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Dixon was remonstrating with a bookmaker, Ulmer, when the latter answered, "Ten's the best I'll lay I'd rather take it myself; in fact, I have backed your mare because I think she's got a great chance; she'll be at fours race day.
The young artists the "boys," as they would have called themselves were circulating busily with teacups and petits fours, and the chatter of voices bore testimony to the preponderance of the Bohemian element. It is only the dwellers on the confines who lose their voices in the Temple of Art a goddess who, to judge by her votaries, is not wont to take pleasure in silence.
He draws for us a picture of those fifty women on all fours, in all their plastic nudity, striving for the chestnuts flung to them in that chamber of the Apostolic Palace by Christ's Vicar an old man of seventy by his son and his daughter. Nor is that all by any means.
Thereupon, with a bland and sane smile, the Honorable William Jones shook his head and folded his cards together. The judge displayed queens and tens, the gentleman opposite queens and deuces. Dunwody laid down his own hand, which showed aces and fours. They all sighed. "Gentlemen, you all deserve to win," said Dunwody. "I feel like a thief."
This was indeed a weird, flaming headgear, falling like a cloak down over the shoulders. I put it on, and, camera in hand, started to crawl on all fours toward Spitfire. I needed no one to tell me that this proceeding was entirely beyond his comprehension. In his astonishment he forgot to spit and growl, and he backed behind the little pine, from which he regarded me with growing perplexity.
He had instructed his servant accordingly and now a silver tea-service that had belonged to his grandmother and which, being Victorian, was hideous, gleamed at him as he entered the rooms. Something else gleamed also. On a rug, a puddle of sunlight had spilled. Above, on the embossed platter, were petits fours, watercress sandwiches, a sack of sweetmeats, a bunch of violets, a scatter of cups.
We knocked at a large door which opened immediately, slipping back in its groove. Then two funny little women appeared, oldish-looking, but with evident pretensions to youth: exact types of the figures painted on vases, with their tiny hands and feet. On catching sight of me they threw themselves on all fours, their faces touching the floor. Good gracious! What can be the matter? I asked myself.
Lund had brought up the muzzle of his pistol to the height of a man's chest, but there was nothing to oppose it. "Hidin', the damn fool! What kind of a game is this? Come out o' there." Something scuttled on the floor of the room then darted swiftly out between the legs of Lund and Rainey, on all fours, like a great dog.
She ended by venturing to speak to him about his violent attack, surprised at hearing him reason like in the good old times. "Ah, yes," said he, joking at his own expense; "I talked a precious lot of nonsense! Just fancy, I saw rats and ran about on all fours to put a grain of salt under their tails. And you, you called to me, men were trying to kill you.
Don Quixote, finding himself free, strove to get on top of the goatherd, who, with his face covered with blood, and soundly kicked by Sancho, was on all fours feeling about for one of the table-knives to take a bloody revenge with.
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