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She rarely felt sorry for any one's discomfort, and really Arabella did look funny. In the shake-up, her hat had been pushed over to one side of her head, but she did not know that, and her old-fashioned little face looked smaller than usual, because of the two heavy shawls which were crowded so high that she appeared to have no neck at all.
Percy got the lower near the door, with Budge over him; while Spurling drew the back lower, and Stevens the one above that. "Percy and I are the lucky ones," said Jim. "We can try this a month, then have a shake-up to give you top men a chance nearer the floor." Percy pulled out his wrappers and tobacco. Spurling nipped his preparations in the bud. "No cigarettes in here!"
He left for the city early Wednesday morning, after a minor shake-up at home, which he thus describes: A VIVID FIRE PICTURE. "I was asleep and was awakened by the house rocking.
"I thought the last Police Department shake-up had put a stop to that." "Perhaps it has," returned Kennedy. "Did you see who was in the car?" "No, but I see it has turned and is coming back." "It was Inspector I mean, First Deputy O'Connor. I thought he recognized us as he whizzed along, and I guess he did, too. Ah, congratulations, O'Connor!
And Outfield West waved his hand gayly and swung off toward Hampton House, while Joel entered the gymnasium and was soon enjoying the luxury of a shower bath and listening to the conversation of the others. "There'll be a shake-up to-morrow," observed Warren as he rubbed himself dry with a big, crimson-bordered towel. "Mr. Remsen wasn't any too well pleased to-day.
And the voice of Berselius was not the voice of the Berselius of yesterday. It had lost the decision and commanding tone that made it so different from the voices of common men. "It will pass," said Adams. "It is only a shake-up of the brain. Why, I have seen a man after a blow on the head with his memory clean wiped out. He had to learn his alphabet again." Berselius did not reply.
We ourselves had not as yet begun to perceive what it would lead to a state-wide scandal that would echo in the Chicago, San Francisco and New York newspapers, and result in severe criticism of the university faculty for remaining blind to such a condition of affairs ... and how there would be interrogations in the Kansas Legislature and a complete shake-up of the political power in Laurel.
But our indignation had grown hotter with the shake-up that we had just had, and as usual Jack was spokesman for it: "Maybe there is no occasion for alarm," he said excitedly, "but will you be kind enough to answer my question, and tell us what you're about and where we are going?" And Henry, too, who was ordinarily as mute as a clam, broke out still more hotly: "See here!
"You've had a bad shake-up, and it'll do you no end of good to get away from things." When the doctor came the next day it turned out that he knew of the plan and approved it. "You ought to be quiet for a year. Just loaf and look at the landscape," he advised. Faxon felt the first faint stirrings of curiosity. "What's been the matter with me, anyhow?" "Well, over-work, I suppose.
Fate meant that they should live, those two lone wanderers on the face of the great desolation; and, though night had gathered now and all was cloaked in gloom, they landed with no worse than a hard shake-up on a level strip of beach that edged the confines of the unknown lake.
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