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I'll tell you what I'll do: I'll give you the horse and gig you're to take that girl of yours to Longford in to-morrow for her." "Hush, man, for G d's sake! If the servants hear you talking that way, I'm dished. If it once got abroad about my taking her off, I'd have the devil to pay before I got out of the country."
He was pacing up and down, his hands behind him. "There was a time in my life," he began at last "when I had er the regrettable habit of er using foul language, as your Uncle Jacko may have told you. Never filthy language! never that. I always swore like a gentleman. Chucked the d's and b's and g's about a bit too merry.
Then entered Warrington, the adjutant, and the servant was dismissed at once. "Bad business," said Warrington, looking thoroughly cheerful. "What now?" "One of Squadron D's men murdered in the bazaar this afternoon. Body's in the morgue in charge of the police. 'Nother man who was with him apparently missing. No explanation, and the p'lice say there aren't any clues."
It comes back to me in truth that I had been prepared for anything by his having said to me toward the end of our time at Lavinia D's and with characteristic authority his enjoyment of it coming from my character, I mean, quite as much as from his own that that lady was a very able woman, as shown by the Experiments upstairs.
His idea was a brilliant one, so much so that it required the co-operation of both families with the exception of the two girls, from whom it was kept a secret. But the two D's were told that the evening of the Fourth would be a red letter day for them and they looked forward eagerly to whatever it might be. About seven o'clock on Fourth of July evening, Mrs.
Her eyes grew soft again. Then an impulse came to her. She stretched out her hand for the telephone book, turned over the pages restlessly, looked through the "D's" until she found the name for which she was searching. For a long time she hesitated.
The two D's had brought the pretty skating costumes they had worn at the Berwick carnival, but as Bernice had been the queen that night, her white velvet gown was out of the question. Alicia, too, had no appropriate garb, so these two bought new dresses. The final result was four very becomingly attired girls who started merrily off on Saturday afternoon for the party at the rink.
I nailed my few books up in a drygoods box and left them in care of Professor Langworth's housekeeper, the former having gone away to Colorado for the summer. As for clothes, tramp-life had taught me the superfluity of more than a change of shirts and b.v.d's. Bonton looked me over. "You don't look strong enough ... the work is mighty hard." "I'm pretty wiry. Try me out, that is all I ask.
I suppose you won't deny that a unit of labor applies to different kinds of land will give very different results. Suppose that a unit of labor produces on A's land 4, on B's 3, on C's 2 and on D's 1. A's land is the most, and D's is the least, productive land in use in the community to which they belong. B's and C's represent intermediate grades.
Of your four d's, it's the dexterity that gives me the most dread." You're manoeuvred into a position where you're made to think you 'must. I've known chaps to marry on that basis.... It's weary waiting until Madame dies and Madonna steps into her place." "Meanwhile, safety in numbers."
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