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'Well but what is it? repeated Sponge, appealing to Pacey, who stood as pale as ashes. 'Oh! nothing, replied he; 'quite a mistake; Mr. Spraggon misunderstood me altogether. 'Mistake! There's no mistake in the matter! exclaimed Jack, appearing again on the surface like an otter; 'you gave me the lie as plain as a pikestaff. 'Indeed! observed Mr.
Well, well, these constables must see to the removal of the body, and we must let my friend the coroner know he will hold the inquest tomorrow, no doubt. Quite a mere formality, my dear sir! the whole thing is as plain as a pikestaff. It will be a relief to know that the mystery is now satisfactorily solved." Outside in the welcome freshness, Copplestone turned to the doctor.
'Why, then, ye needn't tell me ye're a savidge: it's as plain as a pikestaff. What'll I do with this stick, did ye say, ma'am? Oh, surra bit o' me knows a word she's sayin', though it's mighty like the Irish of a Connaught man. I wondher what it is she's tryin' to make; it resimbles the beginnin' of a big basket at present, an' meself standin' in the inside of the bottom.
"No, sir plain as a pikestaff!" returned Petrie importantly, for he felt the burden of responsibility and hoped that this would mean promotion. Dollops, who was by no means a regular member of the force, simply looked at Cleek with considerable pride fighting through the natural horror that the find had given birth to. "Funny thing!" broke in Cleek at this juncture.
Two lives hung at issue in the balance while the jury deliberated. Elma Clifford, glancing with a terrified eye from one to the other, could hardly help pitying the guiltiest most. His look of mute suffering was so inexpressibly pathetic. The twelve good men and true were gone for a full half-hour. Why, nobody knew. The case was as plain as a pikestaff, gossipers said in court.
But that was my impression though that she wasn't just the sort of woman for old Sabre. But after all, what the dickens sort of woman would be? Fiddling chap for a husband, old Puzzlehead. Can imagine him riling any wife with wrinkling up his nut over some plain as a pikestaff thing and saying, 'Well, I don't quite see that. Ha! Rum chap. Nice chap. Have a drink?"
I flew out, and shrapnel tore all around me. My machine was struck several times, and, as bad luck would have it, the patent point of my magneto fell out just when I got to the spot where shrapnel was thickest. "My chances of getting home then seemed pretty slim engines out of order, lit up by fireworks, up 2,500 feet, and a target clear as a pikestaff for the gunnery.
"No shadow of any engagement at all," he said. "I made it plain as a pikestaff to them both. It mustn't be thought I countenanced their crack-brained troth-plighting. 'T was by reason of my final 'Nay' that Will went off. He 's gone out of her life, and she 'm free as the air.
She laughed easily, mockingly, although she saw plainly the pikestaff of a Lackaday upright a few yards away from her, in a rigid attitude of parade. "Anyhow," she said, "I must go and say how d'ye do to the General." I gave way to her. We walked side by side to the table. She advanced to him in the most unconcerned manner. Bakkus rose politely. "My dear General, fancy seeing you here!
I am bringing my niece out here as my housekeeper and companion, and not as a prospective wife for any of you youngsters. I hope she will turn out to be as plain as a pikestaff, and then I may have some hopes of keeping her with me for a time.
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