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He waved his hand oratorically as he spoke, and tipped the ink-bottle off the arm of the chair. "There," said the Major, "I knew you'd do that." "Never mind," said Meldon. "I have a pencil in my pocket. I'll work with it." The Major seized the blotting-paper from his writing-table and went down on his knees on the carpet.
Whose is that big place up there across our bows? The one with the cupola on the main truck?" "That, sir," said Mr. Lumley, oratorically, "belongs to the Honorable Heman G. Atkins, and it's probably the finest in this county. Heman is our representative in Washin'ton, and Did you say anything?" The passenger had said something, but he did not repeat it.
"Friends, Romans, and countrymen!" say I, on that same afternoon, strutting into the school-room, with my left hand thrust oratorically into the breast of my frock, and my right loftily waving, "I wish to collect your suffrages on a certain subject.
You got to learn to listen." He stepped forward, remembered and turned back into the cabin. There was womanish solicitude in the scrutiny he bent upon Garry Devereau's crookedly smiling face. "You and me was ordained to be friends," he declared oratorically, "because anybody that Steve O'Mara calls friend is good enough for me.
The single waiting-room of the little hotel gave upon the veranda, which was also level with the street. After a brief yet gallant interview, in which he oratorically expressed the gratitude of the settlement with old-fashioned Southern courtesy, Colonel Starbottle lifted the chubby little hand of the "Pet" to his lips, and, with a low bow, backed out upon the veranda.
She pulled the unlucky Harbison man through the door and closed it, and then stood glaring at both of us. "Every little quarrel is an apple knocked from the tree of love," she announced oratorically. "This was a very little quarrel," Jim said, edging toward the door; "a a green apple, Aunt Selina, a colicky little green apple." But she was not to be diverted.
Be fair, young people; remember these words, he paused, lifted his hand oratorically and then made his statement with an unusually deep gravity, 'Every one, though appearing guilty, must be given an opportunity to prove himself innocent. That's it and that's fair: the opportunity to prove his innocence. He emphasized the words in repeating them. 'That's all that I ask now.
"Wilson," he said oratorically, "this is my flag, and your flag, and it is now Mrs. Wilson's flag, for I've made her as good an American as the pair of us. Take it along with you, and if you have children, bring them up to love and honor Old Glory as we do, and teach them at your knee what it stands for freedom, justice; and equal rights for every man born under it.
"But this same sense of justice," continued Carteret oratorically, "which would lead you to visit swift and terrible punishment upon the guilty, would not permit you to slay an innocent man. Even a negro, as long as he behaves himself and keeps in his place, is entitled to the protection of the law.
To complete the confusion of his appearance, he was called "Senor" Perkins, for no other reason, apparently, than his occasional, but masterful, use of the Spanish vernacular. Steadying himself by one of the quarter stanchions, he waved his right hand oratorically towards the sinking coast. "Look at it, sir.
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