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There was a gleam of quizzical humour in his eyes, and Stephen found himself asking, as so many others had asked before him, "Is the man serious, or is he making a joke? Does he wish me to receive this as a confidence or with pretended hilarity?" "Something about telling the crowd?" he answered. "Yes, I heard it." "We were having a tussle," continued Vetch lightly. "The fat's in the fire at last."
Dyce rose, knocked the ashes out of her pipe, and stood like a dusky image of an Ethiopian Bellona. "Drat your servigerous tongue! Now the fat's in the fire, to be sho!
Then to the drug store, the market, the shoeshop, and a dozen other places, to finally bring up where all the tourists do at the "Marshall Field's" of Chinatown, Sing Fat's, a truly marvelous place, where one can spend hours looking over the countless objects of interest.
Where there is the most fat, there is the best lean; where there is the greatest amount of muscle, without its share of fat, that part is accounted inferior, and is used for a different purpose; in fact, so far from fat's being a disease, it is a condition of muscle, necessary to its utility as food, a source of luxury to the rich, and of comfort to the poor, furnishing a nourishing and healthy diet for their families.
"Nor no man neither, I should 'ope!" said Albert's girl, and wriggling out of the encircling arm, she suddenly sprang up, put her hat straight, and forced her way towards the stage. "Now the fat's on!" observed the big man, with a foreboding sigh. "You may pull her 'ead off," Albert answered resignedly. "There ain't no 'oldin' of her." "Dangerous, very dangerous!" whispered the big man to Mr.
"Well, let me have some dinner or supper at once," I said, "and I will see what the sergeant wants." The officer rose as I entered the surgery, and, laying his helmet on the table, approached me with an air of secrecy and importance. "Well, sir," said he, "the fat's in the fire. I've arrested Mr. Draper, and I've got him locked up in the court-house. But I wish it had been someone else."
I reckoned sure nuff them times wuz come 'round agin, an here they've gone an kicked the pot over, an the fat's in the fire agin, bad's ever." "Darn em. Gosh darn em, I say," exclaimed Abner. "Didn't they git our idee what we wuz arter wen we stopped the courts? Did they think we wuz a foolin baout it? That's what I want some feller tew tell me. Did they think we wuz a foolin?"
Now some men, after being treated like that, would have sat down and wrote a letter to your father about your goings-on. I thought of it. Says I, 'It don't take more than a line from me, and the fat's in the fire. Mind, I don't say that I won't, but I ha'n't done it yet. And look here I'm a journeyman, as you know, and on the tramp for jobs.
"Oh!" cried Fleur, "help me, Father; you CAN help me, you know." Soames made a startled movement of negation. "I?" he said bitterly. "Help? I am the impediment the just cause and impediment isn't that the jargon? You have my blood in your veins." He rose. "Well, the fat's in the fire. If you persist in your wilfulness you'll have yourself to blame. Come! Don't be foolish, my child my only child!"
"Shure, the fat's in the fire now," chuckled Gerald to himself. As the whistle sounded Monkey sprang back through the window, landing in a heap almost at Rand's feet, but was up and off before Rand could get a hold on him, and sped after his companion, who had started off at the first alarm, in a race down the landing to their boat. "Hi! stop them, Gerald!" shouted Rand, dashing after them.
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