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Of course we could not blame him for trying to escape that was only natural but it made us more cautious in the future. Excepting the inconvenience of being unable to get away, he had nothing to complain of, and had the advantage of plenty to eat and drink without the trouble of looking for it. The manufacture of the "quid" mentioned above is interesting.
Such a huge house for so limited a family had suggested the term to the sharp-tongued Cape Codders. Horry Newbegin turned the idea and his quid over several times, then commented: "Well, the skipper wouldn't be doing so bad at that!" The girl had never been to sea before, not even on a pleasure boat down the harbor. The delights of a sail to Nantasket were quite unknown to her.
Marcus explained that he had made every effort to discover the authorship of the letters, without success; whereupon the coroner shut his eyes knowingly, rolled his quid from right to left, and said that he was "investigatin' 'em" himself. QUESTION BY A JUROR. "Wos the letters postpaid?" ANSWER. "They were." The juror took the reply into his profoundest consideration.
"How is that, Mr. Kevanagh?" "My name's not Kevanagh," replied Mat, "but Kavanagh; the Irish A for ever!" "Well, but how is the lad a namesake of mine?" said the Englishman. "Bekase, you see, he's a, poor scholar, sir," replied Mat: "an' I hope your honor will pardon me for the facetiousness 'Quid vetat ridentem dicere verum! as Horace says to Maecenas, in the first of the Sathirs." "There, Mr.
Accordingly, after brief debate, both resolutions, voted in the morning, were confirmed in the afternoon. "So now," said Wilkes, "Maurice is general of all the forces, 'et quid sequetur nescimus." But whatever else was to follow, it was very certain that Wilkes would not stay.
And she never mentioned Bob, nor anybody else excepting some fellow she called Charlie. She thought I was him, but she only talked to me friendly. She didn't pull any love talk at all." "Charlie?" Pop ruminated over a fresh quid of tobacco. "Charlie! Mebby Bob, he stakes himself to a different name now and then. There ain't any Charlie, except Charlie Werner; she wouldn't mean him, do yuh s'pose?"
I'm on the permanent staff, six quid a week eight quid a week if I find this cat. I'm working it from Herons' Holt, you know. I'm " George turned upon him. "Are you 'Our Special Commissioner at Paltley Hill'?" "Rather! Have you been reading it? Pretty hot stuff, isn't it? I say, George, wasn't it lucky I chucked medicine!
Against our countesse we conspire, packe vp all her iewels, plate, money that was extant, and to the water side send them: to conclude, couragiously rob her, and run away. Quid non auri sacra fames? What defame will not golde salue.
I'm blowed! Girls aren't worth a damn.... Thirty to one off Bill Short he'd have laid it. I remember seeing the price quoted in all the papers. Thirty to one taken and hoffered. If you had told me all yer knowed I might 'ave gone 'alf a quid fifteen pun to 'alf a quid! as much as I'd earn in three months slaving eight and ten hours a day, paint-pot on 'and about them blooming engines.
For how often may we observe that the union of the most remarkable intellects produces a tertium quid which is the reverse of an equivalent to the combined totals, representing only a fraction of their qualities, and that fraction in its negative aspect; while, on the other hand, rivulets of blood which have gained for themselves no name upon earth may combine to form a river illustrious to the whole world.
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