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"Make yourselves comfortable, gentlemen," said he; "you practically own the ship till we get to Guaymas. There we pick up some Mexican families going to 'Frisco, and two mighty pretty girls."
Pick up your skirts and do it as you are, if you really want a job." There was just a faint edge of contempt in that last phrase and, mercifully, it roused her anger. A blaze kindled in her blue eyes, and two spots of vivid color defined themselves in her cheeks.
She'd have come back when she found out they were gone. I wonder whether Jimmy finished the soup? I wonder what he's done with the Primus stove. It wasn't mine, and I know Professor Wilder sets a value on it. Perhaps they'll pick it up on their way and return it. If they do I shan't so much mind what happens to us." "I don't think they'll really leave us here," said Frank.
And this is for your hatpins; and look at this pin-cushion. I had the loveliest time picking them out." Drusilla looked at the pretty things in amazement rather mixed with awe. "Why, what'll I do with all them things?" "Oh, you'll use them all. There isn't one too many, and perhaps I've forgotten some things. If I have, we will go and pick them out together.
She accordingly invited the three young ladies, with their mother, to visit her court, that her son might, after a careful scrutiny, take his pick. The brilliance of the prospective match with the tzar of all the Russias outweighed every scruple, and the invitation was eagerly accepted.
Some of the less sophisticated robots might pick up some chance phrase of conversation and interpret it as an order if left on audio. "Ben," said Betty, getting up to meet him, "you're late." Ben was too good a salesman to argue that. Instead, he took her in his arms and kissed her.
Before returning to the city, we made a détour in order to visit the chapel of La Mère-Dieu. As it is usually closed, our guide summoned the custodian, and the latter accompanied us with his little niece, who stopped along the road to pick flowers. The young man walked in front of us.
‘If you wish the pick of mankind, take a good bachelor and a good wife.’ ‘There is probably no other act in a man’s life so hot-headed and foolish as this of marriage.’ R. L. STEVENSON. ‘Whatever may be said against marriage, it is certainly an experience.’ OSCAR WILDE.
She could carry as heavy a load as any of the men with whom she had to compete, and she was so civil and so well-behaved and so free from the use of profane language, that employers unaware of her sex used to pick her out in preference to others who offered themselves. The years went by, and her little son was growing up to be a fine young man.
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