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Not havin' a gun will be your best recommend, generally speakin'. Stick to the bugs, Billy; stick to the bugs." "Well, you ought to know." "I got seven puckers in my hide to prove what I say. Six of 'em were put there by plumb amachoors in the gun line; fellas I never took pains to draw on quick, never suspectin' nothin'. The other, number seven, was put there by a gent that meant business.
I can see the puckers, and the sleeves are stretched so tight too. You didn't take them in again, surely?" "Just a tiny bit. They looked so baggy. But the collar, Eunice, the collar! For pity's sake take it off! I shall be raw in a moment. Take the scissors, pull tug! Get it off as quick as you can." "Take it off!
It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike. It is this entanglement of moods which makes us old, and puckers our brows and deepens the furrows about our eyes.
He came back and asked her for the corkscrew, but when she said "Eh?" with a vague wildness in her manner, and did not seem to understand, he went and got it for himself. She continued making stabs at her cloth and smoothing out the puckers in her seam. John was heard moving in the parlour. There was the sharp plunk of a cork being drawn, followed by a clink of glass.
They found everybody on the river; Charlotte was busy nodding to her friends while the doctor put on her skates. In a few moments the two were flying up the course. "Oh, this is great!" exulted Doctor Churchill. "And this is the first time you've been on the ice this winter in February!" "This is fine enough to make up. I do love it. It takes out all the puckers." "Doesn't it?
Puckers, who, in the housekeeper's room, had discussed the affairs of the family almost hourly ever since that sorrowful event, considered that it must have left his daughter in the possession of untold wealth, and that "the young man from town," as she designated Tom Ryfe, was sent down expressly to afford the heiress an estimate of her possessions.
" And got into a field of young clover." said Tall. " Young clover!" said Moon. " Clover!" said Joseph Poorgrass. "And they be getting blasted." said Henery Fray. "That they be." said Joseph. "And will all die as dead as nits, if they bain't got out and cured!"said Tall. Joseph's countenance was drawn into lines and puckers by his concern.
Then he evaporated, not without a sort of mossy dignity, and might be heard tremblingly descending to the lower regions. "Rose, since when do we have a housekeeper's room?" asked Dion, touching Robin's puckers with a gentle fore-finger. "I can't call it the servants' hall to him, poor old man. And I like to give him tea. It may wean him from " An expressive look closed the sentence.
His vivid eyes lightened, his heavy brows smoothed out their puckers, and the tense lines about his lips relaxed. His own words came back to him: "The Past is done with. Why should not the Future be fair?" He knew, as he looked towards Lynette Mildare, who personified the Future for him, and his mood changed. He had loved her without hope.
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