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"What a mean expression about the mouth!" "Isn't it 'orrible?" "Who is it?" asked one of them, addressing Mr. Powers. "That is a portrait of my wife," said the artist modestly. "Your wife!" repeated one of the women, and then, nothing abashed, added, "Who are you?" "My name is Powers, madam," he answered very politely.
In the mess hall there were soldiers from an assortment of units, some being new intake; at one mealtime the Orderly Officer accompanied by the Orderly Sergeant arrived. The Orderly Sergeant yelled out, "Any complaints?" "Yes." came a voice. The pair approached the voice and the officer asked, "Yes, my man and what is your complaint?" "This tea." "What's the matter with it?" "It's 'orrible."
Wot you goin' to call it, if it's a boy?" "John, of course!" said Eleanor. "Um-m-m. Well, I suppose you'll 'ave to, after 'is father, but if I 'ad a son I'd call 'im Perceval. I dunno why! I just would. It sounds nice some'ow. I mean it 'as a nice sound. Only people 'ud call 'im Perce, of course, an' that would be 'orrible. I dessay you're right.
"It's only me," said Tommy with an involuntary laugh. "Hold on, I'll set you free in no time." "Hah!" coughed Coleman when the kerchief was removed from his mouth, "wot a 'orrible sensation it is to be choked alive!" "It would be worse to be choked dead," said Tommy. "Cut the lines at my feet first, lad," said Coleman, "they've a'most sawed through my ankle bones.
She realized with a sharp pang of concern what Pegler's mental defection would mean to her. It would be dreadful, dreadful, if Pegler began seeing ghosts, and turning hysterical. "What was the spirit like?" she asked quietly. And then, all at once, she had to suppress a violent inclination to burst out laughing. For Pegler answered with a kind of cry, "A 'orrible happarition, ma'am!"
"That Jemmy Green is my absolute abhorrence," observed a third. "'Orrible man, with his nasty vig," observed the mamma of the first speaker "shouldn't have my darter not at no price." Green, however, headed the poll, having beat the Sunflower, and had still two lots in reserve.
You're doing yourself harm. You ought to sleep." "I don't want to I can't. It is 'orrible to lie awake in ze dark and And you, too, Monsieur Robert, you don't feel you sleep much to-night, hein?" "No." "Alors 'ere we are two poor fellows shipwrecked we make a leetle feast together a feast of good stories. You say you don't like me ver' much. But that is ridicule now.
''Orrible hand-to-hand struggle with a desperado. Brave constable has 'arf a quid's worth out of an infuriated ruffin! My hat! won't your missis be proud when you take her to see that bloomin' film?" "Move on, now, move on!" said Collins, recovering his dignity, and asserting it with a vim. "Look here, cabby, I don't take it kind of you to laugh like that; they had you just as bad as they had me.
"Dreaming!" ses pore Bill, catching hold of her 'and and gripping it till she nearly screamed. "I wish I was. Can't you see it?" "See it?" ses his wife. "See wot?" "The ghost," ses Bill, in a 'orrible whisper; "the ghost of my dear, kind old pal, Silas Winch. The best and noblest pal a man ever 'ad. The kindest-'arted " "Rubbish," ses Mrs. Burtenshaw. "You've been dreaming.
"Well?" asked Carter bending down from his saddle. "May I go too, sir? Just as groom, sir. Please, sir?" he added, seeing a shade of dissent upon his master's face. "The truth is, sir, I 'ad a bad dream last night. Don't laugh," he pleaded as the corners of Carter's mouth twitched suggestively, "don't laugh. It was too real, too 'orrible.
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