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Alice began to perceive something big and admirable in this man's spirit. She was not of his faith quite the contrary. She was a fatalist. Nothing happened in her world. But she was imaginative enough to understand his point of view. Haney went on. "I know all the tricks. I lairned them, not to use in the game, but to keep them out of the game. I had too much faith in me luck to ever weaken."
perhaps we shall see whether we are on the right system: and if so, we'll dose her with youthful society in a more irrashinal form; conversaziones, cookeyshines, et citera. And if we find ourselves on the wrong tack why then we'll hark back. Stick blindly to 'a course, the Dockers cry. But it does me harm: Then 'twill do good by-and-bye. Where lairned ye that, Echoes of Echoes, say!
And you may bless my puppy's four bones too: he ran and stole a fly like a man, and drove hilter-skilter. Now, lf I had got to your house two minutes later, your Jamie would have lairned the great secret ere this." He threw up the window. "Haw you! come away and receive the applause due from beauty t' ajeelity."
D'ye think I've known these shallow men thirty years, and not plumbed 'um?" "Shallow, my good friend? Excuse me! they are the ablest men in your own branch of your own learned profession." "Th' ablest! Oh, you mean the money-makingest: now listen me! our lairned Profession is a rascally one. It is like a barrel of beer. What rises to the top?" This blast blown, he moderated a little.
I vould lairn more of ze British institutions; so far I haf lairned of ze pleasures only.” “My dear Baron, they are the British institutions.” The Baron shook his head and fell to his paper again, while Mr Bunker stretched himself on the sofa and gazed through his cigar-smoke at the ceiling. Suddenly the Baron gave an exclamation of horror. “My dear Baron, what is the matter?”
"But bein' a man of sceince, I feel for th' higher organisation. Mice are a part of Nature, as much as market-gardeners." "So be stoats, and adders, and doctors." Sampson appealed: "Jintlemen, here's a pretty pashint: reflects on our lairned profission, and it never cost him a guinea, for the dog never pays." "Don't let my chaff choke ye, doctor. That warn't meant for you altogether.
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