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Saying this, and fitting the shingles into place, suddenly the warm and happy wave of confident idealism began to flood in upon him, and immediately his mind as well as his heart was satisfied. He reproached himself for having been scared lest his star was just a common candle, like himself. He had been cruel to judge her, as he might have judged her had she been well or a gump like Edith!
Lowering his voice to a half-whisper, he said: "We needn't tell her what I said to that old chap, Lou. Just let her think I sat around like a gump and never said a word to anybody. We can " "But she'll pin you down, Will, and you know you can't lie with a straight face." "Maybe maybe I'd better run down to New York for a few days," he muttered unhappily. "You can square it better than I can."
The old man by this time seemed able to see more clearly, and hear more distinctly, and his sense of smell grew keener. Never were such flashing gems as here, never had any flowers such scents as these that were here. There were now thousands of little ladies gathered on the Gump, and these all broke out into song at the same instant, such beautiful singing, too, so sweet and delicate.
I'm afraid this time the mountain must come to Mahomet. That ended it. He went away and never come back, and after a long spell she give in to her dad and married Bill Edwards. Foolish? 'Well, now, WA'N'T it!" "Humph!" grunted Crocker. "She must have been a born gump to let a smart man like him get away just for that."
Lily bought fancy cakes, mottoes, candies, and nuts, and a few oranges which were very expensive. The Underhill boys were invited, of course. Benny said "he didn't believe he would go. He shouldn't know what to do at a party." "Why, follow your nose," laughed Jim. "Do just as the rest do. Don't be a gump!" "And I hate to be fooling round girls." "You don't seem to mind Dele Whitney.
These hosts of Little People quickly took up their places in perfect order all about the Gump, and, though they appeared quite unconscious of his presence, a great number formed a ring all round the old man. He was greatly amazed, but, "Never mind," he thought, "they are such little whipper-snappers I can easily squash them with my foot if they try on any May-games with me."
Then the rider turned in her seat, looked about her, saw the heap of wood for the fire, the open lunch basket, the rods and landing-net, and me. I had stepped from the bushes when she first appeared and was standing motionless, staring, I imagine, like what Dorinda sometimes called her husband a "born gump." There was Fate in this! no doubt about it.
"Could you dally with a rice cake, kiddo?" asked Roy, as he deftly stirred up some rice and batter. "Sling me that egg powder, Tom, and give me something to stir with not that, you gump, that's the fever thermometer!" "Here's a fountain pen," said Pee-wee; "will that do?" "This screw-driver will be better," said Roy. "Here, kiddo, make yourself useful and keep turning that in the pan.
In course it's him the gump!" "Then, my good Stump, you will now tell me of this wonder all." It's not much there is to tell, sir, and wat there is isn't to his credit. His father was my father's brother. My father was in the hoss line out Saint John's Wood way in Lunnon, you know, sir and his father lived in our street and was a swell barber.
Contributed to Power by Walter B. Gump. The case about to be described concerns a steam plant in which there were seven cross-compound condensing Corliss engines, and two Curtis steam turbines. The latter were each of 1500-kilowatt capacity, and were connected to surface condensers, dry-vacuum pumps, centrifugal, hot-well and circulating pumps, respectively.
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