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Our blooming old republic is merely the quickest process of endless replacing yet discovered, and you take my tip, and back the replacers! That's where Miss Rieppe, for all her Kings Port traditions, shows sense." I turned square on him. "Then she has broken it?" "Broken what?" "Her engagement to John Mayrant. You mean to say that you didn't ?" "See here, old man. Seriously. The fire-eater?"
The latter, talking about the time when he, too, had been a fire-eater, had mentioned an act where a performer leaped through blazing hoops, and Joe determined to use the idea, varying it to suit his purpose. That it was effective was evidenced by the long-continued applause.
Happily the theoretical fire-eater had faith superior to his own arguments; faith in a woman's insight as finer than his own; and he is let off with a gratified rebuke for preternatural submissiveness and for arraying her in pontifical garments of authority which hang loose upon so small a figure.
"I never did see such a fire-eater." He turned to his companions. "I told you how it would be. We can't prove a thing against the kid except that he was lookin' for a fight an' got it. He played the hand that was dealt him an' he played it good. I reckon we'll have to let him go this time, boys." "We'll make a mistake if we do," differed Sanders.
The one's a fire-eater, with whom you can't argue. The other's a child a babe whom the Government proposes to murder before he has begun to live. Sir Henry looked at the speaker, who had been violently flushed a minute earlier, and was now as pale as himself, and then at the sketch of Desmond, just behind the Squire. His eyes dropped; the hurry in his blood subsided. 'Well, good-bye, Mannering.
In a few minutes The Don is as fit as ever, and slapping Shock on the back says pleasantly, "Come, along, old fire-eater. We've got to win this game yet," and Shock goes off with him, still looking much ashamed. McGill kicks from the twenty-five line, but before the scrimmage that follows is over time is called, with an even score.
This is no furniture for the scholar's library, but a book for the winter evening school-room when the tasks are over, and the hour for bed draws near; and honest Alan, who was a grim old fire-eater in his day, has in this new avatar no more desperate purpose than to steal some young gentleman's attention from his "Ovid," carry him a while into the Highlands and the last century, and pack him to bed with some engaging images to mingle with his dreams.
Double entry was his business; reading, his recreation; thinking, his vocation. From all this the great war called him as with a trumpet. "Look here, you fellows," he said quietly, "in spite of this war and all the rest of it, there are some good things in German." "What," they cried, "you, a fire-eater, stand up for the Kaiser and his language? Damn him!" "With all my heart," assented Mitchell.
Only a glance was needed to see that it was she, far more than her father, who was worried. "You must catch him," she appealed. "Father's life is in danger. Oh, you simply MUST." I knew Captain Marlowe to be a proverbial fire-eater, but in this case, at least, he was no alarmist. For, on the table, as he spoke, he laid a real bullet.
There was also a fire-eater; but some said he would never set the river in flames, though he had an antidote against all poisons! But then our Mithridates always tried its virtues on a stuffed poodle, whose bark evinced its vitality. There also was a giant in the wildest part of the shrubbery, and a dwarf, on whom the ladies showered their sugarplums, and who, in return, offered them tobacco.
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