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"And as the look of the place isn't altogether over-pleasant, shure you'll be willing to start away again up the river, without spending any time down here?" Uncle Denis said he should be ready to commence our voyage the following day but one, as he hoped by that time to have got through some business he had to transact at Cervanos; on hearing which Tim expressed his satisfaction.
"Not if a man's head be steady and his hand firm; but he must have both, and a stout heart to guide them, or the journey is not over-pleasant. Art thou cool enough in time of peril to remember what has been told thee for thy guidance?" "Yes; I hope I can promise so much." "Then thou art all safe; so eat away, and leave the rest to me."
Nay, the Director's room itself they would invade while still licking their lips, and since their breath was not over-aromatic, the atmosphere of the room grew not over-pleasant.
Suppose I gave you the job of collecting my rents down east." "Weekly rents?" "Weekly. It's a rough quarter, and they're a shady lot of customers. You wouldn't find the job over-pleasant, but you might try, eh?" "What would it bring me in, to go at once to the point?" "The rents average twenty-five pounds. Your commission would be seven per cent.
NOTWITHSTANDING that, as yet, Dimitri's influence had kept me from indulging in those customary students' festivities known as kutezhi or "wines," that winter saw me participate in such a function, and carry away with me a not over-pleasant impression of it. This is how it came about.
"Well, I'm tellin' ye they'll get ye sure it'll be th' water or a forty-four bullet, or a blackjack or a knife but you'll get it one way or another!" "Sounds cheering!" "An' it ain't over-pleasant t' be sandbagged." "No, Spider." "Nor t' feel a lead pipe wrapped round th' back o' y'r bean." "No indeed, Spider." "Nor yet t' feel a stiletta diggin' between y'r shoulders or over y'r collar bone."
"We must now secure the venison," cried the doctor, leading the way down the precipitous side of the valley. Tim and I followed him, Candela soon afterwards joining us; and we were quickly engaged in the not over-pleasant operation of cutting up the deer and skinning the pumas.
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