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Updated: May 11, 2025
"Well, perhaps. He and Hortense have been 'talking business'; I know that. Oh and why do you think she said he must go to New York? To make a better deal for the fire-eater's phosphates than his fuddling old trustee here was going to close with. Charley said that could be arranged by telegram. But she made him go himself! She's extraordinary.
Beverly looked at Hortense again. "And her fire-eater's fortune is about double what it would have been. I don't see how she's going to square herself with Charley." "She'll wait till that's necessary. It isn't necessary to-day." We had to drop our subject here, for the owner of the Hermana approached us with the amiable purpose, I found, of making himself civil for a while to me.
I have indeed been a bad son, and the Talking-Cricket was right when he said: 'Disobedient boys never come to any good in the world. I have found it to be true, for many misfortunes have happened to me. Even yesterday in Fire-Eater's house I ran the risk Oh! it makes me shudder only to think of it!" "Well, then," said the Fox, "you are quite decided to go home?
The expression of the fire-eater's face was extremely characteristic; his arm was flung out with a gesture that perfectly matched. The group of listeners was carefully composed and most 'naturally'; that is the only word that would come to me. I glanced almost timidly at Dora. She was regarding it with a deep vertical line between her handsome brows.
One morning, when the boys were in the washroom, under the charge of the senior teacher, Charlie, with what precise provocation I could never ascertain, drew back his basin of water and threw it full into the teacher's face. Here was a case. We were about to have an explosion. Evidently the young fire-eater's blood was up.
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