselves, he burst out: "But I don't see how Paris could help 'preciating you. I'll bet you're one of the best artists they ever saw.... The way you made up a picture in your mind about that juggler!" "Nope. Sorry. Can't paint at all." "Ah, stuff!" with a rudeness quite masterful. "I'll bet your pictures are corkers." "Um."
Look at the votes he's rolling up. Say, we're corkers and never knew it! A few classes from the respectable part of the Quad, where they do Political Science, came drifting along then with votes for Castleton, and it went Castleton for awhile; then a lull during class, followed by a scattering vote for Boggs. It was about an even thing during eleven-thirty break, with Castleton still ahead.
'Now, says I, 'you had better lay where you be and let me go, for I am proper tired; I blow like a horse that's got the heaves; and besides, says I, 'I guess you had better wash your face, for I am most a feared you hurt yourself. That riled him properly; I meant that it should; so he ups and at me awful spiteful like a bull; then I lets him have it, right, left, right, jist three corkers, beginning with the right hand, shifting to the left, and then with the right hand agin.
That ryled him properly; I meant that it should; so he ups and at me awful spiteful like a bull; then I lets him have it, right, left, right, jist three corkers, beginning with the right hand, shifting to the left, and then with the right hand agin.
Oh, she's no baby, is Nance, but she looks like one in this rig with her short hair or rather, like a school-girl; which makes the stunts she does in mimicking the corkers of the profession all the more surprising. "We're just a little party," said Mrs. Paul Gates, coming into the bedroom where I was taking of my wraps. "And I'm so glad you could come, for my principal guest, Mr.
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