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Updated: May 9, 2025
"Here are books," said the Doctor, "and the evening papers, 'Picayune, 'Delta, 'True Delta." It seemed for a moment as though the gentleman might sink into his seat again. "And there's the 'New York Herald." "No, sir!" said the visitor quickly, rising and smoothing himself out; "nothing from that quarter, if you please." Yet he smiled.
"Who knows?" resumed Galahad, when those who understood English had explained in Spanish to those who did not, "but they may soon need the services not only of our good doctor heer, but of our society; and that Fernandez and Benigno, and Gonzalez and Dominguez, may not be chosen to see, on that very schooner lying at the Picayune Tier just now, their beloved remains and so forth safely delivered into the hands and lands of their people.
All that I had done was to walk along their sidewalk and gaze at their picayune waterfall. And what crime was there in that? Technically I was guilty of no misdemeanor. All right, I'd show them when I got out. The next day I talked with a guard. I wanted to send for a lawyer. The guard laughed at me. So did the other guards. I really was incommunicado so far as the outside world was concerned.
"Picayune Butler's coming, coming" has upset my nervous system. He interrupted me in the middle of my arithmetic; and I have not the energy to resume my studies. I shall try what effect an hour's practice will have on my spirits, and will see that I have a pair of clean stockings in my stampede sack, and that the fastenings of my "running-bag" are safe.
For three hours earlier he had read a close paraphrase of it in a copy of the Tomb City Picayune which he had bought at that city. The train ran slower and slower, and out on to a shallow embankment. "Do you think we shall ever get anywhere?" queried the lady. "Not when we expect to, Ma'am," said Saterlee.
I accept your advice. Alphonsina!" "Momselle!" The answer came from the kitchen. "Come go or, rather, vini 'ci courri dans boutique de l'apothecaire. Clotilde," she continued, in better French, holding up the coin to view, "look!" "What?" "The last picayune we have in the world ha, ha, ha!"
Don't you see?" "Kind of stale and picayune, Steele, it strikes me," says I. "Course, you're the doctor. If you'd rather see all them other folks that you dislike come in for a hundred and fifty thousand apiece, with no rakeoff for you why, that's your business. But I'd think it over." "Ye-e-es," says he draggy. "I I suppose I must."
"I hate like the mischief to put such things down on paper," wrote the boy, "but I said I'd tell the whole thing and I will, even if it does come out hard, so you will know it isn't any worse than it is. It is bad enough I'll admit, I hadn't any business to make fool love to her when I really didn't care a picayune.
Suddenly, a trembling hand was laid on Guly's arm, and a supplicating voice murmured humbly: "Un picayune, Monsieur; in pity, Monsieur, one picayune to buy me bread." By the light of a street lamp, Guly saw a pale and wrinkled face, in which deep lines of grief or misfortune were deeply traced, raised pleadingly toward him.
"In the meantime, dear, you shall " But still Flora persisted: "Any day, any hour, Captain Kincaid may return. Oh, if 'twere anybody in this worl' but him! For, Anna, I must take all the blame all!" The face went again into the hands. "My dear, you shall take none. You shall hand him every dollar, every picayune, on sight." "Ah, how is that possible? Oh, no, no, no. Use your money?
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