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He gave the impression of one who has lived actively with horses in a sunny climate. Twisting the car sharp round at the gate, he said: "When is young Jon coming?" "To-day." "Is there anything you want for him? I could bring it down on Saturday." "No; but you might come by the same train as Fleur one-forty."
Two hundred and fifty dollars, and gold up to one-forty at home, which makes another clean hundred. What a mercy it is she didn't ask a thousand, though! She took the starch out of me, through and through. I should have handed over anything she asked."
If Norris could catch the one-forty from Horton, he would arrive just in time to take part in a cricket match, that day being the day of the annual encounter with the neighbouring village of Pudford.
"'Wa'al, he said, 'puttin' it that way, I s'pose I'd 'a' said one-seventy. "'Yes, I says, 'an' then agin, if I'd said that he wa'n't wuth that money to me, not bein' jest what I wanted an' so he ain't but that I'd give one-forty, cash, what do you s'pose you'd 'a' said?
'That you won't be able to go. It seems rather a catch. 'Can't go? said Norris; 'my dear sir, you're talking through your hat. Think I'm going to refuse an invitation like this? Not if I know it. I'm going to toddle off to Jephson, get an exeat, and catch that one-forty. And if I don't paralyse the Pudford bowling, I'll shoot myself. 'But the House match! Leicester's!
Potter made a Hades of a fuss because he said it would injure the sale of the other three, and Padishah, of course, behaved like an idiot; but all of us were very much excited. I can tell you I was precious glad when that dissection was over, and no diamond had turned up precious glad. I'd gone to one-forty on that particular bird myself.
"Of course she is an angel," he reflected, and then, with a grim humor, "or will be before I ask her, if I wait another twenty years! But I shall ask her, I shall ask her!" He stepped toward her boldly, but paused before her in a wordless panic when he had approached within a yard. "Heavens!" he thought. "My heart is going at a one-forty gait and the jockey's lost the reins.
It was just after Number Seventeen had pulled out, westbound, about one-forty in the morning. There wasn't anything else till six-one. Them are always the hardest hours. A fellow's got to stay awake, see, and nothin' to keep him unless maybe a coyote howlin' a mile off, or maybe a bum knockin' around among the box cars on the sidin', or, if it's cold, the stove to tend. That's all.
He gave the impression of one who has lived actively with horses in a sunny climate. Twisting the car sharp round at the gate, he said: "When is young Jon coming?" "To-day." "Is there anything you want for him? I could bring it down on Saturday." "No; but you might come by the same train as Fleur one-forty."
His hand was on the old clerk's shoulder. "Master Harley wull ha' told ye? But I'm na one to neglect me affairs," said Jamie. "Nonsense, nonsense. When is she coming?" Jamie told him. "Why don't you take the one-forty and meet her at Worcester? She may have to go back to-morrow." Jamie started. It was clear he had not thought of this. As they entered the bank, Mr.
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