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"You keep quiet," shrieked Alexina, who with difficulty refrained from substituting: "You shut up." She flung off Aileen's hands. "What do you know about him? He doesn't like you." "Never had a chance to find out." "What can you know about him, then?" "Think I'm blind? Think I'm deaf? Don't I know everything that goes on in this town? Isn't sizing-up my long suit?
She swept him from head to foot with one of her "sizing-up" examinations, noticing the refinement and thoughtfulness of his clean-shaven face, the white teeth, and the careful trimming of his hair, and the way it grew down on his temples, forming a small quarter whisker.
Ruyler saw Spaulding give her a sharp "sizing-up" look, as he murmured, "Well, so long, Guv. See you to-morrow. Hope the man'll turn out all right after all." "I hope so. He's a good chap otherwise." "Good night, ma'am. Tell your husband to put that ruby in a safe deposit box." "Oh, nobody knows the safe is there except Mr. Ruyler and myself "
I couldn't hear what he said, but I knew be spoke to you! Do you know who it was? It was Lord C., and he is Master of the Buckhounds! Tell me what do you think of him? "'Him? Well, for sizing-up a stranger, he's got the most sudden and accurate judgment of any man I ever saw. "It pleased her. I thought it would."
I couldn't hear what he said, but I knew he spoke to you! Do you know who it was? It was Lord C., and he is Master of the Buckhounds! Tell me what do you think of him? "'Him? Well, for sizing-up a stranger, he's got the most sudden and accurate judgment of any man I ever saw. "It pleased her. I thought it would."
To the hundred-fifty girls in Columbia Heights School this story can only allude in a brief way but of those who figure most prominently in Polly's and Peggy's new world we'll let Polly give the general "sizing-up."
With the quick, instinctive sizing-up developed on the athletic field, Bob thought him coarse-fibred, jolly, a little obtuse, but strong very strong with the strength of competent effectiveness. He was dressed in a slouch hat, a flannel shirt, a wrinkled old business suit and mud-splashed, laced half-boots. "Well, bub," said this man, "enjoying the scenery?" "Yes," said Bob with reserve.
Now and then one of the gamblers would lift his head to take a look at the new-comers, and for a brief instant young Breckenbridge would find himself gazing into a pair of hard, steady eyes. Then the eyes would be lowered and the player would go on with the game. It was during this uncomfortable interval of general sizing-up that the proprietor entered, a red-faced man and short of stature.
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