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They do come down on you!" Dick averred. "Ra-ther! You know, of course, that if you violate any clause of your radio agreement you may be fined one hundred dollars; and should an operator fake a distress call the fine is twenty-five hundred dollars, or five years in prison and perhaps both. Even the smallest fine one can get off with for such an offense is two years behind the bars.
You'd better shut your eyes and pretend oh, I do hope you're good at pretending you must pretend that you are seeing the first person you heard sing these songs for you when you were little. The first one I heard, Marthy sang. Marthy was lean and small and ra-ther old. She lived over our stable in the cleanest rooms! With red geraniums in the windows!"
'Excuse me, Lady Durwent, said the gilded youth when a lull permitted him to speak, 'but would you pass the Daily Mail, please? 'My dear Horace, said Elise, 'you haven't taken to reading the Mail? 'No, dear one. Heaven forbid! I merely write for it. 'What! There was an ensemble of astonishment. 'Ra-ther.
She turned her despair at the sound of his entry, and despair gave place to astonishment. "You come back!" she said. "Ra-ther," said Mr. Polly. "He's he's mad drunk and looking for her." "Where is she?" "Locked upstairs." "Haven't you sent to the police?" "No one to send." "I'll see to it," said Mr. Polly. "Out this way?" She nodded. He went to the crinkly paned window and peered out.
She ran at Laurie and gave him a small, quick squeeze. "Oh, I do love parties, don't you?" gasped Laura. "Ra-ther," said Laurie's warm, boyish voice, and he squeezed his sister too, and gave her a gentle push. "Dash off to the telephone, old girl." The telephone. "Yes, yes; oh yes. Kitty? Good morning, dear. Come to lunch? Do, dear. Delighted of course.
"Sit down, Braden," said Lutie cheerfully. "I'll make myself scarce. I see you are down for a big job to-day. Good boy! I told you they'd come your way if you waited long enough. It is a big job, isn't it?" "Ra-ther," said he, smiling. "I daresay it will make or break me." "I should think you'd be frightfully nervous." "Well, I'm not, strange to say. On the contrary, I'm as fit as a fiddle."
His face, which had been portraying an amusing mixture of perplexity and admiration, broke into a smile which encompassed all his features. 'Do all bets cease at the end of the first hour? he asked. 'Yes, ra-ther. An Englishman never pays compliments then, because he is used to you. Isn't it awful seeing people getting used to you? 'Do they ever? 'Umph'm.
She knelt by the old sleighback bed and took a thin hand in hers. She smiled into the proud and happy eyes. "I brought something for her, Mary, I brought her first present. It's vairee old, it is clothes I found them first when I was ra-ther little myself." She talked softly, her slender fingers busied themselves with the old leather case. She held up the beautiful wee garments.
"You'll come again, won't you?" "Ra-ther!" he exclaimed. "How long will it be before you can come again?" "I don't know. You see, my father'll expect me to go home in the summer...." "Oh!" "But I might come for part of the hols. I'd like to!" "Yes," she said, sliding one of her feet in front of her and regarding the tip of her shoe intently.
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