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"Never mind," said Oliver, after a while, "you've made the sacrifice for your country." "And wot if I get the face-ache?" "I'd get something that looked like a face before I'd talk of it," grinned Oliver. At the family dinner-table, Doggie being present, he announced his intentions. It was the duty of every able-bodied man to fight for the Empire. Had not half a million just been called for?
Gabriel Parsons; ‘I had driven home in an easterly wind, and caught a devil of a face-ache. Well; as Fanny—that’s Mrs. Parsons, you know—and this friend of hers, and I, and Frank Ross, were playing a rubber, I said, jokingly, that when I went to bed I should wrap my head in Fanny’s flannel petticoat. She instantly threw up her cards, and left the room.’ ‘Quite right!’ said Mr.
By whose advice it was that she was sent to school a week in advance of the opening she never knew. But there she was in the wilderness of a house, with only a dejected English teacher suffering from chronic face-ache, and another scholar, younger than herself, for company. The great madame was still absent at Bayeux, spending the vacation with her uncle the canon.
About a twelvemonth ago I'm sure its not far short of it I took to notice that the light in Mr. Hamish's chamber wasn't put out so soon as it was in the other rooms. So, one night, when I was half-crazy with that face-ache you remember my having it, Miss Constance? and knew I shouldn't get to sleep, if I lay down, I thought I'd just see how long he kept it in.
And now, at the last moment, at twelve o'clock of the day on which the dinner was to take place, came a note from the man upon whom she had most strongly counted to make the affair a success the brightest man on her list, and the one who was to take out Miss Grace Winthrop saying that he was laid up with a frightful cold and face-ache!
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