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Updated: June 14, 2025
"I'm no sure o' that," interrupted my hostess, wi' a look an' expression o' voice that rather took me aback, as indeed, had also the triumphant manner in which she had appealed to me if they could be blamed for havin believed me dead. This she was aye pressin on me, an' I was rather surprised at it; but it was to be fully accounted for. "No!" said I, whan Mrs.
An instant later, O'Hagan returned, bearing a slip of white pasteboard which he deposited on the desk before Maitland. "'James Burleson Snaith," Maitland read aloud from the faultlessly engraved card. "I don't know him. What does he want?" "Wouldn't say, sor; seemed surprised whin I towld him ye were in, an' said he was glad to hear it business pressin', says he."
I see then thet Sonny was a natu'al-born 'Piscopal, an' we might ez well make up our minds to it an' I told her so, too. They say some is born so. But we thought we'd let him alone an' let nature take its co'se for awhile not pressin' him one way or another.
But if I show my good will towards 'em by stirrin' up fruit-cakes and bride-cake, and pickin' chickens, and pressin' 'em, and makin' ice-cream and coffee and sandwitches, and workin' myself completely tired out, a wishin' 'em well, why, then they can depend on it that I am sincere in my good wishes."
You couldn't look Betty square in the face if you'd done what you set out to do. Now, I ain't pressin' you, but I done some scouting while you was away, and I heard four men's voices in the house. Can you tell me who's there?" "You've played square, Pete," answered Vic hoarsely, "and I'll do my part.
Only now, after pressin' her and aunt Georgie wery hard, have I bin allowed to let it out, for poor Aspel himself don't want his whereabouts to be known." "Surely!" exclaimed Phil, with a troubled, anxious air, "he has not become a criminal." "No. Auntie assures me he has not, but he is sunk very low, drinks hard to drown his sorrow, and is ashamed to be seen. No wonder.
Her dress contains 16 flounders and her shoes is red morocker, with gold spangles onto them. Presently she jumps up with a wild snort, and pressin her hands to her brow, she exclaims: "Methinks I see a voice!" A noble youth of 27 summers enters.
She kept pressin' Kenelm to have a little more, so 'twas after three when they got up from the table. "'Twas a rainy, drizzly afternoon and the stove felt mighty homey and cozy. So did the big rocker that Hannah transplanted from the parlor to the settin'-room.
"It matters little," said the laird, "seein' we ken what it 's no made o'; but tak' yer wull o' 't, Jeames." "Sit ye doon than, laird, gien ye hae naething mair pressin', an' see what I mak' o' 't," said the watchmaker, setting him a chair. "Wullin'ly," replied the laird, " but I dinna like takin' up yer time." "Ow, my time's no sae dooms precious!
'An' 'e give it you for love? said Ortheris. 'We were alone in that passage. Maybe I was a trifle too pressin', but considher fwhat I had done for the good av the temple and the iverlastin' joy av those women. 'Twas cheap at the price. I wud ha' taken more if I cud ha' found ut. I turned the ould man upside down at the last, but he was milked dhry.
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