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Updated: May 24, 2025
My dear Runacles, you tossed the dice out of the window and flounced off in a huff. As they had been borrowed, and without their owner's consent, I thought fit to step across the street and pick them up. They were lying not a yard apart in the gutter. You were wrong, captain, in not giving them a look." "Why?" "Simply because, as they lay, two sixes were uppermost."
He gave me a fifty-dollar bill. "And the six?" he asked dryly. "In sixes," I said. He gave it me and I rushed out. As the big door swung behind me I caught the echo of a roar of laughter that went up to the ceiling of the bank. Since then I bank no more. I keep my money in cash in my trousers pocket and my savings in silver dollars in a sock. Lord Oxhead's Secret It was finished. Ruin had come.
But by that he hath put on his clothes, is come down from his bed, and ventured into the yard or shop, and there sees how all things are gone to sixes and sevens, he begins to have second thoughts, and says to his folks, What have you all been doing? How are all things out of order? I am I cannot tell what behind hand.
The gateway opened on a courtyard, with furnace fires shining here and there. Shadowy forms passed backwards and forwards, enlivening the dim scene with the bustle of a hive. Men came out by fives or sixes, laden with different kinds of burdens, and disappeared into the darkness, making for mysterious goals. In front of the open gate other figures were unloading heavy cases from vans.
"Come on, you black-hearted ace thief!" shouted Calamity Jane, thrusting the muzzle of one of her plated revolvers forcibly under the gambler's prominent nose "come on! slide in if you are after squar' up-an'-down fun. We'll greet you, best we know how, an' not charge you anything, either. See! I've got a couple full hands o' sixes every one's a trump! Ain't ye got no aces hid up yer sleeves?"
An angel from heaven wouldn't have pleased 'em; an' as I never held much stock in the angelic trust yeh kin easily understand we was most times very much at sixes an' sevens.
The idea that any persons of her acquaintance were at sixes and sevens, on bad terms, when, with a little good will on their part and tactful effort upon hers, they might be on pleasant ones was to her actively afflicting.
"As their army, exclusive of a few advanced parties, were drawn up at too great a distance for our short sixes to reach them, one field-piece with a howitzer was advanced 200 yards in front, and we could see that they played with great success amongst those that were of the first rank, by which the whole army was dispirited and thrown into confusion.
Annabel groaned, putting on her clothes with eager haste. "I have a vision of the mark I'll get!" She went to the door and took a sweeping glance down the hall. "Coast's clear," she announced. "Shoo both of you." Spring had come at last. In Woodford, up among the hills, the We Are Sevens or "Sixes," in the absence of Blue Bonnet were celebrating its advent with a riding party.
I never saw anything amiss in the girl's behaviour, and they are all at sixes and sevens without her at the mosaic work -though she is only absent from her mother's illness at present. 'You! of course she would not show her goings on before you, said the lady. 'Is Master Frank in the house? put in Mr. White; 'I should like to put the question before him.
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