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We cut three solid seconds this morning off the time we have been taking to get the gun into action, and a second a round off the firing of ten rounds. They'll make gunners yet if they keep at it." "Three seconds is good enough," said the other mildly. "It isn't good enough," returned the instructor, "if they can make it four, and four's not good enough if they can make it five.
'Let me see, said Mr Curdle; 'twice four's eight four shillings a-piece to the boxes, Miss Snevellicci, is exceedingly dear in the present state of the drama three half-crowns is seven-and-six; we shall not differ about sixpence, I suppose? Sixpence will not part us, Miss Snevellicci?
How happened it that when Byrne and Plume had so much to talk of the latter could find time to come away over to the hospital to inquire for a patient? And there! the call for half-past twelve had started at the guard-house and rung out from the stables and corrals. It was Four's turn to take it up now. Presently he did, but neither promptly nor with confidence.
"That's right, girlie," responded Clemm, as he ingratiatingly placed an arm about her wasp-like waist. "But two's company, and four's too much of a corporation for me." "Oh, Mr. Clemm nix on this in here Mr. Trubus is in his office, and he'll get wise...." As she spoke, not Mr. Trubus, but his estimable wife interrupted the progress of the courtship.
Perhaps had the oars been handy, the boat might not have remained so safely. The boys were glad to relieve their shoulders of the pair they had taken turns in carrying, and without pausing to rest, they stepped into the boat, Phil finding some difficulty in making the Scout boat's oars fit the Big Four's oarlocks. But at last they were off and Jerry bent to his task.
Five's shout went up at the instant, loud, confident, almost boastful, as though in rebuke of Four's timidity, and, as Truman half expected, there was the corporal of the guard leaning on his rifle, close to the veranda steps, and so absorbed he never heard the officer approach until the lieutenant sharply hailed: "Who's that on No. 4?"
OLIMPIÁDA SAMSÓNOVNA. Here, count: my wedding-dress of blond lace over a satin slip; and three velvets that makes four; two gauze and a crape embroidered with gold that's seven; three satin, and three grosgrain that's thirteen; gros de Naples and gros d'Afrique, seven that's twenty; three marceline, two mousseline de ligne, two Chine royale how many's that? three and four's seven, and twenty twenty-seven; four crape Rachel that's thirty-one.
The third chef was sure fancy! He juggled them cakes just like a vodeville artist does. Of a sudden he cuts loose a batch that sailed up high an' han'some, turned over an' cum down on the back of Four's neck him bein' entertained at the time by the feller in the tree." Ned had acquitted himself well, his story had the tang of reality in it, and he told it with rare enthusiasm.
Sixteen's on-widdy, and it knocks a hole in a long summer's day. Four's a flash in the pan; but eight's a pretty little number. He added genially: 'We'm all very much obliged to you, young man. 'Oh, said Paul, 'I like to be neighbourly. The muscles of his face were stiffening, and his inclination to laugh cost him a twinge.
"I do know, Mas' Gammon. And ought to: for don't I pour out to ye? It's five you take, and please, your cup, if you'll hand it over." "Four's my number, marm," Master Gammon reiterated resolutely. He sat like a rock. "If they was dumplins," moaned Mrs. Sumfit, "not four, no, nor five, 'd do till enough you'd had, and here we might stick to our chairs, but you'd go on and on; you know you would."
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