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"There's a curious critter hunting round for you," he said, "looks most like a low-down played-out Britisher. He's wanting Contractor Lorimer, and won't lie down until he finds him." "Adam Lee of Stoney Clough for a dollar; I've been expecting him," said Harry, with a low whistle. "You needn't go, surveyor. Have you been fascinating any more young damsels, Ralph?
One character, Delobelle, the played-out actor who is still a hero to his pathetic wife and daughter, was constructed on effective lines was a personage worthy of Dickens. The vile heroine, Sidonie, was bad enough to excite disgusted interest, but, as Mr. Henry James pointed out later, she was not effective to the extent her creator doubtless hoped.
He was closing the gap rapidly; and, apparently, Whipple also seemed to be gaining on the almost played-out Nick. They were now within less than a mile of the finish; the last turn would soon be reached, with the gun booming out the fact of their arrival. Hugh girded his loins for a Garrison finish, and gloried in the conviction that he was in trim to do himself credit.
They tell me there's some parts where hell's treated as played-out where our ministers don't like to talk much about it because people don't want to hear about it. Such preachers ought to be put out. They ain't Methodists at all. What we want here, sir, is straight-out, flat-footed hell the burnin' lake o' fire an' brim-stone. Pour it into 'em, hot an' strong. We can't have too much of it.
With an impulsive gesture she invited them all to listen. "I'll tell you what that picture leaves out," she said. "There was an old man in the railroad camp, played-out and useless. The boys were handling him roughly because he'd spoiled their supper rather often, when Clarence Weston stepped in. The old man, you must understand, hadn't a shadow of a claim on him.
It wasn't thirst that brought Grenfell to his end. He had more water than either of us you saw to that and, though it wouldn't have been pleasant, you and I could have held out another day." "What was it then?" asked Weston. "The strain of the journey on a played-out constitution, and, as I think I suggested, the effect of excitement on a diseased heart.
I had M. Francis for my neighbor, and I was obliged to listen to his spiteful remarks against M. Louis, of whom he is jealous because he has such a fine situation in comparison with that he himself holds in his played-out nobleman's household. "He's a parvenu," he said to me in an undertone. "He owes his fortune to his wife, to Madame Paul."
Well, all I can say is that a played-out old claim is a wonderful queer sort of place to come to for to argify at ten o'clock of night, and what's more, my sweet youth, if ever I should 'ave the argifying of yer' and he leered unpleasantly at Harry 'yer won't 'oller in quite such a jolly sort 'o way. And now I'll be saying good-night, for I don't like disturbing of a family party.
Your friend Douglas will have nothing to say. He is already a played-out horse. He won't be able to even whinny in the Senate. And the world and the fullness thereof will be ours." "How about Seward being too radical?" "No, he isn't. Look at what it comes to. Kansas will come in as a free state. The work is already done for that. California came in as a free state.
"It's nothing, mother. I'm only thinking," he said. His thoughts were on something that had occurred shortly before: When he passed the inn a horse dealer had asked him if he would not like to purchase a horse, and had shown him an old nag so weather-beaten that he asked the dealer if he took him for a fool, since he wished to palm off such a played-out beast on him.
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