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He hung about irresolute, then lit a cigar, and between the puffs, "Shall you be late?" he asked carelessly. "Sure to be," Mrs. Chater told him. "It's going to be a big bridge drive, you know. We shan't get back before midnight. Don't sit up for us, dear." Bob inhaled a long breath from his cigar, exhaled it deliciously. The chance for the slap-dash style was at hand. "Oh, I'll be later than you.
He managed to happen to meet Lopez in the street, and introduced the subject in his own slap-dash, aery manner, the result of which was, that he had gone rather deep into two or three American mines before the end of July.
But Lord love you, that isn't necessary. The one thing necessary is for me to run this Home according to the book, and if you're fool enough to prefer a slap-dash boarding-house to this hygienic Home, why, you'll make your bed or rather some slattern of a landlady will make it and you can lie in it. Come with me. No; first read the rules."
Away they run, pell-mell, helter-skelter, slap-dash: tearing, yelling, screaming, knocking down the passengers as they turn the corners, rousing up the dogs, and astonishing the fowls: and streets, squares, and courts, re-echo with the sound. 'Stop thief! Stop thief! The cry is taken up by a hundred voices, and the crowd accumulate at every turning.
You see, ma, one of our directors to-day sez to me, after board, sez he, 'The Boniface Newts is a going it slap-dash up to Saratogy. I laughed, and sez I, 'Why shouldn't they? but I don't believe they be, sez I. Sez he, 'I'll bet you a new shawl for your wife they be, sez he. Sez I, 'Done. So you see ma, if so be they be, werry well.
She would help me to reform my rather slap-dash style of writing, and to give it the literary touch, and she would help me in my punctuation. She had made a study of my editorials, and knew all my weak points. "All this was enough to exasperate a steadier-nerved man than myself. It drove me, barely convalescent from mental collapse, to distraction.
"Come to my side," said Mr. , to the whipper-in, "and meet that gentleman as he arrives at yonder gate; and keep by him while I scold you." "Now, sir, most particularly d n you, for riding slap-dash over the young wheat, you most confounded insensible ignorant tinker, isn't the headland wide enough both for you and your horse, even if your spurs were as long again as they are?"
Nothing could have pleased her better. She went to the piano, and, to the awe and astonishment of Mrs. Campbell Moncrieff, took out an arrangement of the Fijian war-dance from 'The Primate of Fiji. It suited her brilliant slap-dash style of execution admirably; and she felt she had never played so well in her life before.
This fellow had no money, but she must needs become engaged to him a harumscarum, unpractical chap, who would get himself into no end of difficulties. She had come to him one day in her slap-dash way and told him; and, as if it were any consolation, she had added: "He's so splendid; he's often lived on cocoa for a week!" "And he wants you to live on cocoa too?"
Away they run, pell-mell, helter-skelter, slap-dash: tearing, yelling: screaming, knocking down the passengers as they turn the corners, splashing through the mud, and rattling along the pavements, following after the wretched, breathless, panting child, gaining upon him every instant. Stopped at last! A clever blow!
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