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Couldn't resist, don't you know. She's working beautifully." "There's one thing about a Mercedes that I don't like and you don't find it in a Panhard. I've got a Panhard and " Dobson was saying with all the arrogance of a motor fiend, when Mrs. Scudaway ruthlessly and properly cut him off. "We know all about your Panhard, Dobby. Don't bother. Is Eleanor really ill, Mr. Windomshire?"
Bligh; and quite forgetting their somewhat formal politeness, they reeled and tugged, wrestling towards the window, each struggling to place her companion between her and the 'dobby, and both uniting in a direful peal of yells. This was the uproar which had startled Sir Bale from his dream, and was now startling the servants from theirs. The Mist on the Mountain
He glanced at the easel. "You been paintin'?" "Trying to." "'Bout a thousand dollars' wuth, I s'pose?" "Not ten cents' worth." "Sho, now! Is that so?" He got up and looked down at the canvas, bending above it like some genial giraffe. He straightened himself, smiling. "'Tis kind o' dobby," he admitted. "Mebbe you'll do better to-morrow." "Maybe. Was there a letter for me?"
'If ye gar me gie ye a look, 'twill gie ye the creepin's while ye live; so git ye doun, Tom; and with that the dobby lifts its neaf, and Tom saw there was a red light round horse and man, like the glow of a peat fire.
'Twas no livin' woman, for she couldn't rise that height above the water, as they well knew when they came to think; and knew it was a dobby they saw; and ye may be sure they didn't spare prayer and blessin', and went on their course straight before the wind; for neither would a-took the worth o' all the Mardykes to look sich a freetin' i' the face again.
Charles Parker, Sons & Co., Ltd., Dundee. The dobby itself, or the apparatus which lifts the leaves according to the requirements of the design, is fixed on the upper part of the frame-work, and is designed to control 12 leaves, that is, it operates 12 leaves, each of which lifts differently from the others. Charles Parker, Sons & Co.
Bobby frequents the 'Union Jack Club' of course; where he breakfasts on pale ale and devilled kidneys at three o'clock; where beardless young heroes of his own sort congregate, and make merry, and give each other dinners; where you may see half-a-dozen of young rakes of the fourth or fifth order lounging and smoking on the steps; where you behold Slapper's long-tailed leggy mare in the custody of a red-jacket until the Captain is primed for the Park with a glass of curacoa; and where you see Hobby, of the Highland Buffs, driving up with Dobby, of the Madras Fusiliers, in the great banging, swinging cab, which the latter hires from Rumble of Bond Street.
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