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I let mother send for you, because well, because I thought you would make it a little easier for her, for one thing. But I had another reason." "Had you?" Sara spoke mechanically. They had paused beside the Queen's Bench, and half-unconsciously she laid her ungloved hand caressingly on the seat's high back. The stone struck cold against the warmth of her flesh. "Yes."
'After all, though, it's a bit unfair on Cranston. Hang it, I've been a married man myself, and he chuckled in unregenerate enjoyment. 'However, the seat's got to be won. Let's think of an epigram, and he scratched his head and slapped his thigh. It was the Captain's way of thinking. The satisfactory epigram would not emerge.
My seat's paid fer all right," he said distinctly for the enlightenment of the other passengers, and Herbert Hutton reached out a discreet arm and dropped something in the porter's hand which sent him on his way and left Bi snorting audibly after him. "You'd better shut up!" growled the dictator to Bi. "We don't want to be conspicuous, you know.
Henry was able to secure a stall, but it was not next to Gilbert's. It was in the last row. "Never mind," said Gilbert, "we can meet between the acts. My seat's at the end of a row, and you can easily get out of yours. If Cecily's in a box, she'll probably ask us to stay in it. She likes to have people about her!"
Here!" apparently addressing the hardware, "you get out of that. That seat's reserved." He stretched a long arm over the workbench, seized the chair by the back and tipped it forward. The pasteboard boxes went to the floor in a clattering rush. One containing washers broke open and the little metal rings rolled everywhere. Mr. Winslow did not seem to mind.
Yer back seat's fallin' off!" "What did he say?" muttered Hawkins, too full of importance to turn his head. "Hey! Hey!" cried the youngster, pursuing us. "Dat back seat's most fell off!" "What!" shrieked Hawkins, whirling about. "Good Lord! So it is! Catch it, Griggs, catch it quick!" I turned. The boy was right. The rear seats of the automobile had managed to detach themselves.
Philip saw from the window that a gentleman had put her upon the car just as it was starting. In a few moments the conductor entered, and without waiting an explanation, said roughly to the lady, "Now you can't sit there. That seat's taken. Go into the other car."
And we aren't as rich as we should like to be; you of all people must know that. And there's going to be an election and our seat's very shaky. So the cares of the world are on me." "Sandro's been doing well." "Splendidly, simply splendidly. It's impossible to doubt that he'll do great things if if all goes well, and he doesn't make mistakes." "Seems like making mistakes, does he?" "Oh, no.
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