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This accomplishment, with some other learning gained in those strenuous and bracing times, had justified him in answering a Times advertisement for a sober, active, and intelligent young man, possessing the requisite knowledge of London "Cripps!" said W. Keyse, "as if I couldn't pick my way about the Bally Old Dustbin blindfolded!" to act in the capacity of chauffeur to a West End medical practitioner.
"Damn bad taste, I call it, in a newcomer like Cripps," the sailor had remarked later to the soldier. "But if a man isn't a gentleman what can you expect?" And with that, as among local persons of quality, the matter finally dropped. Mrs. Doubleday and Butcher Cleave, to give an example from a lower social level, agreed, across the former's counter in the village shop, that
There was something about Cripps's manner that made him feel very uncomfortable. "Oh, Cripps," he presently began, in as off-hand a manner as he could assume under the depressing circumstances "Oh, Cripps, about that rod, by the way. I hope you didn't mind my sending it back. Mr Cripps said nothing, but began polishing up a pewter pot with a napkin.
That man who wanted to let us his house in Copperhead no, Leatherhead funny I should forget THAT awful name he was named Solomon Solomon Cripps... Why, what is it?" Miss Morley's smile and the mischievous twinkle had vanished. She looked startled, and even frightened, it seemed to me. "What is it, Frances?" repeated Hephzy, anxiously. "Nothing nothing. Solomon what was it? Solomon Cripps.
Wilfred Cripps, C.B., the head of a family that has been seated at Cirencester for many hundreds of years, has an interesting private collection of Roman antiquities which have been found in the neighbourhood from time to time. He has quite recently discovered the remnants of the Basilica or Roman law-courts.
Cripps, for example, hurried to offer himself as pall-bearer a request the more readily disposed of that there was no pall. While Archdeacon Verity, to cite a second example and from a higher social level, supported by his elder son Pontifex domestic chaplain to the Bishop of Harchester insisted on sharing with Canon Horniblow the melancholy honour of reading the burial service.
"Oh, yes, so you may," said the wretched Loman, willing to promise anything in his eagerness. Finally it was settled. Cripps was to wait three months longer; and Loman, although knowing perfectly well that there was absolutely less chance then of having the money than there had been now, felt a weight temporarily taken off his mind, and was all gratitude.
If we weren't leather-headed and deserving of leather medals we should not be hunting houses at all. We should have left Little Frank and her affairs in a lawyer's hands and be enjoying ourselves as we intended. Leatherhead for the leather-heads; it's another dispensation of Providence." "Ash Dump" "Clump," I mean was owned by a person named Cripps, Solomon Cripps. Mr.
He struck an indomitable attitude and thundered: "So 'elp me Jiminy Cripps, I never will!" She knew that the oath was irrevocable, and with a faint moan, turned to the great boulder that was behind her, and clung to its hard red bosom as if it had been a mother's. She moaned to him as her thin figure flattened itself against the stone, to let her go away and die somewhere.
The landlord of the Cockchafer, as the reader may have gathered, had changed his tone pretty considerably the last few days, and Loman found it out now. "Well?" said he, gloomily, as the boy entered. "Well?" said Loman, not knowing how to begin. "I suppose you've got my money?" said Cripps. "No, Cripps, I haven't," said the boy.
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