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Updated: June 22, 2025
"I say," he said, "what must you think of me? Gassing about myself like that." "I think," she said, "it's awfully nice of you." "I don't suppose I shall do anything really big. Do you?" She was silent. "Honestly now, do you think I shall?" "I think the things you've done already, the things that'll never be heard of, are really big."
But upon further research, it was demonstrated that the sounds arose from purely physical and natural causes." The crowd which hitherto had listened in silence to the orator now began to show signs of impatience. "What the dickens is he gassing about?" shouted some one in the street. As the savant paid no attention to these signs the band struck up a military march.
Wrapped up in the routine of the Battalion, he was never happier than in Orderly Room with a full 'basket. Since the gassing of Headquarters, Shilson, a recently arrived officer with antecedents in the A.S.C., had acted adjutant; right creditably did he acquit himself in the duties suddenly cast upon him. Other new officers were now filling important positions in the Battalion.
He will endure shelling, gassing and all the horrors that scientific invention has produced; he will see his cottage and his barns shattered by bombs and siege-guns, but he will not leave the fields that he has tilled and toiled over, unless he is driven out at the point of the bayonet.
"Say, what are you chaps gassing about anyway?" demanded Barney Hedge, who was growing tired of waiting for his cronies. "Say, Barney, excuse us for awhile, will you," called out Ham, skating towards his friend. "We want to find out something from this tramp. He knows something about the Dodge crowd I am sure." "Oh! Well, I want to find out about them too," said Hedge and came closer.
"Well, I think I'll be going down and seeing about that state-room," he said. "Certainly. I am a little busy just now, preparing notes for my next lecture." "Of course, yes. Mustn't interrupt you. I suppose you're having a great time, gassing away I mean well, good-bye!" "Good-bye!" Mrs.
Pedro served him well as a rule, consequently the Mexican was enabled to ruffle it with the best in the settlement, whilst people wondered where he got his money from. Somehow they never thought of Lablache being the source of this man's means; the money-lender was not fond of parting. "You are right, I am particular. When I pay for work to be done I don't want gassing over a bar.
He was often alone with her at tea, her father having no taste for this form of refreshment, while her mother found reasons for being absent. "Queer old cove, your governor," Ashley observed, stretching himself comfortably before the fire. The blaze of logs alone lit up the room. "Is that why you seem to have taken a fancy to him?" "I like to hear him gassing.
'And when we got to the fags' room, said Vaughan, pointing the toasting-fork at the Babe by way of emphasis, 'there was the Mutual standing in the middle of the room gassing away with an expression on his face a cross between a village idiot and an unintelligent fried egg.
We might be mixed up in the big war any day." "Well, I expect we'd better not sit here gassing any longer. Tod, chase over and ask your dad where that wrench is unless you've got a notion I can twist this thing off with my hands." He gave a playful tug as if to carry out his boast. "Say!" he cried, "what do you know about this!"
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