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"Why, honest Roger, how in the world could you ha' come by that?" was the troublesome inquiry of Dick the Tanner. "Well, Acton, you're sharper than I took you for, if you can squeeze gold out of bailiff Jennings," added Solomon Snip; and Roger knew no better way of silencing their tongues, than by profusely drenching them in liquor.
Tell her I shall call again," came in drawling tones up the stairway, for it was warm, and doors and windows were open. "Little snip!" murmured Estelle. "I'm so glad I didn't have to see him. He's a pest all the while wanting to take me out and buy ice-cream sodas. He's just starting in at the movies, and he thinks he's a star already.
But there was a sore pang in his heart, as he remembered dead Snip, unburied on the hillside. Supper was ready when he reached home; and what a savoury smell came through the open door, quite down to the wicket!
"Thank you. Just a snip. Plenty." "My dear, I think you are stopping in the bathtub too long this morning. I fancied you a trifle hoarse yesterday." "It was the company, pet. I strained my voice slightly in that last duet." "We shall have to be furnished with a new shell before long. This old one is getting to be rather the last peas of the picking."
For a few minutes his brave spirit sank within him, and all the landscape swam before his eyes; while Snip took advantage of his master's inattention to put his nose into the basin, and help himself to the largest share of the potatoes. 'I mean to be like grandmother, said Martha's clear, sharp voice, close beside him, and he saw his sister looking eagerly round her.
The fern was not wrong with its song of 'Snip, snap, snurre, Basse lurre. But the song is not ended yet, I am sure; it is only just beginning. How wonderful it is, that after all I have suffered, I am made something of at last; I am the luckiest person in the world so strong and fine; and how white, and what a length! This is something different to being a mere plant and bearing flowers.
I should be very hurt if you got into the habit of frequenting their society much, Georgie. But there, I'm sure I cannot tell what is coming to all the women nowadays! You don't seem as if you could be safe with any one of them. To think of a middle-aged person like Mrs. Porcher, for instance, taking up with that little snip of a Farge, and she old enough to be his mother!"
'That will do, said Laxley, lacking the magnanimity to despise the advantage given him, 'you have chosen the very best means of saving your skins. 'We 'll come to you when our supply of clothes runs short, added Harry. 'A snip! 'Pardon me ! said Evan, with his eyes slightly widening, 'but if you come to me, I shall no longer give you a choice of behaviour. I wish you good-night, gentlemen.
"They are cutting 'em in town a trifle tighter about the lower leg, but loose above. You understand?" "Perfectly, Mr. Egerton," replied the obsequious snip. "What we call the 'tighto-looso' style, sir." "I don't think they call it that in Savile Row," said the Caterpillar; "but be careful." The tailor was assured that he would receive an order properly signed by Mr. Rutford.
Gladys already had Snip in her arms, and as the little fellow struggled to lick her cheek in token of his desire to be on friendly terms, she said laughingly: "You poor, foolish Aunt Hannah! To think that a mite of a dog like this one could ever be ferocious! Isn't he a perfect beauty? I never saw such a dear!"
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