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"'E's what you might call Gavel's right 'and man an' 'e's 'andy with 'is right, too, when 'e's put out. If 'e should 'ear I'm advisin' for yer good, mind if 'e should 'ear as five 'orses was 'ung up on the wharf 'ere through S. 'Olly an' Son's neglect, you may look out for ructions. An' that's all I promise."
At this first Council meeting, and at the meetings of many committees subsequently called to make preparation for the great day, 'Bias said very little. Those and they were many who had looked for "ructions" between the two rivals, and had taken glee of the prospect, suffered complete disappointment.
She took off her dressing jacket in order to show him her back and her arms, which were black and blue. He looked at her skin without being tempted to abuse the opportunity, as that ass of a Prulliere would have been. Then, sententiously: "My dear girl, where there are women there are sure to be ructions. It was Napoleon who said that, I think. Wash yourself with salt water.
I thought; but, before I could think any more, the tall, dreadful boarder the lady whom I secretly called Juno swept up the steps, and by me into the house, with a dignity that one might term deafening. The waitress now muttered, or rather sang, a series of pious apostrophes. "Oh, Lawd, de rampages and de ructions! Oh, Lawd, sinner is in my way, Daniel!"
"There's bin ructions while you were away, my lord," the butler had whispered, waylaying him in the hall just before midnight. "Lady St. Maur has upset the Earl somethink dreadful;" and Medenham had growled in reply: "Her ladyship will lunch here at one o'clock to-morrow, Tomkinson. Have an ambulance ready at two, for she will be in little pieces before I have done with her.
"The blessed young lady's full of ructions," said Tildy. "And no wonder," replied Mrs. Ross. "She's a step above Martin, and Martin knows it." "I 'ope as she won't refuse to jine us at Laburnum Villa," said Tildy. "There's no sayin' wot a spirited gel like that'll do," said Mrs. Ross; "but ef she do go down, Martin 'll be a match for 'er." "I don't know about that," replied Tildy.
"That off foot o' mine kind o' b'longs to the church, anyway," said Captain Leezur sweetly; "has for years; don't pain me much as I knows on, but she ain't seound: if t'other one starts off kind o' skittish she 's sartin to hold back " "Ye'd orter be thankful 't ye only has to contend with natch'al diserbilities," interposed Captain Pharo, "'n' don't have any o' these d d ructions played on ye."
In the first place, his agents in Paris made it quite clear to him that there was likely to be "ructions" in Graustark over the loan and the prospect of a plebeian princess being seated on the throne whether the people liked it or not; and in the second place, Maud Applegate had left a note on his desk in the Paris offices, coolly informing him that she was likely to turn up in Edelweiss almost as soon as he.
"If these condummit ructions are over," said our general for the wind was blowing cold "forwards ag'in, by clam!" and we marched upon the schoolhouse; but we encountered so many difficulties, of wayward ropes, in hoisting our ensign, that Captain Pharo declared, rubbing his chilled hands: "'T we'd omit the usual cheerin' 'tell we'd been in and thawed out ef they was any thaw to us leastways baited."
"She took 'n' hid his pipe one day, and her clo's was hangin' out on the line she wears the mos' beautiful, 'labberotest-trimmed clo's you ever see so what does he do but go an' git a padlock an' padlocked them clo's onto the line. 'When you git me my pipe, says he, 'I'll unlock your wardrobe, says he." "Wal, I never! Ain't them ructions!" "Did the peddler come around to your house this month?"
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