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If it hadn't been for me to-day, he'd have had that 'ere Roman down, and made a riot of it, in another minute. 'And why not? cried Hugh in a surly voice, as he overheard this last remark. 'Where's the good of putting things off? Strike while the iron's hot; that's what I say.
Yes, Nevil, you cannot escape from it. Papa, he preaches Calvinism in politics. 'We stick to men, and good men, the colonel flourished. 'Old English for me! 'You might as well say, old timber vessels, when Iron's afloat, colonel.
Strike while the iron's hot; 'Make hay while the sun shines; etc. My next attempt will be the Silver Cloud Waltz. This is the tide in my affairs, and I must be thrifty enough to take it at its flood." On the following morning after breakfast it was observed that the wind was from the nor-nor-east, or nearly exactly toward their destination.
I'd have been glad to take one fifty for it." Meanwhile the widow had pursued her scheming way toward State Street. The moral support of Snaffle's testimony to her ability and his admiration for her personal appearance probably upheld her during her interview with Mr. Iron's clerk.
Why, a-setting in his high chair as good as gold, a precious, watching me doing of the ironing. Get along with you, do my iron's cold again." She went towards the cook, and seemed to poke an invisible fire with an unseen poker the cook seemed to be putting an unseen dish into an invisible oven. "Run along with you, do," she said; "I'm behindhand as it is.
Neefit; "go and join Polly. You'll find she's all I tell you. I'll sit here and have a pipe." Ralph did join the ladies; and, finding Mrs. Neefit asleep, he induced Polly to take a walk with him amidst the lanes of Hendon. When he left Alexandrina Cottage in the evening, Mr. Neefit whispered a word into his ear at the gate. "You know my mind. Strike while the iron's hot.
"Come up to kiss me good luck?" he asked, finding her lips. "Yes, and to tell you how splendid you are, going right to work this way," she answered fondly. "Oh, I don't believe in losing time; and I've got to strike while the iron's hot, if I'm going to write out that logging-camp business. I'll take it over to that Events man, and hit him with it, while it's fresh in his mind."
She knew Shining Iron's bravery, and she doubted not he would fulfil his promise; for a moment prudence suggested that she had better marry him to avoid his revenge. But she grasped the handle of her knife, as if she would plunge it into her own bosom for harboring the dark thought.
Irons had, moreover, given the young man to understand that the transaction was a confidential and personal one, which involved more than appeared on the surface. Confronted by the phraseology of Mr. Iron's note, backed by Mrs.
And suddenly he found his mother's hand squeezing his. "You see," he heard Soames say, "we can't have it all begin over again. There's a limit; we must strike while the iron's hot." Val freed his hand. "But you're never going to bring out that about the pearls! I couldn't stand that I simply couldn't!" Winifred cried out: "No, no, Val oh no! That's only to show you how impossible your father is!"
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