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I couldn't help my grandfather if I wanted to." "You have what is left of three hundred pounds," said Lala Roy. "If I said that last night," replied Joe, "I must have been drunker than I thought. You old fool! the flimsies were duffers. Where do you think I could raise three hundred pounds? No, no I'm sorry for the old man, but I can't help him. I'm going to see him again in a day or two.
Still, I should think a nice little lady like you might find lots nicer people to talk to than an old duffer like me." "Oh, but I like old duffers," exclaimed Pollyanna quickly; "that is, I like the OLD part, and I don't know what a duffer is, so I can't dislike that. Besides, if you are a duffer, I reckon I like duffers.
"The people down at Ikogimeut don't need it like us. We're white duffers, and can't get fish through the ice. You sell some of it to us." But Nicholas shook his head and shuffled along on his snow-shoes, beckoning the dog-driver to follow. "Or trade some fur fur tay," suggested O'Flynn. "Or for sugar," said Mac. "Or for tobacco," tempted the Colonel.
Boys didn't give Mr Parrett credit for all the self-denial he really underwent; for he had a way of seeming to enjoy even the drudgery of his self-imposed work, and it rarely occurred even to the most hopeless of "duffers" to imagine that all the trouble spent over him was anything but a pleasure to the master who spent it.
Almost before I could turn myself, there came a horse of a devil, bearing a physician and an apothecary, whom he cast down amongst the pedlars and the duffers, for selling bad, rotten ware; but they beginning to fume at being placed in such low company, one of the devils said, "stay, stay! you do deserve a different place," and cast them down amongst the conquerors and the murderers.
This no-kyack business is going to puzzle plenty of those boys who can do good, ordinary packing." "It's near noon," Thorne was saying; "we haven't time for another of those duffers. I'll just call up your partner, Ware, and we'll knock off for dinner." The partner did as well, or even a little better, for the watch credited him with ten and one-half minutes, whereupon he chaffed Ware hugely.
The old duffers on the Hanging Committee wouldn't understand it " And though Lightmark maintained his intention in the face of this criticism, the picture was never submitted to the hangers. Rainham brought a wealthy American ship-owner to see it, and when the committee sat in judgment, the work was already on the high seas on its way to New York.
I got to know him at Atlantic City, where I had a Board Walk pitch one season. Queer? That's no word for it! Shy and lonesome he was; but after you got to know him, one of the brightest, jolliest old duffers. Our first talk was out on the end of one of those long piers, by moonlight. "After that it was a regular thing. We'd walk up and down like two kids, telling each other all about ourselves.
The mud received her softly, and clung to her with affection; and for a moment, face downward among the reeds, Norah clawed for support, like a crab suddenly beached. Then, somehow, she scrambled to a sitting position, up to her waist in mud and water and rocked with laughter. A little way off, the boat swayed gently on the ruffled surface of the water. "Well of all the duffers!" Norah said.
"You think so, do you?" Julian remarked pensively. "Who wouldn't? I hate espionage. So does every Englishman. That's why we are such duffers at the game, I suppose." Julian watched his friend with a slight frown. "How in thunder did you get mixed up with this affair, Furley?" he asked quietly. Furley's bewilderment was too natural to be assumed.
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