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Updated: May 1, 2025
In my native town there is a shop-keeper who, when he is out of any article called for, tells his customers to wait a moment while he sends the boy over to the warehouse, the 'warehouse' being the larger and more prosperous establishment of a rival just around the corner, and the boy never returns empty-handed. I shall have to imitate my worthy friend; so pardon me just a moment."
For if I return empty-handed, upon my honour I'll not return at all." The Cardinal condescended to laugh. Mr. Wogan laughed too. He had good reason, for here was his Eminence in a kindly temper and the Chevalier warming out of his melancholy.
Buckley cast aside his hat, and laughed once aloud, like a happy school-boy at a frolic. Then, empty-handed, he sprang nimbly, and Garcia met him without default. So soon was the engagement ended that disappointment imposed upon the ranger's warlike ecstasy. Instead of dealing the traditional downward stroke, the Mexican lunged straight with his knife.
Then quoth Habundia, laughing: Now have I lost my friend and sister, for thou art gone, Birdalone. Take off the ring, sweetling, and get thee to thine hunting, for if thou come home empty-handed there will be flyting awaiting thee, or worse.
The boy was off like a deer and back again in a twinkling, empty-handed, but with an astounding bit of news. "The blacksmith says he ain't got no no iron three-quarters of an inch wide," he said, and the words were broken by his panting breaths. "But he says he's got plenty that's six-eighths. Shall I shall I git some o' that?" He waited the word, poised to go.
They almost babbled in their haste. When the other members of the investigating-team arrived, they had the look of men who walk on clouds. The military men were not happy. They were empty-handed. They could not even get statistical information from the children. They had no useful information. Fran's pocket instrument was cryptic, and held no promise as a weapon.
He engaged for them the ablest doctor, and the most efficient nurse, that money could command. Every day he sent messages of enquiry, and the messengers were never empty-handed. Sometimes it was a servant who came; and sometimes it was the coachman not Bounder, but his successor, who was quite a different man with the carriage.
Then seeing him, she asked him why he had tarried and what was come of that he had taken with him and why he returned empty-handed; whereupon he told her of the temptation which had befallen him, and she said, "Alhamdolillah praised be God-for delivering thee from seduction and intervening between thee and such calamity!"
"I don't know yet. I'm trying to split a difference of five and twenty kroner." Later I saw Nikolai going to the goldsmith's again. He seemed to do a great deal of business there. "I could have company across the fjeld now," I thought. "It's spring, and do I not always travel in the spring?" I began to pack my knapsack. Nikolai emerged once more, apparently as empty-handed as he had entered.
The stories of fabulous wealth, therefore, to be found in this new land appeared to be myths. It was to seek for treasure that the "Endraght" had been equipped by a number of merchants at Amsterdam, of whom my master, De Decker, made one, and we realized how disappointed they would be if we returned empty-handed.
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