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It was decided that two men and a petty officer should be sent aboard the Laughing Lass to make her fast with a cable, and remain on board over night. But when the order was given the men hung back. One of them protested brokenly that he was sick. Trendon, after examination, reported to the captain. "Case of blue funk, sir. Might as well be sick. Good for nothing. Others aren't much better."
Upon my word, you could not find another like him all over Europe! He lectures can you imagine? as though he were sucking a sugar-stick sue, sue, sue;... he is in a nervous funk; he can hardly decipher his own manuscript; his poor little thoughts crawl along like a bishop on a bicycle, and, what's worse, you can never make out what he is trying to say.
"Or else, if I'm put to navigating, I'm fairly likely to bring the battleship into violent collision with the Chicago Limited, over in Ohio." "Come out of that funk, Davy!" ordered his chum. "I'm trying to, Danny boy; but there's many an hour when I feel that I haven't learned here all that I should have learned, and that I'll be miles behind the newest ensigns and lieutenants."
Elkins and Ajax rushed upstairs and into the Greiffenhagen bedroom. Elkins glanced at Pete, felt his pulse, and then said deliberately "My man, you're dying of sheer funk! You've poisoned yourself with nothing more deadly than good Kentucky whisky! In six hours you'll be perfectly well again." Pete heard, and pulled himself together.
I take you into my confidence, the first comer, you'll think. But there are not many men like you in this country, and I'm beastly afraid of dying. I'm in a damned funk. I want to get out of this for a bit, but I dare not leave until I set things going." "Take your time," said Meredith, quietly and soothingly; "light that cigar again and lie down. There is no hurry." Durnovo obeyed him meekly.
"Bosh," she said. "It's true, Sheila. My father could tell you that. I always funk things, not because I want to funk them, but because I can't help it. I'd give the world to be able to stop a horse, like that one last night, but I can't do it. I get paralysed somehow!..." "I never heard of any one like that before," she exclaimed. "No, I don't suppose you have.
"Are you ready for the plunge, Bill?" she asked, as her companion drew up beside her. "The path's not more than four feet wide. Does your 'plug' shy any?" "He's all right. You lead right on. Where you can travel I've a notion I'm not likely to funk. But I don't see the path." "I guess you don't.
"I found both the light and the dark one in the drawer," said Dr. Funk, "and remembered distinctly that it was the darker of the two which I had borrowed from Professor West. I went to the next séance, and when Rakestraw's spirit arrived I asked him to find out which one was to be returned. After a brief interval his voice came to me. "'Return the dark one, of course, he said.
We have understood each other during this fortnight as we never did in all those early years. Sometimes I funk it utterly following him with all of them against me." "Why, no," she cried. "It's splendid. You are in power. They can do nothing, and Robin will come round when he sees how you face it out. Why, I expect that he's coming already.
I must confess if the fellow had taken me at my word I should have been in as great a funk as he was, but he did not. My challenge was declined. A curious incident happened once in the rural district of Saffron Walden. It is a borough no doubt, but it always seemed to me to be too small for any grown-up thing, and its name sounded more like a little flower-bed than anything else.
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