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"Brush instanter." Having changed my uniform for shag trowsers, pea-jacket and a south-west cap, I went forward and took my station, in no pleasant humor, on the stowed jib, with my arm around the stay.
And he must respond, instanter, or he will find that he has earned the C.B. which in this instance means not Companion of the Bath, but Confined to Barracks, a punishment as hard to bear as the cruel "keeping in" of our school-days. For the men whom he sees are not, as a matter of fact, able-bodied, even though muscular enough to stand this short physical effort.
A foe, indeed, the average man would think twice before "tackling," especially in the light of the fearful exhibition of Indian prowess of the 25th of June. But the leader of the th never thought twice. No sooner did the breathless couriers reach him with the news than he formed his plans instanter. Within an hour every horse and man in the th seemed to know they had a race and a fight ahead.
"I wish he'd go back and take a couple of scalps," I volunteered. My father regarded me quizzically. "Don't like the Mormons, eh, son?" I shook my head and felt myself swelling with the inarticulate hate that possessed me. "When I grow up," I said, after a minute, "I'm goin' gunning for them." "You, Jesse!" came my mother's voice from inside the wagon. "Shut your mouth instanter."
When he had passed, my grandfather rode back to the yett of the Lord James Stuart's lodgings, which by this time was opened, and instanter, on mentioning to the porter from whom he had come, was admitted to his master.
As a precaution against oversleeping, a watchman goes about just before daybreak, and makes a rousing clatter at the gate of every Mussulman’s house to warn him that if he wants anything to eat he must get it instanter. Our roommates evidently intended to make an “all night” of it, for they forthwith commenced the preparation of their morning meal.
It's not for the party! It's for me, Cora, for me " "Such a nice party party " A fragment of Milicent's treble good nights drifted in from the sidewalk like an echo. Shelby waked from a restless night to confront a restless day, in truth, an anxious week. Two things he set about instanter; he wrote a manly letter of apology to Ruth, and he returned Mrs. Hilliard's money.
Had the farce continued a day or two longer, he would have had the disagreeable option forced upon him, either of being seriously ill, or of returning instanter to excellent health. At length the important day arrived on which the survey did assemble. The large table in the cabin was duly littered over with paper and medical books, and supplied with pens and ink.
"With much love, from your affectionate Aunt, "MARTHA MORTON. "Sir Tilton Everly, "Paris, Hotel European, 2nd Nov., 1887." "It will please the aunts if I write instanter, so here goes." "DEAR AUNT MARTHA, Draft received, came in handy, can assure you. You are a jolly pair of relations for a fellow to have; never wanted the needful more.
I hurried off instanter to the address mentioned; and, although newspaper men of the New World, unlike ours, are uncommonly early birds, getting up matutinally betimes so as to catch the typical worm in which respect they resemble the entire business population of Transatlantica I found, on my arrival, that I was the first candidate who had appeared on the scene.
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