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Thus Erb, while remarking that, for some, Luther's dictum represents the extreme maximum, adds that others can go far beyond that amount with impunity, and he considers that such variations are congenital.
Forty cents I have, fifty, sixty, seventy, seventy-five, eighty, eighty, eighty cents I'm bid; I'm bid eighty cents make it ninety ninety I'm bid, make it a dollar ninety, ninety all done at ninety? Guess we'll let Jonas Erb have them at ninety cents a piece, and real bargains they are!" "Here's where I bid," said Phœbe, her cheeks rosy from excitement.
Pictures of another world, another solar system, began to grow more clear as the space man became more at home in the new way of communication. He was one of a race who had come to Erb from beyond the stars and discovered it a world without human life: So they had established colonies and built great cities far different from Memphir and had lived in peace for centuries of their own time.
"What yarn was that?" "I heard it from the Brigadier four times, to be exact. Five men off duty were sitting in a dug-out playing poker. A gentleman named 'Erb had just gone to the limit on his hand, when a rifle-grenade came into the dug-out from somewhere and did him in. While they were waiting for the stretcher-bearers, one of the other players picked up 'Erb's hand and examined it.
There was a savoury smell of beefsteak in the room and Philip's eyes turned to the range. "I was just going to dish up this minute," said the woman. "Fire away," said Philip. "I'll just have a look at the son and heir and then I'll take myself off." Husband and wife laughed at Philip's expression, and 'Erb getting up went over with Philip to the cradle. He looked at his baby proudly.
"Now then," said Mrs. Partington cheerfully, "time for bed." Her husband winked at her gravely, which was his nearest approach to hilarity. He was a quiet man at all times. The Major said nothing. "There! there's 'Erb awake again," said the mother, as a wail rose up the staircase. "I'll be up again presently." And she vanished once more. Two of the children were awake after all.
The waves swelled up along the breakwater and were whipped with broken foam. Over the white sky flew tattered streamers of grey cloud. Andreas felt quite relieved to hear Doctor Erb coming down the stairs; he got up and lit the gas. "Mind if I smoke in here?" asked Doctor Erb, lighting a cigarette before Andreas had time to answer. "You don't smoke, do you?
Come from abroad, they do. My brother Joe's wife's sister 'ad one of 'em. Red-'aired gel she was. Married a feller down at the Docks. She 'ad one of 'em. Parrots they're called." He bent down for a closer inspection, and inserted a finger through the railings. Erb abandoned his customary taciturnity and spoke words of warning. "Tike care 'e don't sting yer, 'Enry!" Henry seemed wounded.
He agrees with the experienced Erb that a large number of completely chaste women of high character, and possessing distinguished qualities of mind and heart, are more or less disordered through their sexual abstinence; this is specially often the case with women married to impotent men, though it is frequently not until they approach the age of thirty, Nyström remarks, that women definitely realize their sexual needs.
He saw that it had given them pleasure that he shared their meal, and they saw that he had thoroughly enjoyed it. "Well, good-bye, sir," said 'Erb, "and I 'ope we shall 'ave as nice a doctor next time the missus disgraces 'erself." "Go on with you, 'Erb," she retorted. "'Ow d'you know there's going to be a next time?" The three weeks which the appointment lasted drew to an end.
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