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"I don't think you will, either," said Ham, emphatically. "You're going away to boarding-school. Miranda, is there any reason why Dabney can't have the south-west room, upstairs, with the bay-window?" That room had been Samantha's choice, and she looked at Dab reproachfully, but Miranda replied: "No, indeed; not if you wish him to have it."
There were three kinds of corn-cake on the table, but the boys were thinking of something more important; and Dab hardly received his first cup of tea before he remarked, "We're all going a-fishing to-morrow, Mrs. Myers; but we may get home in time for supper. Can you spare Dick?" "What, on Saturday? The very day I need him most? Three loads of wood'll be over from the farm to-night."
"Upon my word he seems to be very cool," she said; and the servant, his gaze fixed on a respectful point just above his mistress's head, reflected on the extreme inapplicability of the adjective to anything so warm as the gentleman at the door. "Shall I see him for you, mother?" volunteered Tussie briskly. "You?" said his mother surprised. "I'm rather a dab at German, you know.
Torrens was a great musician." "How does Nurse Bailey know?" "He was playing to her quite beautiful in the drawing-room just before her young ladyship came in. And then Mrs. Bailey went upstairs to write a letter because there was plenty of time before the post." "Can't say I believe Nurse Bailey's much of a dab at music." Mr.
The breakfast was simple yet fairly substantial more coffee, a half grape-fruit, two soft-boiled eggs made ready in a glass with a dab of butter and piping hot, and a sliver of bacon, not over-cooked, that he knew was of his own raising and curing. By this time the sunshine was pouring in through the screening and across the bed.
At the town of Nankiwoc the hotel was not all it might have been. Evelyn L'Ewysse announced that she was "good and sick of eating a vaudeville dinner with the grub acts stuck around your plate in a lot of birds' bath-tubs little mess of turnips and a dab of spinach and a fried cockroach. And when it comes to sleeping another night on a bed like a gridiron, no thank you!
These latter, in the shape of Dab Kinzer and the lower joint of a stout fishing-rod, had been bounding along up the road from the landing, at a tremendous rate, for nearly half a minute. A boy of fifteen assailing a full-grown ruffian? Why not?
He would not really have hurt a youngster like Pee-wee but he would have made him look and feel ridiculous. But a glance at Pee-wee's gummy stencil brush reminded Mr. Gamely that discretion was the better part of valor. A dexterous dab or two of that would have put an end to all his glory. Pee-wee left no doubt about this. "This summer-house is on private land," he said, "and I'm the boss of it.
Spoffrel fended him off with the roller and got one good dab inter his eyes that blinded him, and then Spoffrel sorter skirmished him over to the press, a plain lever just like ours, whar the locked-up form of the inside was still a-lyin'! Then, quick as lightnin', Spoffrel tilts him over agin it, and HE throws out his hand and ketches hold o' the form to steady himself, when Spoffrel just runs the form and the hand under the press and down with the lever!
An impalpable red dust sifts through and into everything. When a man descends at Voi for dinner he finds his fellow-travellers have changed complexion. The pale clerk from indoor Mombasa has put on a fine healthy sunburn; and the company in general present a rich out-of-doors bloom. A chance dab with a white napkin comes away like fresh paint, however.
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