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She had such immense gravity, such intensity over her one-syllable statements of fact. She announced this decision and sat down. "Woman's work?" he asked her, smiling quizzically. "No, sir," with her own rare smile; "I ain't rightly fitted for that." "Certainly not in those clothes," he murmured crossly, for she was dressed again in her own things. "I'm a-goin' to do man's work.
"He never had a sister in his life!" nodded her escort, cheerfully. "I'm afraid, Mr. Smith," Helen said as they regained the top floor, "that I don't really understand the first principles of fire insurance well enough to appreciate what you have shown me. It's a humiliating admission, but I must make it. I don't believe you began near enough the bottom with the elementary, one-syllable things."
Still you've got the nerve to think that you can get them with ordinary gunmen! I've drawn you diagrams and shown you figures I've told you in great detail and in one-syllable words exactly what we're up against. Now I tell you again that they've got something.
Must have been an hour later before he comes out and I goes into the private office to find Mr. Robert with his chin on his wishbone and his brow furrowed up. "Well, I take it the one-syllable champion broke the sad news to you!" says I. "Yes, he wants to quit," says Mr. Robert. "Means to devote all his time to breakin' the long distance no-speech record, does he?" I asks.
"From being shattered and destroyed owing to the intense activity of the vibrations conveyed to our ultimate physical atoms," was the whispered reply, as the clergyman proceeded to give him under his breath a one-syllable sound that was unlike any word he knew, and that for the life of him he has never been able to reproduce since. Mr.
"You are mistaken, friend d'Artagnan," said Aramis, always on his guard; "this is from my publisher, who has just sent me the price of that poem in one-syllable verse which I began yonder." "Ah, indeed," said d'Artagnan. "Well, your publisher is very generous, my dear Aramis, that's all I can say." "How, monsieur?" cried Bazin, "a poem sell so dear as that! It is incredible!
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