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All I wrote I squeezed out of myself by sheer hard work. Why, in those days I was never able to do more than six-fifty words an hour, and what's more, I often didn't sell what I wrote." He sighed. "We artists," he said parenthetically, "we intellectuals aren't much appreciated here in England."
"If I didn't catch another ace or a small pair." The game was breaking up. "Hell! I was playin' poker before you could navigate, young fellow," Bandy boasted. He had lost four dollars and was annoyed. "An' you're still an optimist about hookin' another pair when you need 'em." Dud was counting his winnings placidly. "Six-fifty seven seven and two bits.
So I awoke from my lethargy, and springing up sent not for my shield and spear, but for an "Indicateur des Chemins de Fer." I would go to Tlemcen and get to the bottom of it. I searched the time-table and found two trains, one starting from Algiers at nine-forty at night and getting into Tlemcen at noon next day, and one leaving at six-fifty in the morning and arriving at half-past ten at night.
'No, we're on our w'y 'ome, is Jowey an' me. Jest thought we'd break the journey 'ere. We shall ketch the six-fifty hup. 'Then you will have a cup of tea with us, said Mrs. Peak, surprised at Godwin's transformation, but seeing that hospitality was now unavoidable. Charlotte presently entered the house, and, after a private conversation with her mother, went to greet Andrew.
Gee! but this society life runs into coin, don't it? I'd dropped into one of them swell booterers and was beefin' away at the clerk about havin' to pay six-fifty just for a pair of tango moccasins, when I hears someone on the bench back of me remark casual: "Nine dollars? Very well. Send them up to my hotel. Here's my card."
Most of the Public Schools were present; it was a noble affair from the general's point of view. The school, however, considered it a putrid sweat. For hours they pounded over ploughed fields and the day dragged slowly on to its weary close and two hundred very tired privates at last fell into a six-fifty train.
Lew put down ten and added the column of figures. "One hundred feet exactly," he said. "Bully good!" replied Charley. "A hundred feet oughtn't to cost much of anything. The rub's going to be to get the oars. You say they want five dollars for the cheapest pair at the hardware store, and the sporting goods store wants six-fifty." "The robbers!" cried Lew. "Think of it.
'Oh, my brotheh! she cried, 'Lawd save my po' brotheh! I's los' him ag'in! I done bid my las' dollah at de fust call!" "And Mingo knew her voice, spied her out?" "Yes, and holloed, 'Sidney! sisteh! till grand-mère wept too and a man called out, 'No one bid that six hundred! But grandpère said: 'I bid six-fifty and will tell all about this unlikely boy if his owner bids again.
I'm free until six-fifty A. M. and I could spare an hour or two between then and breakfast time." "I can't to-night," Caroline said, "I promised Nancy to dine at the Inn." "That wasn't your line at all," Billy groaned. "Who's the blonde? that was your cue. If it's only Nancy you're dining with that can be fixed." "I regard an engagement with Nancy as just as sacred as " "So do I," Billy cut in.
Six-fifty of a glorious, keen November morning, and sixty troopers of the old regiment were distributed along a spur that crossed, almost at right angles, the line of the Indian trail. Sixty fur-capped, rough-coated fellows, with their short brown carbines in hand, crouching behind rocks and fallen trees, keeping close to cover and warned to utter silence.
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