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But, say you're a pretty nervy youth to turn down my daughter and then hold me up for a job, all in the same breath. Here! Don't dance on my rug. I ought to be offended, and I am, but Get out while I telephone Elsa, so she can dance, too." O'Reilly spent that evening in writing a long letter to Rosa Varona. During the next few days his high spirits proved a trial and an affront to Mr.
It was too dark for them to see each other clearly. They were shadows to one another. They spoke in whispers, as though they were afraid of waking something more than the sleeper in the room behind them. He could not have told how he knew that her face was wet. "I wanted to say I don't know why I behaved like that. I'm not usually nervy uncontrolled. I don't think I've ever lost my temper before.
"You needn't count on a job ashore with the Blue Star Navigation Company," Cappy railed. "You needn't think " "Have I your permission to call on Miss Florry again?" Matt asked humbly. "No!" thundered Cappy. "You're as nervy as they make 'em! No, sir! You'll go to sea in the Gualala to-morrow morning d'ye hear? That's what you'll do!" But Matt Peasley shook his head.
She had his horse put up; presented him to the few people whom he had not met, and then left him posing for the crowd of admirers. Life to the sheriff was truly a stage. Then Elizabeth went to Vance. "You saw?" she gasped. "Sheriff Minter? What of it? Rather nervy of the old ass to come up here for the party; he hardly knows us." "No, no! Not that! But don't you remember?
"I don't see any nourishment for them in that." "Guess they thought I'd be apt to help you boys," Sandy replied, "and made up their minds to catch me and chuck me away somewhere. Chee's a nervy old lady, an' probably scrapped when they searched for me. I'd like to help her." "Why do you call her Chee?" "Because she's so cheerful, an' because I don't know her name," was the reply.
But all that Marianne distinctly saw was the white, set face of the rescuer as he soothed the child in his arms; in a moment it had stopped crying and the woman received it. It was the old man who uttered the thought of Marianne. "That was cool, young feller, and darned quick, and a nervy thing as I ever seen." "Tut!" said the other, but the girl thought that his smile was a little forced.
If you aim to hold her as a witness you can appoint a guard an' I'm the guard. D'you get me? 'Cause if there's any misunderstandin' lingerin' in them scrambled aigs you use fer brains, I'll just start out by tellin' the boys what a hell of a brave arrest you pulled off, an' about the nervy stand you made agin' odds to guard your prisoners when I yipped at you from the brush.
The same is true, generally, but of course in an infinitely lesser degree, of most of our immigrants. Usually it is the nervy and imaginative men who go to a new country. Our own pioneers were endowed with daring and vision. They had the courage and initiative to leave the scarcely warmed beds of their new-made homes and push farther on into the wilderness.
"But see here, Frank, that chap is nervy, all right, going up with Puss and standing all this racket. A tenderfoot is generally rattled even with a slow flight. He seems to be holding out." "I've been thinking about that," replied his chum. "And Andy, it looks to me as if that fellow must know something about aviation.
Feeling it hopeless to avoid some sort of a reason, she replied: "I had a letter this morning that upset me rather. It is silly of me to take any notice, and I shouldn't if I were well. I've been wretchedly nervy lately, and it makes me silly about things." "What was the letter about?"
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