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Updated: June 14, 2025
'I think I'll have some tea and toast, she says, casual-like, jest as if she'd been callin' fer victuals ev'ry day fer a month past. An' when I brought it, if she didn't drag herself up in bed an' call fer a piller to her back, so's she could set up. An' there she stayed, pantin' an' gaspin', but <i>settin' up</i> an' she stayed there till the toast an' tea was gone." "Gosh!" groaned Jim.
She was coming to borrow he was as sure of that as though she already had asked, and if any further confirmation were needed, her unnatural gayety when he admitted her and the shortness of her breath finished that. It availed Mrs. Toomey nothing to tell herself that Mrs. Pantin was her best friend, and that what she was asking was merely a matter of business the sort of thing that Mr.
I believe in makin' preparations ahead; I believe in takin' time by the forelock and leadin' it along peaceable and stiddy by my side, instead of time's drivin' me, rough shod and pantin' for breath over a household path, rocky and rough with belated duties.
France, after Italy, appeared in the language of the latter country poco simpatica; and I thought it necessary, for reasons now inconceivable, to read the Figaro, which was filled with descriptions of the horrible Troppmann, the murderer of the famille Kink. Troppmann, Kink, le crime de Pantin the very names that figured in this episode seemed to wave me back.
"Perfectly," replied Mr. Pantin, calmly. "I've passed the stage when I talk to make conversation." "But think how she's been criticised!" Mr. Pantin got up impatiently. "Oh, you virtuous dames " Mrs. Pantin's thin lips went shut like a rat-trap. "Abram, are you twitting me?" Mr. Pantin ignored the accusation, and observed astutely: "I presume you've done your share of talking, and that's why "
"Whiz! a stone of chalk went by them with a skirl, and slapped into the rubble below. "'Some more of St. Dunstan's gravel! cried Dignum, pantin' out a reckless laugh under his load; and on they went again. "Hwish! a bigger lump came like a thunderbolt, and the wind of it took the bloody smuggler's hat and sent it swooping into the darkness like a bird.
He would get me and Philury pantin' for breath in the house, and then go out with calmness and strength to fatigue his uncle Josiah and Ury nearly unto death. But they loved him, and so did I, with a deep, pantin', tired-out affection. We loved him better and better as the days rolled by: the tireder we got with him seemin'ly, the more we loved him.
The proprietor also said "Pantin" as he might have said "Timbuctoo," and advised me to take the steam-tram which starts from behind the Opéra, to let that carry me as far as it would, and then, arrived in those distant regions, either to find a cab or to walk the remainder of the distance. So, armed, I issued forth, and drove to the tram, and placed myself on the top of the tram.
An' jus' then a man opened a door to come out of a place as had a great sign up, an' in the light as come out with him, he caught sight of us. "'Haven't you no place to go fer shelter, my poor woman? he says, for I was kinder breathless, an' pantin', fer the darlin' an' the bundle was a weight to carry. But I was that tired out, I couldn't say nothin' but jus' begin to cry.
"She must have made some new friends," said Katy. "About four o'clock, the biggest car that ever roared down this street rolled up, and the biggest man and woman that I ever see came puffin' and pantin' in. Miss Eileen did not tell me where she was goin' or when she would be back, but I know it won't be the night, because she took her little dressin' case with her.
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