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King Agrippa third! At the half! Sir Galahad first, Panchito second, King Agrippa third! At the three-quarter pole! King Agrippa first, Panchito second, Polly P. third. Galahad's out of it. Polly P's making her spurt, but she can't last. Into the stretch with Panchito on the rail and coming like he'd been sent for and delayed. Oh, Lord, Jim, that's a horse and we thought he was a goat!
"So that I may quarrel with her, which I certainly should do or, rather, she with me. No, Archie; if you're afraid to go alone, you'd better give it up." "Afraid! I'm not afraid!" "She can't eat you. Remember that with her you needn't stand on your p's and q's, as you would with another woman.
He is simply told, in answer to his expostulations, that "the cook doesn't like p's." One player is sent from the room. The others decide upon something for him to do, but he is not told what it is, though he is helped by a noise of some kind on metal, or on a musical instrument. When he is near an object with which he is to perform some feat, the noise is loud.
She would be glad to get a minister, though, to the hoose, an' so I warrant the lad Wilkie 'll be to bide a' nicht at the lawyer's." "But what would Chirsty be doin' gettin' the chintz an' the fender in that case?" "Ou, she'd been expeckin' the lad, of course. Sal, she'll be in a michty tantrum aboot this. I wouldna wonder though she gets Sam'l to gang ower to the U. P's."
Dodd, with an air of nonchalance, replied to the effect that Dr. Sampson was not her offspring, and so she was not bound to correct his eccentricities. "And I suppose," said she, languidly, "we must accept these extraordinary people as we find them. But that is no reason why you should say 'P's and Q's, darling." That day her hospitable board was spread over a trap.
"P.P.? That means P's, I suppose." "It means that, and more. P. for Pelham, and P. for peas. If they get one right, they can't very well get the other wrong." "That's true," answered Shuffles, silenced, rather than convinced, by the tactics of his fellow-conspirator. It was settled that he who knew peas must certainly "know beans." "When shall the fellows vote?" asked Shuffles.
Sentiment and humor do not lie so near the surface in Hawthorne as in Irving. He had a deep sense of the ridiculous, well shown in such sketches as "P's Correspondence" and "The Celestial Railroad"; or in the description of the absurd old chickens in the Pyncheon yard, shrunk by in-breeding to a weazened race, but retaining all their top-knotted pride of lineage.
Then, as a bright idea suggested itself to the old gentleman, he added: "I tell you what, just cut one or two at first; that'll give you a name for being particular, which is just the thing." Accordingly, with no definite idea as to what was expected of him, except that he was to find out "whether a girl knew her P's and Q's," and was also to "cut one or two of the first candidates," Dr.
He sent for her to the library, and he there informed her that he hoped very much that, as regarded this affair of Catherine's, she would mind her p's and q's. "I don't know what you mean by such an expression," said his sister. "You speak as if I were learning the alphabet." "The alphabet of common sense is something you will never learn," the Doctor permitted himself to respond.
He could not write sublime verse himself, but he could tell others how. So Miss Barrett showed her poems to Mr. Kenyon, and Mr. Kenyon advised that the P's be made bolder and the tails to the Q's be lengthened. He also bought her a new kind of manuscript paper, over which a quill pen would glide with glee: it was the kind Byron used. But best of all, Mr.
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