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"Ah!" said Barnabas, slowly and very softly, and clenched his fist. "So now, d'ye see, you can't go can ye?" said Mr. Shrig in a hopeless tone. "Yes!" said Barnabas. "Eh? Vot you vill?" "Most assuredly!" "But but it'll be madness!" stammered Mr. Shrig, his round eyes rounder than ever, "it'll be fair asking to be made a unfort'nate wictim of, if ye go.
Most of the things for which he had longed and had striven had come to him. He was known as a rounder, his highest ambition. His waistcoats were the loudest to be had. He was possessed of a factitious ease and self-possession that was almost aggression. The hot breath of the city had touched and scorched him, and had dried up within him whatever was good and fresh.
The latter could scarcely believe his senses, when he found himself the only person to help Ernest to keep up the game. Ernest was in the home; Ellis was on the base at the opposite side. He knew that he must run hard, or he would put Ernest out as well as himself. "Now, Tom, two fair hits for the rounder," exclaimed Ernest. The proposal was agreed to.
Can the most refined lack of vanity hide from you the fact that your own person is infinitely rounder than this of the evilly-intentioned-looking individual with the opium pipe? O blind Kin Yen!" Here she fled in honourable confusion, leaving this person standing in the street, astounded, and a prey to the most distinguished emotions of a complicated nature.
Judie sat in her corner brooding over her trouble, and crying a little now and then. Joe was simply frightened, and his eyes grew bigger and rounder than ever.
Gettin' to be a reg'lar Broadway rounder, I expect?" "No," says he, shakin' the water off of him like a terrier, "I I can't seem to get used to bein' a city man. Fact is, McCabe, I guess I begun too late. I don't like it at all." "Homesick for Pemaquid?" says I. "That's it," says he.
"Sink me!" exclaimed the one-armed individual, rounder of eye than ever, "the fellow's mad stark, staring mad." "No, indeed, sir," smiled Barnabas, reassuringly, "but the book here which I am given to understand is wholly infallible says that to bow is the most important item of a gentlemanly equipment, and in the World of Fashion "
A single glance at the Restorer of Lost Articles showed me that I was no longer in his eyes a citizen who was in temporary misfortune. I was classified. He recognized me as a rounder. "There he is again," he said to himself. "Last time it was at Rockingham Junction, this time it is probably on the Saugus Branch; but it is the same old story, and the same old umbrella."
In the excitement of talking the girl's face looked rounder and of a better colour than it had yet shown, and her eyes were glowing, eyes of such beauty as are not often seen. But for all that, she seemed like some lovely child who could no more take care of itself than could a newborn kitten. Ellen laid one hand on hers. "You are not to think about such things yet, dear," she said.
Somewhat like a Spitzbergen, but a trifle rounder. Trans. Getting ahead of her, an empty, black, funereal catafalque whirled by; with two horses in harness, and two tied behind to the little rear columns.
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