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Then they fitted a long splint to my right leg from hip to ankle, so that I was helpless as a babe in its swaddlings, and made fast the other leg to that. They did not do more than loosen the cords that bound me just enough to suffer them to pass the bandages round until the splint was on, and the other men stood in a ring and gibed at me all the time.
Certainly not!" she gibed, to keep from bursting into tears. "An outsider would hardly have had access to Judge Marshall's pistol and Maxim silencer," he reminded her.
This time she looked Kinsolving straight in the eye, but it was not a look that gave delight. The two men went down Varick Street. Kenwitz, letting all his pessimism and rancor and hatred of the Octopus come to the surface, gibed at the moneyed side of his friend in an acrid torrent of words. Dan appeared to be listening, and then turned to Kenwitz and shook hands with him warmly.
She voiced this last desire in hushed tones. The girls laughed even while they drew their chairs still closer to the fire. "Such a chance!" gibed Will, but Betty's eyes were shining in the glow of the fire-light. "Oh, if we only could!" she whispered softly. "If we could only get the stuff stolen from Deepdale!"
They are going to try to save what is left of your boat." "It is kind of you, I'm sure, to pick up the pieces," MacRae gibed. "I am sorry," the girl breathed. "After the fact. Belting around a point in the dark at train speed, regardless of the rules of the road. Destroying a valuable boat, killing a man. Property is supposed to be sacred if life has no market value. Were you late for dinner?"
'Tis the Day of Judgment and you've gotten inside information!" jeered the Dago Duke. Dubois showed his yellowed teeth. "Mais oui, 'eet is ze Resurrection." "I swear, you look like Napoleon, Dubois!" gibed the Dago Duke, when he was fully arrayed. "Why not?" The Frenchman's face wore a complacent smirk. "Ze Little Corporal, he married a queen."
"You mean to ask what it is that Mr. Rossetti wants you to do. I didn't write the sonnet, you know." "You didn't fashion the arrow, but you aimed it." "Am I a good marksman?" "I suppose you mean that I'm wasting my time here." "Surely not!" she gibed. "Forming a link of transcontinental traffic.
The latter used to go about snapping and snarling, with a broad laugh painted on his countenance; and I can assure you that, whatever may be said of the gravity of a monkey, or the melancholy of a gibed cat, there is no more melancholy creature in existence than a mountebank off duty. The only thing in which all parties agreed was to backbite the manager, and cabal against his regulations.
"Sure!" said Jake. "And if I refuse to part with her? If she refuses to go?" "Either way," said Jake immovably. "And why?" Saltash straightened suddenly. "Tell me why! What in hell has it got to do with you?" "This," said Jake. "Just the fact that she's a girl needing protection and that I can give it." "Are you so sure of that?" gibed Saltash.
"In a little while another man came along and stopped and looked, and he rather gibed at the idea of a new church, and when I told him of the livery-stable man contributing one hundred dollars, he said, 'But you haven't got the money yet! "'No, I said; 'but I am going to get it to-night. "'You'll never get it, he said. 'He's not that sort of a man. He's not even a church man!
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