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"'Now, citizen! said I, thinking it was about time I disclosed to Mr. Prompt who I was, and also the character of my mission, 'as you seem to be the establishment in general, and can grant such very accommodating passports, let me inform you that I, Solomon Smooth, am Mister Pierce's Minister Extraordinary, to Europe in particular. Mr. Prompt's sharp visage now became sharper.
"Been stepping on tacks, Mister?" he hailed, having looked at the tires before he took stock of the human freight. "Hello, Bill," Worth was singing out. "Give me another machine or get our spare filled and on whichever's quickest. I want to make it to the house as soon as I can." "Lord, boy!" The wide man began wiping a big paw before offering it. "I'm glad to see you." They shook hands.
Never had he loved her in her gaiety and her indifference as he loved her now, when she looked so sweetly, so almost sorrowfully. A week later he went to see her. "Well, Mister Bert Bradley," she smiled at him, unfastening the string from the great box of roses that had simultaneously arrived from some other admirer, "I didn't know what to make of you!
He had had the sort of pride in his son that a man may have in an idle, elegant, and absurdly expensive woman. It even tickled him to hear his son called `Master Edwin, and then `Mister Edwin'; just as the fine ceremonious manners of his sister-in-law Mrs Hamps tickled him. His marriage! With all its inevitable disillusions it had been wonderful, incredible. He looked back on it as a miracle.
"That ain't no concern of yourn," said Billy. Then, suddenly correcting himself, he added, "Leastways it ain't no concern of these here two blokes. Mister, I say, governor, is it too late for to learn me to- night?" "Yes, it's too late to-night; but we'll have the school to-morrow instead. Where will you live while your mother's away?" "Oh, ain't you funny!" said the boy, with a grin.
"Are you speaking of the patrol- waggon? It is just round the corner." This allusion to the police was not wasted upon The Babe's friend, who scowled and retorted glibly "There's better men than you, mister, who ride in that." After this exchange of pleasantries we took the road, and followed our guide across a great thorough-fare and into Kearney Street. Thence into the labyrinth of Chinatown.
"I'm not sure yet, Captain," Mike hedged. "May I borrow these three books?" He held them up in his hands. "May I be so bold as to ask why, Mister Gabriel?" "I just want to look at them, sir," Mike said. "I'll return them within a few hours." "Mister Gabriel," Captain Quill said, "after what happened last night, I am suspicious of everything that goes on aboard this ship. But yes.
He thinks that he's got the start o' us, an' won't need to double by way o' deceivin' us; and then he knows that the whole tribe is after him, and consekintly won't take a long road when there's a short one, if he can help it. But here's the rock. Look out, Mister Charles.
Raymond saw the name of Sabina Dinnett. "I'll be there to help you," he promised. "Nicholas Roberts is the lover of Miss Northover," explained Estelle, "and Benny Cogle is the lover of Miss Gale. That's why I asked them. I very nearly went back and asked Mister Baggs to come, because he seems a silent, sad man; but I was rather frightened of him."
For a full half minute the elder man sat there in the dusk, and then said slowly: "All right, boy I mean, Mister Townsend I will hereafter." In the gloom his figure seemed suddenly bent forward more than usual, and his voice had a note of terrible hurt. It was as if all the ties of seven years of vicissitude had been arbitrarily cast off by his old partner; that they had become master and man.
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