Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 28, 2025
He paused to light his battered pipe, which he produced ready-filled from his pocket, and then said abruptly: "Remember that old sneak named Higginson I mentioned to you yesterday? Well, I bagged the idea from him. When I hit town this afternoon the first thing I heard was that Higginson was going to buy the Gazette had bought it, some said." "Higginson!" Varney stared.
Meantime Pedro, being introduced to some kindling-wood and a bundle of dry sticks, had busied himself outside in lighting a fire, on which he placed a ready-filled kettle handed to him by Wang impassively, at arm's length, as if across a chasm. Having received the thanks of his guests, Heyst wished them goodnight and withdrew, leaving them to their repose. Heyst walked away slowly.
Each camp was the fellow of its neighbor; a chaotic collection of hastily built bunk shanties, a mess tent for those who, shunning the pay-devouring Scylla of the contractors' "commissary," fell into the Charybdis of the common table, and always, Kenneth remarked, the camp groggery, with its slab-built bar, its array of ready-filled pocket bottles, and its sad-faced, slouch-hatted, pistol-carrying keeper.
Pencroft jumped up, and his great good-natured face grew pale when he saw the reporter presenting him with a ready-filled pipe, and Herbert with a glowing coal. The sailor endeavored to speak, but could not get out a word; so, seizing the pipe, he carried it to his lips, then applying the coal, he drew five or six great whiffs.
"I've just a bit of a job to do. It doesn't amount to anything, but well, it's the sort of affair we don't talk about much." "Well, you're welcome to all the amusement you'll get out of it, a night like this." Furley laid down his pipe, ready-filled, and drank off his port. "There isn't much amusement left in the world, is there, just now?" he remarked gravely. "Very little indeed.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking