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"Then," Christophe went on, "you know that I am not here for fun. I have had to fly. I have nothing. I must live." Diener was waiting for that, for the request. "Ah!" he said pompously. "It is very tiresome, very tiresome. Life here is hard. Everything is so dear. We have enormous expenses. And all these assistants..." Christophe cut him short contemptuously: "I am not asking you for money."
"You were the second arrival, then?" "Yes. I parked my car along the curb in front of the house," Tracey answered readily. "And I came right on in, and Nita jumped up " "Yes. We've had all that twice before," Dundee interrupted cruelly. "Now, Judge Marshall " "One of my friends gave me a lift from town," Judge Marshall volunteered pompously. "Chap named Sampson.
A representative of the mixed society, who was putting its claims before me, unconsciously helped me to make up my mind. "Women," he pompously assured me, "need to be associated with men, because they don't know how to manage meetings." On the instant the needle of decision swung around to the women's society and remained there, fixed.
"We must carry him to that farmhouse, and get a cart for him." He helped carry him accordingly. The farmer lent them a cart, with straw, and they laid the insensible baronet gently on it, Richard Bassett supporting his head. "Gentlemen," said he, rather pompously, "at such a moment everything but the tie of kindred is forgotten."
Every man on the street had a copy of the next day's Bulletin within twenty minutes of issue. A roar of delight went up. Jones's visit was reported simply as an item of news, faithfully, sarcastically, and pompously. There was no comment. Even the most faithful partisans of Palmer, Cook & Co. had to grin at the effectiveness of this new way of meeting the impact of such a visit,
At first he pompously styled him master, but after a few words he called him by name with disconcerting familiarity. He moved about the studio as if it were his own, as if he had spent his whole life in it, indifferent to its beautiful decorations. It would not be any trouble for him to undertake the preparation of a speech. That was his specialty.
Stuckup marched on very pompously; Ole Man Pumpkin bumped along just in front; the two Corn Soldiers marched by his side; and a lot of others pricked him from behind with their sharp, cruel spears. What were they going to do with him? That was the question. He was soon to know, for they had reached the edge of the Pond. "Duck him!" shouted the Little Red Apples in glee.
Bickering Dundee grinned to himself exactly as if they had known each other always, had quarreled and made up with fierce intensity for years. "Really, Mr. Dundee," Judge Hugo Marshall began pompously, embracing his young wife protectingly, "I must say that I agree with Miss Crain.
While patriotic considerations might set bounds to criticism in reference to the native chronicles, Lucilius at any rate directed very pointed shafts against "the dismal figures from the complicated expositions of Pacuvius"; and similar severe, but not unjust criticisms of Ennius, Plautus, Pacuvius all those poets "who appeared to have a licence to talk pompously and to reason illogically" are found in the polished author of the Rhetoric dedicated to Herennius, written at the close of this period.
"I regret very much," went on Murray pompously, "to find you in this position, and if there's anything I can do that is just and right I shall be glad to use my influence. We have, as you know, here in the State of Arizona one of the most enlightened governments in the country; and a word from me, if spoken in time, might possibly save you from conviction.
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