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"Take care! take care!" said the lady, with a warning finger uplifted. "You heard of the breaking of the Agra Bank?" "What of that?" "Every penny that I had in the world was in it." This was facer number two for the campaigner. He recovered himself more quickly from this one, however, and inflated his chest with even more than his usual pomposity.
We'll bring it off! And then we'll give such a facer to Boom, he'll think for fifty years. He's laying up for our London and African meeting. Let him. He can turn the whole paper on to us. He says the Business Organisations shares aren't worth fifty-two and we quote 'em at eighty-four. Well, here we are gettin' ready for him loading our gun." His pose was triumphant.
I should fritter away my time and my freedom without getting a quid pro quo: as it is, I am free and I give the swells every now and then such a facer as they get from no one else. Of course I don't expect to get on in a commercial sense at present, I do not go the right way to work for this; but I am going the right way to secure a lasting reputation and this is what I do care for.
'Half-past nine. Here was another facer for Slivers as it could not have been Pierre. 'Did he go to bed? 'Straight. 'And did not leave the house again? 'Of course not, retorted Miss Twexby, impatiently; 'do you think I'm a fool no one goes either in or out of this house without my knowing it.
"I am, though; and, what's more, I'm a Justice of the Peace and Deputy-Lieutenant for the county of Cornwall. Ever heard of Jack Rogers of Brynn?" Once more I had to answer "No, sir." "Then, excuse me, but where in thunder do you come from?" He halted and confronted me in the path. This was a facer, for the words "Justice of the Peace" had already set me quaking.
"Now, Richard, smoke your cigar, and think no more about all this till tomorrow." Viner flung himself into an easy-chair. "All right!" he said. "Don't bother! It's been a bit of a facer, but " He was astonished when he woke the next morning, much later than was his wont, to find that he had not dreamed about the events of the midnight.
Our own opinion is that they were both animated with a congenial spirit. Biddy was the very pink of pugnacity, and could throw in a body-blow or plant a facer with singular energy and science.
"A fellow might lie awake so long thinking about it that he'd go off into a sound sleep just before daylight, and sleep right through his early morning appointment," urged his loyal friend. "Better let me " "Oh, you go on to bed!" requested King irritably. "No gratitude to one who has brought all this to pass, eh?" "Heaps of it. But this evening has been rather a facer." "Not at all.
Steve was a funny fellow, and I was just sitting up in the blankets and laughing when a tornado hit camp. The way that Spot walked into those dogs and gave them what-for was hair-raising. Now how did he get loose? It's up to you. I haven't any theory. And how did he get across the Klondike River? That's another facer. And anyway, how did he know we had gone up the Yukon?
The League ought to have a word to say about the business. It'll be a facer for them." "Do you remember," asked Trevor, "saying that you thought it must be Rand-Brown who wrote those letters?" "Yes. Well?" "Well, Milton had an idea that it was Rand-Brown who ragged his study." "What made him think that?" Trevor related the Shoeblossom incident. Clowes became quite excited.
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