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But I myself was under no such perpetual disadvantage, and, while what was good enough for Raffles was quite good enough for me so long as we were together, I saw no harm in profiting by the present opportunity of "doing my-self well." Such were my reflections on the way to Richmond in a hansom cab.
I have, as everybody knows, devoted my whole life to Egyptian archaeology. I should be very ungrateful to my country, to science, and to my-self, if I regretted the profession to which I was called. In my early youth and which I have followed with honour these forty years. My labours have not been in vain.
An' Pat, he looked so devilishly gleeful thet if somethin' about Gene hedn't held me tight I'd hev got in the game my-self. It was plain to me an' others who spoke of it afterwards thet Pat Hawe hed forgotten the law an' the officer in the man an' his hate. "'I'm a-goin', an' I'm a-goin' right now! he shouted. "An' after thet any one could hev heerd a clock tick a mile off.
I am much obliged to your father, and I will avail my-self of his kindness, if I should find it necessary, next rear, when I may be building an addition here. I am sorry things don't go smoothly with-; but I guess nothing ever did go on without some hitches, that s, on this earth.
May; "but as to the Market Cross, that came down a year before he was born." "It was the Town Council!" said Ethel. "One of the ordinary stultifications of Town Councils?" "Take care, Spencer," said Dr. May. "I am a Town Council man my-self "
He was, for example, terribly sensitive about his lost arm and would not allow either the doctor or my-self to enter the room until he was covered to the neck, nor would he eat or drink in our presence. Yet he was the bravest of the brave, careless of himself and only fretful because he had not time to finish his new book. His indomitable spirit did not save him.
'Mine was a more selfish motive, said Martin, looking out again. 'I was afraid you were going to 'I can calc'late my distance, sir, returned Mr Chollop, 'to an inch. With a proof of which happy faculty he immediately favoured him. 'I re-quire, sir, said Hannibal, 'two foot clear in a circ'lar di-rection, and can engage my-self toe keep within it.
She seemed to speak but little. Her eyes wandered from her companion frequently to where I sat -but I gave myself due credit, at such moments, for the ability with which I conducted my own espionage. My inference equally unjust and unnatural that her timid glances to my-self denoted in her bosom a consciousness of wrong seemed to me the most natural and inevitable inference.
"I know how to behave my-self," said the mate, as he disappeared below. His head suddenly appeared again over the companion. "If some people don't," he added, and disappeared again.
"What keeps it going?" Betsy inquired. "I've no idea. I only know it's there," said Quox. "The fire keeps me alive and enables me to move; also to think and speak." "Ah! You are ver-y much like my-self," said Tik-Tok. "The on-ly dif-fer-ence is that I move by clock-work, while you move by fire." "I don't see a particle of likeness between us, I must confess," retorted Quox, gruffly.
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