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Miriam can't do three turns. If Pauer isn't here in five minutes, the fat's in the fire. 'Well, said the falsetto voice, 'why don't you' the hoarse basso carried on the phrase 'send somebody else? 'Who am I to send? asked the man in view. 'I'd give five bob, he added, 'to get him here. 'Tell me where he is, said Paul, 'and I'll get him for half the money, if I have to carry him.
"I gave her my promise that I'd take her out there, and we'd have gone off on Wednesday quietly enough, if you hadn't come and nosed the whole thing out with your infernal dog. The fat's in the fire! There's no reason why I should take her now. I'll come back to her a rich man, or not at all." "And in the meantime?" I slipped in. He turned to me, in an ingratiating way.
"What the foul fiend is the meaning of all this?" in the same breath inquired the father and son. Cap put her thumb on the side of her nose, and, whirling her four fingers, replied: "It means, your worships' excellencies, that you can't come it! it's no go! this chicken won't fight It means that the fat's in the fire, and the cat's out of the bag!
"Get breakfast!" said the old fellow to Morgan, and he wagged his head and sighed as he looked out of the window. "Poor Helen poor soul! There'll be a row. I knew there would: and begad all the fat's in the fire."
Once into the street he walked quickly into Sum Fat's, and told the Celestial that he had taken a billet at 'thirty bob' a week on a newspaper. 'Wha' paper? inquired Sum Fat, who was squeezing a nasty-looking adipocerous mass into fish-balls for his boarders. 'The Trumpet-Call. 'That's a lotten lag, if you li. It close on banklupt this long time. Denison assented cheerfully.
"We've loaned his hood to the Wallace Collection. Go on." "Well, that all sounds very nice and easy, doesn't it? Then, to put the lid on, my chauffeur breaks his arm yesterday afternoon." "And the uncle's due when?" "Slept at Laipnik last night. I was to have lunched with them to-day. Oh, the fat's in the fire all right this time. I may expect them any time after three." I reflected a moment.
"Well, it's done at last. I found a wire from the club waiting for me here. The Queen has sent for Broadstone, and the fat's all in the fire." The two fell into an excited discussion of the situation. The two rival heroes of the electoral six weeks on the Liberal side had been, of course, Ferrier and Lord Philip.
As she passed out of the door she said smugly to her companion "I don't see anything so wonderful here." I was standing right there and said I: "Madame, if you have been through Sing Fat's and have failed, to see anything wonderful then you should go home and give yourself the Benet test which is used to test the intelligence of children."
To avoid him will be to confess that you suspect him." "But his name isn't on the passenger list. If I hadn't happened to see him as he came on board, I'd probably not have known it at all." "Perhaps he saw you at the same time." "Then the fat's in the fire," I said.
On the morning of the sports he arrayed himself in one of the white creations of G. Lung Fat's, giving special attention to the accessories of his toilet. Then, with marked indifference to the games, which were the all-absorbing topic of the day, he had his chair moved to the far side of the deck, and sat there in superior isolation during the whole morning.
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