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So saying, he ushered me into a small room behind the shop where he proceeded to whisk forth a bewildering array of garments for my inspection, until table and chairs were piled high and myself dazed with their infinite variety. "B' James!" cried the little man, blinking, "I'll turn ye out as nobby a little spark as ever cocked a neye at a sighin' young fe-male.
Said a Polar bear'd popped out forninst a hummock an' chased um like tu th' tale av Morley, here. Nobby, sez Johnson, on'y grins at th' man, an' sez he: 'That's nothin'! An' thin he shtarts in tellin' thim all 'bout this widder at Regina." He was greatly respected and trusted by all the Indian tribes. The most northerly post of the R.N.W.M. Police.
He seemed very jovial, but nevertheless he kept his eye on the door with an expectant and uneasy watchfulness. By and by a nobby lackey appeared, and delivered a message to the mistress, who nodded her head understandingly. That seemed to settle the thing for Mr.
"Did you ever see him?" asked Scorch. "I I don't know that I have," said Nancy, slowly. "He ain't been snooping around that school?" "Why, I haven't noticed anybody like that." "A big man all in gray. He's some nobby dresser! I thought he was the President or Secretary of State at least when he came into the office and asked for Old Gordon. I takes him in at once.
"He thinks I'm a young swell like you." "What's a swell?" "Oh, a feller that wears nobby clothes like you." "And you, too, Dick." "Yes," said Dick, "who'd ever have thought as I should have turned into a swell?" They had now got out on Broadway, and were slowly walking along the west side by the Park, when who should Dick see in front of him, but Johnny Nolan?
And Nobby Island looked grand and stately instead of nobby, the great house settin' up there on a high rock with big green lawns and windin' paths under the shade trees, and the bright faced posies on its tall banks peekin' over to see their faces in the deep water below, and mebby lookin' for the kind master who had gone away to stay.
Last night we heard that Jehu had reached Hut Point in about 5 1/2 hours. This morning we got away in detachments Michael, Nobby, Chinaman were first to get away about 11 A.M. The little devil Christopher was harnessed with the usual difficulty and started in kicking mood, Oates holding on for all he was worth. Bones ambled off gently with Crean, and I led Snippets in his wake.
I class it with being able to wear a pink-barred shirt front with a diamond-cluster pin in it; with having my clothes so nobby and stylish that one thread more of modishness would be beyond the human power to endure; with being genuinely fond of horseracing; with being a first-class poker player, I mean a really first-class one; with being able to swallow a drink of whisky as if I liked it instead of having to choke it down with a shudder; with knowing truly great men like Fitzsimmons, or whoever it is that is great now, so as to be able to slap him on the back and say: "Why, hello!
At the Nobby Men's Wear Shop he took his left hand off the steering-wheel to touch his scarf, and thought well of himself as one who bought expensive ties "and could pay cash for 'em, too, by golly;" and at the United Cigar Store, with its crimson and gold alertness, he reflected, "Wonder if I need some cigars idiot plumb forgot going t' cut down my fool smoking."
"That's a nobby hoss," said Ricks, pointing down the hill. "What's the matter with the feller?" A slight, delicate-looking young man was lying in the road, between the horse and the fence. As the boys came up he stirred and tried to rise. "He's off his nut," said Ricks, starting to pass on; but Sandy stopped. "Get a fall?" he asked. The strange boy shook his head. "I guess I fainted.
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