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Updated: May 26, 2025
He was, it will be noted, learning something of diplomacy. "He has a magnificent old face the face of a fine nature which has suffered terribly. I have seen him as he stood at the ship's rail, astern, watching the white wake as if every bubble on it was a marker on a tragic path.
But the human being who can hear unmoved a fellow human being offering him thirty start in a game of a hundred has yet to be born. He accepted the challenge, and permission to play having been granted by the powers that were, on the understanding that the cloth was not to be cut and as few cues broken as possible, the game began, James acting as marker.
"Venters, I could hev dropped when I seen them hosses. But thet sight ain't a marker to the looks of you. What's wrong? Hev you gone crazy? You must be crazy to ride in here this way with them hosses talkie' thet way about Tull en' Jerry Card." "Jud, I'm not crazy only mad clean through," replied Venters. "Mad, now, Bern, I'm glad to hear some of your old self in your voice.
We call the places Khautmi-sa and Khautmi-bana, but the English have their own names for them." Marker nodded. "I know the places. They are Gurkha camps. The officers are called Mitchinson and St. John. They will give us little trouble. But the Forza garrison is too near the pass for safety, and yet far enough away for my plans."
One cobbler clergyman in Andover, Vermont, worked at his shoe-mending all the week with his Bible open on his bench before him, and he marked the page containing any text which bore on the subject of his coming sermon, with a marker of waxed shoe-thread. Often the Bible, in his pulpit on Sunday, had thirty or forty of these shoe-thread guides hanging down from it.
When my last chip is gone I holds up a finger for a marker and tells him I'll take another stack of fifty, all blues this time, but he only looks at me sort of chilly and distrustful and remarks in a kind of a bored way that there's nothing doing. "'That'll be all right, I says to him. 'I'll see you to-morrow. "'No, you wont, he says, spiteful-like.
Marker, as he shook hands with the serene young woman who came forward to meet them, with a sweet unconsciousness of self in her greeting. There were depths in Travis Dent's grave, gray eyes that bespoke a strong, self-reliant character. The train was beginning to move. Mary Lee waved a last good-bye and went back to Travis.
"All right, father," conceded the young aviator, "but that ain't a marker to the possibilities of the machine. I haven't put over the real stunt yet." "And what's that?" demanded his parent.
'Cook, said Tom, turning over some leaves of the ledger. 'Well! 'Read out an easy place or two, said the fat lady. 'Pick out very light ones, if you please, young man, interposed a genteel female, in shepherd's-plaid boots, who appeared to be the client. "Mrs Marker," said Tom, reading, "Russell Place, Russell Square; offers eighteen guineas; tea and sugar found.
But, as we have in this favourite hobbyhorse style of ours, which causes description to start up as recollections occur, accompanied the lumberer on his voyage to that lumberer's Paradise, Quebec, whither he has conducted his charge to The Coves, for the culler to cull, the marker to mark, the skipper to ship, and the lumber-merchant to get the best market he can for it, so we shall return for a short time to Lower Canada, to talk a little about settlement there.
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