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Updated: June 14, 2025
‘How are you?’ said this worthy, laughing, as if it were the finest joke in the world to make a morning call, and shaking hands with the ladies with as much vehemence as if their arms had been so many pump-handles. ‘You’re just the very man I wanted,’ said Mr. Percy Noakes, who proceeded to explain the cause of his being in requisition.
Noakes' summing up, "to order a new one, I wouldn't." The footman in the shabby livery had been a little wild in his statements, being rendered so by the admiring and excited state of his mind.
This will ensure our having a pleasant party, you know.’ ‘What a manager you are!’ interrupted Mrs. Taunton again. ‘Charming!’ said the lovely Emily. ‘I never did!’ ejaculated Sophia. ‘Yes, I think it’ll do,’ replied Mr. Percy Noakes, who was now quite in his element. ‘I think it’ll do.
'No grinning matches at Mai-dun Castle this summer, Festus resumed; 'no thread-the-needle at Greenhill Fair, and going into shows and driving the showman crazy with cock-a-doodle-doo! 'I suppose not. 'Does it make you seem just a trifle uncomfortable, Noakes? Keep up your spirits, old comrade. Come, forward! we are only ambling on like so many donkey-women.
"He ain't responsible," said Joey, putting the whole of his summing up in a single phrase. The great news had finally found a clear lodgment in David's brain. He had listened to the reading of the newspaper story by Ruby Noakes. It was now very plain to him that his present vicissitudes were at an end.
Percy Noakes was a law student, inhabiting a set of chambers on the fourth floor, in one of those houses in Gray’s-inn-square which command an extensive view of the gardens, and their usual adjuncts—flaunting nursery-maids, and town-made children, with parenthetical legs. Mr.
Early in the morning Capt. Ned called in all the sea-captains in the harbor and invited them, with nautical ceremony, to be present on board his ship at nine o'clock to witness the hanging of Noakes at the yard-arm! "What! The man has not been tried." "Of course he hasn't. But didn't he kill the nigger?" "Certainly he did; but you are not thinking of hanging him without a trial?" "Trial!
I'm different, am I? I'm not as good as she is, am I? Well, say, lemme tell you one thing: Ruby Noakes ain't going to hook up with a sneak thief." "Ernie," said Dick, going very white and speaking very slowly, "you sometimes make me wish you'd 'a' died that time." "I wish I had! Then they'd 'a' hung you."
He said, just before you came in, that because she had refused to marry me, he would make her marry a footman; and, as I really believe his lordship is occasionally endowed with superhuman powers of executing what he thinks fit, it would not surprise me at all to see my Lady Laura led to the altar by John Noakes, our porter's son, dressed up for the occasion as a foreign prince."
Vice-Presidents Messrs. Noakes and Styles. 'MR. KWAKLEY stated the result of some most ingenious statistical inquiries relative to the difference between the value of the qualification of several members of Parliament as published to the world, and its real nature and amount.
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