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"I say, Priapus, what vile port!" he said. "Is this some of the vintage you crocked poor old Hinton with?" "Any port in a storm, Falstaff," said the Goblin, mildly. As Forbes was pouring out the coffee loud shouts of "Minters!" greeted the next arrival. This was Johnny Blair of Tennessee and Trinity, the only American among the Scorpions.
"Why, rather. Do you mean it? When do you want to come?" "To-morrow?" He laughed. "Good. I thought you meant in the autumn. ... To-morrow by all means, if you will. As a matter of fact we're frightfully short-handed in the office just now. Our typist has crocked, and we haven't another yet, so people have to type their own letters." "I can do the typing," said Gerda, composedly.
"Not much more. Might be three." "Yes. Three 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. It was only right at the end.
The passengers were cruel to each other and to the stewards; one day, going into the saloon by chance, she found Knollys leaning over a table looking white and sick, as he tried to polish spoons and forks. "Are you ill?" she asked him. "There's only two of us including me that haven't crocked up," he said; "people don't seem to think it's hot for us, or that we feel fed up at all. That Mrs.
The dog did not look at her, but crocked under him the leg that had been stiff like a ramrod and spread out another. The children did not speak. "Well!" For a moment words failed her; then she began, her hands spread out as though she was addressing a Suffragette meeting in Trafalgar Square. I'll " But her advance was stopped. Jeremy stopped it.
Our faces are much cut up by all the winds we have had, mine least of all; the others tell me they feel their noses more going with than against the wind. Evans' nose is almost as bad as his fingers. He is a good deal crocked up. Tuesday, February 6. Lunch 7900; Supper 7210. Temp. -15°. We've had a horrid day and not covered good mileage.
The fellow told him he would make it $1,500; and as that would get him out ahead, up she went, and he turned the marked card; but, as was the case with the crocked corner, the little mark was on another card.
"If you'd help me over to the house, I could manage all right. What a beastly nuisance! It wasn't your fault a bit. Only you tackled me when I was just trying to swerve, and my ankle was all twisted." Drummond came up, carrying Barry's blazer and sweater. "Hullo, Barry," he said, "what's up? You aren't crocked?" "Something gone wrong with my ankle. That my blazer? Thanks. Coming over to the house?
And why he could give the money's worse." "What do you mean?" He became shy. "I hadn't meant to tell you. It's not quite for a lady." For, like most men who are rather animal, he was intellectually a prude. "He says he can't ever marry, owing to his foot. It wouldn't be fair to posterity. His grandfather was crocked, his father too, and he's as bad.
"It's only the young chap," pointing to the bashful but gratified Brooks "as crocked him over the head a bit sharper than needful. Here, Esp," to the grinning Slumberleigh policeman, whom Charles now recognized, "tell the lad to bring up the 'orse and trap over the grass. We shall have a business to shift him as it is." "Is he a poacher?" asked Charles. "He doesn't look like it."
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