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Would you work for a lady who loved you if she gave herself to you?" "I would work for my wife," said the Tenor. "Are you engaged?" the Boy asked. There seemed no limit to his capacity for asking. The Tenor shook his head, and shook the ashes out of his pipe at the same time. "Are you in love?" the Boy persisted.
Risler listened, puffing at his pipe, afraid to stir, for the reader looked at him every moment over his eyeglasses, to watch the effect of his phrases. Unfortunately, right in the middle of the prospectus, the cafe closed. The lights were extinguished; they must go. And the estimates? It was agreed that they should read them as they walked along. They stopped at every gaslight.
'I'm afraid I'm too big and too fat and too fond of my pipe and my glass of whisky to care much about carnations.
"I don't believe I have ever given it much actual thought," he said. "I never viewed it as any of my affair. But I haven't forgotten the last time we talked the plans over, that you couldn't go into it to lose." Punctiliously Elliott proffered a lighted match for the other's filled pipe; he lighted a long and thin and very black cigar for himself.
I never did see such prime company as that 'ere boy; he'll be the death of me, I know he will. Master Charley Bates, having laughed heartily again, resumed his pipe with tears in his eyes. 'You've been brought up bad, said the Dodger, surveying his boots with much satisfaction when Oliver had polished them.
Between acts, Banneker, walking out to get air, was conscious of being the object of comment and demonstration. He heard his name spoken in half whispers; saw nods and jerks of the head; was an involuntary eavesdropper upon a heated discussion; "That's the man." "No; it ain't. The paper says he's a big feller." "This guy ain't a reporter. Pipe his clothes." "Well, he's big if you size him right.
Well, thought I, as I stepped to the corner for some coal, if I was afraid of this creature when he was dead, to what condition of mind shall I be reduced by his being alive? When his pipe was out he rose and made several strides about the cook-room, then took the lanthorn, and entering the cabin stood awhile surveying the place. "So this would have been my coffin but for you, Mr.
Stepping over Ambrose he crossed to the mantel, where he fumbled for matches, and striking one made believe to relight his pipe. Now Ambrose knew that Strange had matches, for when they took John Gaviller up he had seen him light the lamp at the foot of the stairs and return the box to his pocket. This then must be a reconnoitering expedition.
He set up his fratching at breakfast acause his porridge was burnt, and kept at it all day. Nowt that I did for him were reet; if I filled his pipe, he said I'd putten salt in his baccy, and if I went out to feed the cauves, he told me I left the doors oppen, and wanted to give him his death o' cowd. Evening came at last, and by nine o'clock I were left alone i' the kitchen.
These testimonies I think are enough; and reason confirms Plato's opinion by arguments drawn first from sense. For when the windpipe is wounded, no drink will go down; but as if the pipe were broken it runs out, though the weasand be whole and unhurt.
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