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If they don't burst or lose shape for a year I will pay you ten roubles for your work." Simon was frightened, and did not know what to say. He glanced at Michael and nudging him with his elbow, whispered: "Shall I take the work?" Michael nodded his head as if to say, "Yes, take it." Simon did as Michael advised, and undertook to make boots that would not lose shape or split for a whole year.
Some were smoking, nudging each other, joking, grinning, and laughing, others were munching sunflower seeds and spitting out the husks with an air of dignity.
All the way over from Pojuaque, Hill said, he could see out of the corner of his eye the old gent was nudging up to the Hen with his shoulder, friendly and sociable; and he said he noticed the Hen was a good deal less particular about making room.
Then he took his place in the first row of the stalls and sat down beside Dolokhov, nudging with his elbow in a friendly and offhand way that Dolokhov whom others treated so fawningly. He winked at him gaily, smiled, and rested his foot against the orchestra screen. "How like the brother is to the sister," remarked the count. "And how handsome they both are!"
There were the light biscuits and the golden butter, nice venison steaks for which they were indebted to the rifle of Mr. Jones, dried apple turnovers, and the sheets of crisp gingerbread, loaf cake, and fragrant coffee. "We don't get any whiskey at this raising!" said Mr. Palmer, nudging his next neighbor. "No," he replied; "and it's an example that I hope will be often followed."
But suddenly the film ended and the announcements for the next week began to flash on the screen. "We must go to that, sure!" said Jimmie, nudging Jane, as the Mary Pickford announcement was put on. There followed further particulars and an address and the showing stayed on the screen for a full minute.
Indeed, she bestowed on him a series of kisses that reechoed down the long pier, and Abe's pallor gave way to the sunburnt hue of his amused fellow-passengers. In one of them Abe recognized with a start the tanned features of the young lady of the Café de la Paix. "Moe," he said, nudging Griesman, "there's your friend."
After remaining awake for a considerable time, Baraja began to feel confidence, and perhaps would have gone to sleep, like the others, when all at once he heard several shots, similar to those that had been heard during the day, and which appeared to proceed from the same direction. "They are still firing over there," said he, nudging the old herdsman so as to awake him.
"The young dog," said I, nudging Hilary. "I should think he did!" "On the way there it became rather rather foggy." "Blessings on it!" I cried; for little Miss Phyllis's demure but roguish expression delighted me. "And he he found me in the fog." "What are you doing, Mr. Carter?" cried Mrs. Hilary angrily. "Nothing, nothing," said I. I believe I had winked at Hilary.
In the exuberance of my happiness, I have given him free leave to kiss Barbara and Tou Tou, but the poor man does not seem to be likely to have the chance. "Are not you going to speak to the general?" I say, nudging Barbara. "You have never said 'How do you do? to him." Thus admonished, they recover their presence of mind and turn to salute him.
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