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Also, the ten acres have come pretty close to paying for the whole twenty, as well as for this house, and all the outbuildings, and all the pedigreed stock." Saxon remembered what the young lineman had said about the Portuguese. "The ten acres didn't do a bit of it," she cried. "It was your head that did it all, and you know it." "And that's the point, my dear.
Her reply began with a hint of forlornness that vanished with her smile, as she warned: "You will play ducks and drakes with the house-boys' names." "I never do it with pedigreed stock," he assured her with a solemnity belied by the challenging twinkle in his eyes. "I didn't mean that," was her retort. "I meant that you were exhausting the possibilities of the language.
Budlong and wept, declaring that she had resolved to give the murderous terrier away to a farmer, and had already sent to Chicago for a pedigreed Angora to replace the Maltese. It would arrive the day before Christmas. As if that were not enough for one day, in the afternoon Johnetta Ackerley called. She saw Mrs. Budlong at an upper window and waved to her as she came along the walk.
In such a case, and with a constantly growing popular realisation that the directorate and responsible enemy in the war is the Imperial dynasty and its pedigreed aids and abettors, it is conceivable that the popular resentment would converge so effectually on these responsible instigators and directors of misfortune as to bring the incidence of the required retribution effectually to bear on them.
And such was her hypnotic power, or my adaptability, that in the atmosphere of Runnymede I became a Conservative of the good old type, and actually enjoyed the communion of soul necessarily subsisting between a pedigreed lady and a pedigreed gentleman.
There's no Indians in the South, I tell him, 'except Elks, Maccabees, and the buyers for the fall dry-goods trade. The Indians are all on the reservations, says I. "'I'm telling you this with reservations, says he. 'They ain't Buffalo Bill Indians; they're squattier and more pedigreed. They call 'em Inkers and Aspics, and they was old inhabitants when Mazuma was King of Mexico.
From a pedigreed yellow pup I grew up to be an anonymous yellow cur looking like a cross between an Angora cat and a box of lemons. But my mistress never tumbled. She thought that the two primeval pups that Noah chased into the ark were but a collateral branch of my ancestors. It took two policemen to keep her from entering me at the Madison Square Garden for the Siberian bloodhound prize.
"I wonder what some of my pedigreed million-dollar friend's sons would think of that? Well, go on." "Why, that's all," laughed Michael happily. "I studied it and I want to try it and see what I can do with it. I want to buy a farm." "How would you manage to be a farmer and a lawyer both?" "Well, I thought there might he a little time after hours to work, and I could tell others how "
Pryor's fancy, pedigreed horses in shape for market, taking them personally, and selling them to men fit to own and handle real horses. I get one hundred each, and my expenses for the job. I'll have as much fun doing it as I ever had at anything. It suits me far better than plowing, even." Mother entered the room at a sweep, and pushed Leon aside. "Oh you man of my heart!" she cried.
Old Howland called Bill until his early career as a pedlar and keeper of a Cheap Jack bazaar was forgotten and who, after the great fire, which wiped out so many pasts and purified and pedigreed Chicago's present aristocracy, called himself William G. Howland, merchant prince, had, in his ideal character for a wealth-chaser, one weakness a doting fondness for his daughter.
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