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'And Miss Falkland's up there too, staying with the young ladies, says Maddie. 'Why, Jim, what's up with you? I thought you wasn't taking notice. 'Come along, Dick, says Jim, quite hoarse-like, making one jump to the door. 'Dash it, man, what's the use of us wasting time jawing here? By , if there's a hair of her head touched I'll break Moran's neck, and shoot the lot of them down like crows.
"Probably not," I replied; "I should think he hears far too many people jawing. I hope he makes me feel like a convict, and then I shall behave myself all right, but a silence at a meal gives me fits." "Miss Davenport is never silent," Murray asserted. "If she can talk about pork, you may guess she has plenty to say.
"I should like to know who it is that has hexposed the old gal to the night hair in this here manner," still muttered the other, holding up the object in question to his closer scrutiny; "it was only this morning I gave her a pair of bran new apron strings, and helped to dress her myself. If she doesn't hang fire after this, I'm a Dutchman that's all." "What signifies jawing, Tom Fluke.
And now, happening to glance upwards, I spied seven or eight faces peering down at me through the skylight. "'Swallow, do the jawing, will 'ee? said the man who called himself Stevenson. "'Why, yes, answered Swallow, posting himself at the top of the table, and addressing me through the double ranks of men on either side. 'This is how it stands with us, Mr.
But when they came up to him a scowl darkened his dark face, and he said: "Lyte as usyal! Two of the bloomin' turns not come, and me looking up and dahn the bloomin' street for you every minute and more!" The girl's eyes blinked as if he had struck her, but she only tossed her head and stiffened her under lip, and said: "Jawing again, are ye?
"And have you done any better, I'd like to know? I've always used to get up with the lark, till I came under the petrifying influence of your turgid intellect." "YOU used to get up with the lark Oh, no doubt you'll get up with the hangman one of these days. But you ought to be ashamed to be jawing here like this, in a red blanket, on a forty-foot scaffold on top of the Alps.
"You've made a pretty average ghastly mess of it, Tulke." "Why why didn't you lick that young devil Beetle before he began jawing?" Tulke wailed. "I knew there'd be a row," said a prefect of Prout's house. "But you would insist on the meeting, Tulke." "Yes, and a fat lot of good it's done us," said Naughten. "They come in here and jaw our heads off when we ought to be jawin' them.
"It was all Noël's fault," H.O. said; "what did he want to go jawing about Rome for? and a clown's as good as a beastly poet, anyhow! You remember that day we made toffee? Well, I thought of it then." "You didn't tell us." "Yes, I did. I half told Dicky. He never said don't, or you'd better not, or gave me any good advice or anything. It's his fault as much as mine.
And now came more tramping and a pause, and then the thundering thump of the battering-ram. And the little room was almost pitch dark. "We've held it," cried Robert, "we won't surrender! The sun must set in a minute. Here they're all jawing underneath again. Pity there's no time to get more stones! Here, pour that water down on them. It's no good, of course, but they'll hate it."
Captain Chunn found a chance to draw the boy aside for a question. "Is it all right with Mr. Webber? What did he do?" "Oh, he gave me a jawing," the boy answered. The little man nodded. "I reckoned that was what he would do. Be a good boy, Jeff. I never knew a man more honorable than your father. Run straight, son." "Yes, sir," the lad promised, a lump in his throat.
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