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Next moment a hilarious cheer burst from the crowd, and Teddy Malone, from his retreat, shouted, "God bliss the Quane!" which infused hearty laughter into the cheer, whereupon Welsh and Nobbs, thinking the right time had come, sent out of their tin tubes, after a few ineffectual blurts, two terrific brays.
Deserting from it, I sought to discover a road to Guayaquil through the woods, where I suffered great hardships, and failed in the attempt." The adventurer paused a few seconds, and looked earnestly in Adams's countenance. "I am not justifying my conduct," he said, "still less boasting." "Right you are, Nobbs," said Adams, with an approving nod.
Then, another day Jim Dixon came along, and a friend of his had heard the tale from some Army man at his Club. It's exactly the way things went on about Nobbs, you know, beginning with talk like that. Really, if it wasn't for having seen Nobbs go down hill I shouldn't think anything of it. Young Molyneux is all straight so far, but so was Nobbs straight at first."
Nelson Randolph gazed at Polly with troubled eyes, and rested his arm upon his desk. "David Collins overheard something one night," she went on. "He was going up Edgewood Avenue when he came upon Mrs. Nobbs and a man, probably her brother, and what Mrs. Nobbs was saying made him keep along behind them, instead of passing as he was intending to do."
The sincerity of these worthies will be manifested by the following brief conversation which took place between them, in whispers 'A precious ugly scrape your friend has got himself into, said Mr. Nobbs. 'My friend, indeed! responded Mr. Jenks, indignantly 'curse the fellow, he's no friend of mine! I always suspected that he was a d d scoundrel at heart! 'I always knew so, rejoiced Mr. Nobbs.
Suddenly, about the hour of noon, Abel Welsh the carpenter, and Nobbs the blacksmith, issued from the palace with two long tin implements. Secretly, for two weeks previously, had these devoted men retired every night to the opposite extremity of Big Island, and frightened into fits the birds and beasts of that region with the sounds they produced in practising on those instruments.
Nobbs was up on the step-ladder in front of the placard, so I didn't see it at first, but when I did it muddled me so I just stood there and stared. Miss Sniffen turned round and said, 'What do you want? sharp as could be, just as if I had no business there. She felt guilty all right! You could see that! Well, if you'll believe me, I couldn't think what I had gone for! And she said it again!
We believe that the Reverend George H. Nobbs is still alive. At all events he was so last year, , having written a letter in June to the Secretary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, in which, among other things, he speaks of the "rapidly increasing community, now numbering 370 persons."
Now, as we've got no money to pay for work with, and as stones an' shells won't answer the purpus seein' there's a sight too much of 'em the question is, what's to be done?" "Not an easy question to answer, Nobbs," said Dominick, "and one that requires serious consideration.
Ever since the night of the robbery the man called "His Nobbs" for want of a better name had kept Ned Nestor in sight most of the time. He had followed him home after the profitless visit to the newspaper office on the night of the theft, had chased about after him while the details of the trip to Panama were arranged the next day, and had turned up on the ship after she was under way.
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