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'A put-off, for a guinea! exclaimed his lordship. 'Hope so, muttered Jack. 'Hope not, replied his lordship. 'It is! exclaimed Jack, reading, 'Dear Mr. Spraggon, and so on. 'The humbug! muttered Lord Scamperdale, adding, 'I'll be bound he's got no more influenza than I have.
For other people, they would urge the reasonable question, how else came Roger by the cash? and getting no answer, or worse than none a prevaricating, mystifying mere put-off they had hardly an alternative in common exercise of judgment: therefore, "Shame on her," said the neighbours, "and the bitterest shame on him:" and the gaffers and grand-dames shook their heads virtuously.
I have the Court Secretary's answer this day about that command in the Kaisar's guards that my dear old master had promised to his godson." "Another put-off with Flemish courtesy, I see by thy face, Ebbo." "Not quite that, mother.
For other people, they would urge the reasonable question, how else came Roger by the cash? and getting no answer, or worse than none a prevaricating, mystifying mere put-off they had hardly an alternative in common exercise of judgment: therefore, "Shame on her," said the neighbours, "and the bitterest shame on him:" and the gaffers and grand-dames shook their heads virtuously.
"Still in his own country and kept by his own clan. King George can do no more." I think I would have asked further, but Alan gave me the put-off. "I am rather wearied," he said, "and I would like fine to get a sleep." And without more words he rolled on his face in a deep heather bush, and seemed to sleep at once. There was no such thing possible for me.
'Love me, love my dog, being a favourite saying of his lordship's, he fed himself, his friends, and his hounds, on the same meal. Jack and he were busy with two great basins full of porridge, which his lordship diluted with milk, while Jack stirred his up with hot dripping, when the put-off note arrived.
Are you going to marry her?" He had determined very resolutely that nothing she might say should make him angry, but when she thus questioned him about "Crosbie's leavings" he found it very difficult to keep his temper. "I have not come," said he, "to speak to you about any one but ourselves." "That put-off won't do with me, sir.
Or, "Unless the shipping interest is grappled with and controlled." Or, "Unless England wakes up." And with that they seem to wash their hands of further responsibility for the future. One delightful form of put-off is the sage remark, "Let us finish the war first, and then let us ask what is going to happen after it."
"Still in his own country and kept by his own clan. King George can do no more." I think I would have asked farther, but Alan gave me the put-off. "I am rather wearied," he said, "and I would like fine to get a sleep." And without more words, he rolled on his face in a deep heather bush, and seemed to sleep at once. There was no such thing possible for me.
"Some time you must give another the helm," said Mrs. Cartwright quietly. "I wish I could persuade you to do so soon." Cartwright sighed, for the strain was heavy and he wanted to rest. The trouble was the put-off reckoning for past extravagance was at hand and he shrank from asking his wife to pay. He had not been very scrupulous, but he had his code.
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