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He undoubtedly was what her mother called "a queer dick," but also "a pippin with a perfect core," which was her way of saying that he was a man to be trusted with herself and with her daughter; one who would stand loyally by a friend or a woman.
He had grown grey in the service of the company. Mr. Scorrier would bear him out when he said he had a position to maintain his name in the City was a high one; and, by George! he was going to keep it a high one; he would allow nobody to drag it in the dust that ought clearly to be understood. "If there were no London office," murmured Pippin, "the shareholders would get the same dividends."
Let's look squarely at the facts. You admire the girl?" "Who wouldn't? A pippin, every inch of her." "You're broke?" "Well er " "You were fired from your last job. You're in wrong with the police. You adopted a disguise and told lies about Winifred to those who would employ her.
It is probable that his courage and confidence would have been far less than they appear at present, had not Pippin assured him that the regulators were no longer to be feared; that the judge had arrived; that the grand-jury had found bills against several of the offenders, and were still engaged in their labors; that a detachment of the state military had been ordered to the station; and that things looked as civil as it was altogether possible for such warlike exhibition to allow.
Turner the same Terrible Turner who had been willing enough for combat earlier in the morning confessed with a grin that he was pretty glad Teeny-bits hadn't wrestled with him! "If I'd hit the floor as hard as Bassett did, I'd bet my backbone would have been broken into forty pieces," he said. "Oh, what a pippin of a thump!" Teeny-bits liked Turner's frank, outspoken way.
An older man was taken out next; he too was smiling there had been vouchsafed to him, it seemed, a taste of more than earthly joy. The sight of those strange smiles affected Scorrier more than all the anguish or despair he had seen scored on the faces of other dead men. He asked an old miner how long Pippin had been at work. "Thirty hours.
Inside is nothing but a picture, one of these dinky portraits on ivory mini'tures, ain't they? It shows a young lady with a perky chin and kind of a quizzin' look in her eyes: not a reg'lar front row pippin', you know, but a fairly good looker of the highbrow type. For a second Mr.
"If you have been thus assaulted, young man, and I am not disposed to say it is not as you assert, it can not have been by any of our village, unless it be that Counsellor Pippin and his fellow Hob were the persons: they were down, now I recollect, at the Catcheta pass, somewhere about the time; and I've long suspected Pippin to be more dangerous than people think him." "I deny it all I deny it.
Now there's James Morris, Penyrhaul, he's a famous grafter, too, and yet them Redstreaks he grafted for me five year ago, they be all swollen-like below the graft already. Would you like to taste a Blemmin pippin, now, Master Lucian? there be a few left in the loft, I believe."
Barring the possibilities of future avatars, I shall not promenade there again. But I would give a red pippin, I would give two of them, to have been in Potsdam on that night, that cloudless night, the night in July, when in a room, gorgeous as only vulgarity could made it, there was sounded the crack of doom." Jones gestured and a waiter hurried to him. He motioned him away.
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