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The snaffle passed across his chest, from whence the coatee, flowing easily back, displayed the broad ridge and furrow of a white cord waistcoat, with a low step collar, the vest reaching low down his figure, with large flap pockets and a nick out in front, like a coachman's.
In the meantime he searched his mind for some reasonable excuse. "Look here," he said, "I'll join you later, Oscar. I've promised some friends at Nantucket that I'll come down for the hunting." "I didn't know that you had friends in Nantucket," Oscar told him moodily. "The Merediths," George remembered in the nick of time the name of Becky's grandfather. Oscar would not know the difference.
"And then we must go to the left again, and then straight for'ard for a bit, up Shoe Lane: and then we shall be at the entry next to the o'erhanging window, where there's the nick in the road for the water to run. Eh, I can see it all." "O father, I'm like as if I was stifled," said Eppie. "I couldn't ha' thought as any folks lived i' this way, so close together.
May Old Nick run away with such relations who send you such great girls as this without paying the postage. To crown all, there was Cecily, who seemed to be up to trap, bursting into tears.
What she wants to do is to take me as I may be a year hence." "I don't understand since you tell me that even then she won't take back her word," said Mr. Carteret. "If she doesn't marry me I think she'll never marry again at all." "What then does she gain by delay?" "Simply this, as I make it out," said Nick "that she'll feel she has been very magnanimous.
Nick had long since abandoned subtlety in his dealings with Max Wyndham, a fact which indicated that he held him in very high esteem. Max's response expressed appreciation of the fact. He took his hand from his pocket and carelessly stretched it out. "I am absolutely sure," he said. "Make your mind easy on that point!" Their hand-grip was silent and brief.
The coastal plains produced by uplift of the land may be fertile and may furnish happy homes for man, but they do not permit ready access to the sea because they have no harbors. The chief harbor of Mexico at Vera Cruz is merely a little nick in the coast-line and could never protect a great fleet, even with the help of its breakwater.
Only trust him this once just this once! Give him his opportunity he has never had one before, poor boy and I know, I know, he will not throw it away." "You don't think he will laugh?" Muriel whispered. "My dear child, no! Nick doesn't laugh at sacred things." Muriel's face was burning in the darkness. She covered it with her hands as though it could be seen. For a few seconds she sat very still.
Whipple was now rapidly closing the short gap existing between them. At the same time it could be seen that the Allandale runner veered a trifle, as though to give Nick a fairly wide berth when passing. Plenty of fellows noticed this fact, nor did they wonder at it.
He was seated at a table with Bantum and Janstins, poring over a chart in which all three appeared to be deeply interested. "Welcome, Peter!" cried Hartog, when he saw me. "I'd have wagered you'd be with us, and here you are in the nick of time." "What's in the wind now?" I asked, as I drew a chair to the table at which the three were seated.
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