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"Oh, but so-so," said Gudbrand, "not much to boast of. When I came to the town I could find no one to buy the cow, so I exchanged it for a horse." "Thanks for that!" said the wife; "we are such fine folk that we can ride to church the same as other people, and as we can keep a horse we might as well have one. Go and put the horse up, children." "But," said Gudbrand, "I have not got the horse.
Our American civilization should be called Drummer's Delight and there's nothing in your fire-eater to delight a drummer: he's a gentleman, he'll be only so-so rich, and he's away back out of the lime-light, while poor old Charley's a bounder, and worth forty millions anyhow, and right in the centre of the glare. How should he see any danger in John?" "I wonder if he hasn't begun to?"
Harry opened the book a Greek reader in the middle of an extract from Xenophon, and looked with some awe at the unintelligible letters. "Can you read it? Can you understand what it means?" he asked, looking up from the book. "So-so." "You must know a great deal." Oscar laughed. "I wonder what Dr. Burton would say if he heard you," he said. "Who is he?" "Principal of our Academy.
"Make skull almost break bend um in but Nepapinas straighten again with fingers, so-so." He shrugged his thin shoulders with a cackling laugh of pride as he worked his claw-like fingers to show how the operation had been done.
"I can call you and the dog if I see any one coming, and that will do just as well," said the old woman. "So it will," replied little Joan, and off she ran to the cornfield, where, for that matter, So-so had run before her, and was bounding and barking and springing among the wheat stalks.
"Well, Edward," said he, cheerfully, "what luck did you have with the old lady? Did she make a pretty fair bill?" "So-so," returned Claire, with affected indifference; "about thirty dollars." "Ah! so much?" "Yes; and, what is better, I made her pay pretty strong. She was from the country." "That'll do." And Jasper rubbed his hands together energetically.
'He's uncommon pale, replied his father, ''cept about the nose, which is redder than ever. His appetite is wery so-so, but he imbibes wonderful. Some thoughts of the rum appeared to obtrude themselves on Mr.
There is such a turmoil in my head that I couldn't tell where I am going myself. I go where fate takes me. Ha-ha! My dear fellow, have you ever seen a happy fool? No? Well, then, take a look at one. You behold the happiest of mortals! Yes! Don't you see something from my face?" "Well, one can see you're a bit . . . a tiny bit so-so." "I dare say I look awfully stupid just now.
"Now, then, to shift his head; so-so, that's right." Philip's sallow cheek and long hair were now tenderly lapped on the soliloquist's bosom. "Poor wretch! he smiles; perhaps he is thinking of home, and the butterflies he ran after when he was an urchin they never come back, those days; never never never!
"See?" he concluded his story. "A pup coming from a good breed is an excellent dog at the very first chase. From his exterior he is so-so. A man of rather heavy mind as yet. Well, never mind, let him have his fun. It seems now as though nothing wrong will come out of this. With a character like his, no. How he bawled at me! A regular trumpet, I tell you! And he appointed himself master at once.
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