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What good would it do you? You're not after her yourself, are you? Ha! ha! that's it! I didn't nose that! But come, hang it! where's the use? I'll give you four flimsies there! Twenty pounds, you idiot! There!" "Mr. Marway, nothing will make me hold my tongue not even your promise to drop the thing." "Then what made you come and cheek me? Impudence?" "Not at all!
Only common things should go to a steam laundry. That is their punishment for being common. But the pretties! the dainties! the flimsies! la la, my dear, their washing is an art. It requires wisdom, genius, and discretion fine as the clothes are fine. I will give you a recipe for homemade soap. It will not harden the texture. It will give whiteness, and softness, and life.
"Ha!" said the First Lord, "as you would not come to us, we have unbent our dignity and come to you. This is Chief Inspector Dawson." "So I supposed," growled the grizzled old man, who sat at a big desk upon which was piled many flimsies. It was the great Lord Jacquetot, who for all his French name was English of the English. "Will you explain to Mr.
The grey editor with a gruff voice threw over a bundle of flimsies. "Here are the market reports," he growled, "they are not very encouraging." Beale read them and whistled, and the editor eyed him keenly. "Well, what do you make of it?" he asked the detective. "Wheat at a shilling a pound already. God knows what it's going to be to-morrow!" "Any other news?" asked Beale.
I tell you, sergeant, when it comes to fancy things, women ha' got us skinned to death. Fancy us wearin' skirts an' things made o' them flimsies! We'd fall right through 'em an' break our dirty necks. An' the colors, too. Guess they'd shame a dago wench, an' set a three-year old stud bull shakin' his sides with a puffic tempest of indignation.
A straight drive through into Kingston, a call at the tailor's shop where Grell had re-fitted himself with clothes, and a few minutes' conversation with the assistant who had served him, gave him all the facts concerning the appearance of the man he was following. "I'd better take these two notes away," he said, beginning to fold up the flimsies.
'Youths, said the Phoenix, 'sons of misfortune, hear my words. 'My eyes! said Ike. 'Look out, Ike, said Urb, 'you'll throttle the joker and I see at wunst 'e was wuth 'is weight in flimsies.'00 'Hearken, O Eikonoclastes, despiser of sacred images and thou, Urbanus, dweller in the sordid city. Forbear this adventure lest a worse thing befall.
But they didn't have any trouble finding you. We discovered tonight that some kind of tracer material had been worked into all your clothes. Even the flimsies. Somebody may have been planted in the school laundry, but that's not important now." He looked at her for a moment. "What made you decide to take off so suddenly?" he asked. Trigger shrugged.
Suffice it to say that the dramatis personae are five in number viz., Father Christmas, Saint George, a Turkish Knight, the Doctor, and an Old Woman. All are dressed in paper flimsies of various shapes and colours. First of all enters Father Christmas.
Only tell me your trade, and I will join you, leaving the Vine of the Divine to take care of itself." "Come, I say! don't think that I am a printer of flimsies, and a smasher!" replied Jacques, laughing. "Oh, comrade! no such suspicion " "It would be excusable, seeing the rigs I run. But I'll make you easy on that point. I am spending an inheritance."
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