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"I can't. I tell you I'm alone in the place." "No, you aren't. Who's that? Let him look after it for half an hour. A brisk walk will do you good. Ah, come now, John." "But he isn't " "I don't care. I want you to; we'll only go round by St. Agnes. If you don't " He crossed to where I stood in the shadow of the dispensary counter, and began some sort of broken apology about a lady-friend.
Turning the corner, I a'most fell over the skipper, wot was right in the fair way, shaking 'ands with his lady-friend under the lamp-post. Both of 'em started, and I couldn't make up my mind which gave me the most unpleasant look. "'Peep-bo! I ses, cheerful-like. "He stood making a gobbling noise at me, like a turkey. "'Give me quite a start, you did, I ses. 'I didn't dream of you being there.
We teased her a little about the gentleman; but she put it off quite indifferently, saying he was an acquaintance she had encountered in the street, and that she had promised to go with him next morning to call on a lady-friend of hers, a Mrs. Major Forsyth. We thought no more about it; and next morning, when the gentleman called in a carriage, Rose was quite ready, and went away with him.
I decide to wait; to make an attack, meanwhile, upon old Petelia the "Stromboli" of my lady-friend at the Catanzaro Museum.... It is an easy day's excursion from Cotrone to Strongoli, which is supposed to lie on the site of that ancient, much-besieged town.
Make yourself quite small, get into my throat go into my gizzard and I will carry you. 'Happy thought! says friend Fox. He takes bag and baggage, and, presto! is gone like a letter into the post. And Drakestail is off again, all spruce and fresh, still singing: 'Quack, quack, quack, when shall I have my money back? He had not gone far when he met his lady-friend Ladder, leaning on her wall.
"He is perfect not more than four or five years got his full range, but not his weight." Skag stopped abruptly, until the other nudged him. "Go on it's like a bench-show " "We called them Bengalis but that is just the trade-name " "You intimated he might have a lady-friend do they hunt in couples?" The boy didn't answer that. "You've never been in a tiger's cage?" he asked suddenly.
Evelyn was allowed considerable freedom, and one night, by special permit, Laura also accepted an invitation to dinner and the theatre. The two girls drove to a hotel, where they found Evelyn's mother, elegant but a little stern, and a young lady-friend.
Every now and then he'd get a yard nearer to me, and then they'd pull 'im back a couple o' yards and beg of 'im to listen to reason and 'ear wot I 'ad to say. And as soon as I started and began to tell 'em about 'is lady-friend he broke out worse than ever. People acrost the river must ha' wondered wot was 'appening. There was two lightermen, two sailormen, me and the skipper, and Mrs.
She hated asking Philip for money, but would he send some by return, as she had had to buy herself a new hat, she couldn't go about with her lady-friend always in the same hat, and her lady-friend was so dressy. Philip had a moment of bitter disappointment. It took away all his pleasure at getting through his examination.
Four days later she was riding through the native town of Loango, accompanied by a lady-friend, when she met Victor Durnovo. The sight of him gave her a distinct shock. She knew that he had left Loango three days before with all his men. There was no doubt about that. Moreover, his air was distinctly furtive almost scared.
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