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"Please do not shoot your gun except as a last resort," she added, "for I do not wish to be cruel or to shed any blood unless it is absolutely necessary." "All right," replied Tik-Tok; "but I do not think Rug-ge-do would bleed if I filled him full of holes and put him in a ci-der press."
That was too significant at once, and too commonplace; besides, it might wither, and he find an excuse for not restoring it. It must be something valuable, stately, formal, which he must needs return. And she drew off a diamond hoop, and put it quietly into his hand. "You promise to return if?" "I promised long ago." He took it, and lifted it she thought that he was going to press it to his lips.
It was his afternoon at home to press agents, and he always gave them till five-thirty to drop in. But he didn't think there were likely to be any more to-day, and if Rodney would come over ...
Why was it that, so often, when absent from him, her imagination helped her to make excuses for him, inspired her to press the real truth out of sight, and to make believe that he was worthy of a love which, but through some inner fault of her own, might be his altogether, and all the love of which he was capable might be hers?
He immediately took them inside the house and in another minute had thrust into Andy's eager hands a discolored piece of silk, such as is used in the making of balloons. Nor did either Frank or the Colombian planter think it strange that the boy should press the token again and again to his lips, while tears ran down his face.
Peppermore, she says, more wheedlingly than ever, 'was that, if it lay in your power, and if occasion arises, you would do what you could to keep my name out of it I don't want publicity! Um!" concluded Peppermore. "Pretty woman, Mr. Brent, and with taking ways, but of course I had to be adamant, sir firm, Mr. Brent, firm as St. Hathelswide's tower. 'The Press, Mrs.
From the outset the Evening Press had championed the cause of the old crowd the state-house ring as the enemy called it, when they didn't call it something worse.
And I submit the answer is the Press. For while the legal profession is naturally homogeneous, the Press is by nature heterogeneous.
Tying his handkerchief above the wound and inserting a small stone under the cloth, so that the pebble would press on the main artery, Tom put a stick in the handkerchief and began to twist it. This had the effect of tightening the linen around the arm, and in a few seconds the lad was glad to see that the blood had stopped spurting out with every beat of the heart.
I started to play footer that afternoon without troubling to think how I should play. I could see myself marching slowly along the Woodstock road with the Warden, and however badly I played did not seem to matter much, for there was something far more awful to come. The XV. began to press at once, and I, as full-back, had plenty to do.
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