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Had any lady taken a passage at the last moment? The clerk perpended. Yes; a lady had come by the mail train from London, with no heavy baggage, and had gone on board direct, taking what cabin she could get. A young lady in grey. Quite unprepared. Gave no name. Called away in a hurry. What sort of lady?
But how awkward that Juliet should be married and her husband a Bill Sykes in broad-cloth! Mrs. Glamorys herself gave 'At Homes', every Sunday afternoon, and so, on the morrow, after a sleepless night mitigated by perpended sonnets, the love-sick young tutor presented himself by invitation at the beautiful old house in Hampstead.
Reade perpended. 'Well, he said, 'all you can do is to lie low and trust to luck, as far as I can see. Besides, there's one consolation. This Plunkett business'll make every keeper in the Dingle twice as keen after trespassers. So the pot man won't get a chance of getting the things away. 'Yes, there's something in that, admitted Barrett. 'It's all you can do, said Reade. 'Yes.
"I'd like to give her something," he said. "How much do you think?" Mr. Windlebird perpended. "I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll send my own lawyer to her with say, a thousand pounds not a check, you understand, but one thousand golden sovereigns that he can show her roll about on the table in front of her eyes. That'll console her. It's wonderful, the effect money in the raw has on people."
You'll see these charming bijou volumes in every West End drawing-room, Mr. Knight, in a few weeks. Take my word for it. By the way, will you sign our form of agreement now? So Henry perpended legally on the form of agreement, and, finding nothing in it seriously to offend the legal sense, signed it with due ceremony. 'Can you correct the proofs instantly, if I send them? Mr.
As a student of locomotion" he turned and stared down upon Tilda "I'd like you to tell me how you did it." "Well," she answered, "I felt a bit nervous at startin'. So I walked straight in an' ordered two-penn'orth o' beer an' then it all came out." "Was that so?" He perpended this, and went on, "I remember reading somewhere in Ruskin that the more a man can do his job the more he can't say how.
But how awkward that Juliet should be married and her husband a Bill Sykes in broadcloth! Mrs. Glamorys herself gave "At Homes," every Sunday afternoon, and so, on the morrow, after a sleepless night mitigated by perpended sonnets, the love-sick young tutor presented himself by invitation at the beautiful old house in Hampstead.
The man perpended, and when he replied did so after the style of the late and great Ollendorf. 'Old Inns, he said dreamily, waving a hand down the road by which he had come, 'be over there. 'Yes, yes, I know, said Gethryn. 'Was born at Old Inns, I was, continued the man, warming to his subject. 'Lived there fifty-five years, I have. Yeou go straight down the road an' yeou cam t' Old Inns.
One can never be sure of the canaille." "What does that mean?" Captain Vyell explained. The canaille, he said, were the common folk, whose part in this world was to be ruled. Dick perpended. He found this exceedingly interesting the more so because it came, though in a curiously different way, to much the same as Miss Quiney had taught him out of the catechism.
Strike me if it ain't. I'm just tryin' to find out where he goes when he's off duty. He pinched me, so I'm layin' for him." Mr. Marks perpended. Rabbit Butler respectfully gave it as his opinion that it would be well to put Mr. Buffin through it. There was nothing like being on the safe side. By putting Mr. Buffin through it, argued Rabbit Butler, they would stand to win either way.
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