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Updated: May 16, 2025
A few minutes later a N.C.O. came in, and searched about for soap. As he was pocketing some small bits left behind, my wall threatened to fall outwards, but I managed to hold it steady until he went away. A five-and-a-half hour wait lay in front of me, and, my prison being dark, stifling and hot, the time passed intolerably slowly.
"It seems as if he were going to do the crowding out." "Why, is he so big?" jocularly. "There's six foot five-and-a-half of him." "Whew! And thin as a lathe, I suppose; a sort of animated telegraph pole." "No; broad in proportion, cut to measure absolutely." "Then he is a fine fellow," with conviction. Lorraine felt a swift glow of pride, and then inwardly admonished herself for being silly.
John Porter sat in the Grand Stand with his usual companion, Allis, beside him, as The Dutchman, Lucretia, and the other Eclipse horses passed down the broad spread of the straight Eclipse course to the five-and-a-half furlong post. Though Porter had missed his betting, he intuitively felt the joy of an anticipated win.
What does he want?" Emma did not know. "Oh!" said Mr. Queed, irritably "tell him to come up, if he must." The Post director came up two flights; he knocked; was curtly bidden to enter; did so. He stepped into one of the smallest rooms he had ever seen in his life; about nine by five-and-a-half, he thought.
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