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I got about half a pint down my neck just then. We sha'n't get a game to-day, of anything like it. As you're crocked, I'm not sure that I care much. You've been sweating for years to get the match on, and it would be rather rot playing it without you." "I don't know that so much. I wish we could play, because I'm certain, with you and Smith, we'd walk into them.
She is not a really bad machine, but plays tricks." "Did you see what she did this time?" "Yes, sir. I was looking at her from the end hangar. I was some distance away, but I happened to have my eye on her as she crocked." "Did she side-slip?" "That is just what she did do." Parks glanced at Colonel Marker inquisitively. What was the colonel driving at?
Then Mr. Manley said in a musing tone: "Do you suppose that Colonel Grey finds her simple?" "What? You don't think that there is really anything serious between them?" said Mr. Flexen quickly. "No, not really serious at any rate, on Colonel Grey's part. You can hardly expect a man, recovering very slowly from three bad wounds and still crocked up, to fall in love, can you?
I don't know of him. He wasn't in the team last year." "I know the chap. He played wing three for them at footer against us this year on their ground. He was crocked when they came here. He's a pretty useful chap all round, I believe. Plays racquets for them too." "Well, my friend said he had one very dangerous ball, of the Bosanquet type. Looks as if it were going away, and comes in instead."
I was going to take the money to him this afternoon, only I got crocked, so I couldn't move. I wanted to get hold of you to ask you to take it for me it's too late now!" Mike's face fell. "Oh, hang it!" he said, "I'm awfully sorry. I'd no idea it was anything like that what a fool I was!
The old man stopped and rubbed his hands together as if he were washing them of the whole matter. The dusk of evening had fallen and crocked the white marble and blurred the lettered legends around us. The mossy stones now reminded me only of the innumerable host of the dead. Softly the notes of a song sparrow scattered down into the silence that followed the strange story.
Why, Willis, who fancies himself as a chauffeur, undertakes to do the driving; and naturally, being an absolute rotter, goes and smashes up the whole concern just outside St Albans. The first thing I knew of it was when I got to Lord's at half past ten, and found a wire waiting for me to say that they were all three of them crocked, and couldn't possibly play.
"Not much more. Might be three." "Yes. Three if one didn't hurry." "Oh, yes, if one didn't hurry." Another silence. "Beastly day," said Adair. "Rotten." Silence again. "I say," said Mike, scowling at his toes, "awfully sorry about your wrist." "Oh, that's all right. It was my fault." "Does it hurt?" "Oh, no, rather not, thanks." "I'd no idea you'd crocked yourself." "Oh, no, that's all right.
I'm not grasping. 'How about Reade? 'The entire Second scrum collapsed on top of Reade. When we dug him out his ankle was crocked. Mainspring gone, probably. Then they gathered up the pieces and took them gently away. I don't know how it all ended. Just then Walkinshaw burst into the room. He had a large bruise over one eye, his arm was in a sling, and he limped.
They went out of the House immediately afterwards and shook hands with each other, and Chamberlain said 'Arthur, we're the Opposition! And so they were. Poor Balfour was awfully lonely after Chamberlain crocked up. Not a soul on his own side that was fit to talk to! It was easy enough for F. E. Robinson to make a name in a crowd like that. And they loathe him, too. He's such a bounder!
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