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"Bless my soul, Roland, you seem to think man is made for nothing else but to be shot at! You would not like the army, Pisistratus?" "Why, sir, not if it pained you and my dear mother; otherwise, indeed " "Papoe!" said my father, interrupting me. "This all comes of your giving the boy that ambitious, uncomfortable name, Mrs. Caxton; what could a Pisistratus be but the plague of one's life?
H. was continually interrupting with a cold, inexorable 'Wait knock off twenty-five per cent. of that; now go on; or, 'Wait you are getting that too strong; cut it down, cut it down you get a leetle too much costumery on to your statements: always dress a fact in tights, never in an ulster; or, 'Pardon, once more: if you are going to load anything more on to that statement, you want to get a couple of lighters and tow the rest, because it's drawing all the water there is in the river already; stick to facts just stick to the cold facts; what these gentlemen want for a book is the frozen truth ain't that so, gentlemen? He explained privately that it was necessary to watch this man all the time, and keep him within bounds; it would not do to neglect this precaution, as he, Mr.
His talk was disconnected, owing probably to the fact that he was racking his brain for facts relative to the seamy side of shipbroking. And Hardy, without any encouragement whatever, was interrupting with puerile anecdotes concerning the late lamented Joe Banks. The captain came to the rescue. "The ladies are in the garden," he said to the doctor; "perhaps you'd like to join them."
Like all talkers who know too much, Forepaugh had, what Carlyle called, a terrible faculty for developing into a bore. Some of our little group would run when they saw him at the door, others took malicious pleasure in interrupting him and suddenly changing the conversation in the hope to catch him tripping. But out of all such tests he came triumphantly.
To what end?" shrieked the old man. "Shall I tell you. Because a man who is a friend must still be half a lover, and a woman cannot bear to give up even a quarter of one." "Not so!" exclaimed Philippus, indignantly interrupting him.
"Thank you, dear uncle," she said, as he released her and turned to his work again, "I will go now and try what I can do to induce mamma to accept your kind invitation. And please excuse me for interrupting you when you were so busy." "I am never too busy to attend to you, Evelyn," he returned in a kindly tone; "come freely to me whenever you will."
That will depend on our friends over in Europe. We have given them a nightmare, but it won't last, and they'll go to bed again to get another." "Who are your miners?" I asked suddenly, interrupting him, for I saw that the rock above the nameless ship was pierced with tunnels leading down to the shafts, and that forty or fifty coal-black fellows were shooting the stuff into the bunkers.
I shall start for Troy one week from to-day, and I wish you would attend a little to my wardrobe; it's in a most lamentable condition. My shirts are all worn out, my coat is rusty, and last Sunday I discovered a hole in my pantaloons " "Dr. Kennedy," exclaimed Maude, interrupting him, "you surely do not intend to present yourself before the fastidious Miss Glendower with those old shabby clothes.
I know how apt these impressions are to be obliterated a new face, a more advantageous connection " "Hold, sir," said I, indignantly interrupting him, "you can not think so meanly of me you can not rate the son of your friend so low!" "I am very far indeed," replied he, "from rating you low.
I said that I would never oppose the will of my sweetheart, and my Dubois, interrupting me, said in her turn that she would never leave me until I sent her away. Lebel found these replies too vague, and told me with noble freedom that we must give him a definite reply, since in such cases uncertainty spoils all.
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