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He reports that there is such-and-such a car parked so-and-so, after which he goes on to spot the next target. The rest of the business is up to the men who do the actual stealing. Jimmy's job-training program took only one morning. That same afternoon he went to work for Jake's crew. Jake's experience with kids had been no more than so-so promising.
As if the guardian angel of Dick's conscience was at work that very minute to torment him, there came the sound of an approaching horse, and Samson turned the corner into view. "Oh, hullo, Blaine! How's the gold developing?" "So-so. Have they found the murderer of Mukhum Dass yet?" Samson dropped his reins to light a cigar, and took his time about it. "Not exactly." "Hum!
Once upon a long, long time ago, and in a country far, far away, there lived two men in the same town and both were named Selim; one was Selim the Baker and one was Selim the Fisherman. Selim the Baker was well off in the world, but Selim the Fisherman was only so-so.
"I have some distance to go this evening," said the old woman, "but I do not object to a few minutes' rest, and sooner than that you should lose the bird I will sit on the doorstep to oblige you, while you run down to the cornfield." "But can you bark if any one comes?" asked little Joan. "For if you can't, So-so must stay with you."
"I've met a good many examples of these sudden conversions, but they never last long as a rule it's a case of 'the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, more than anything else. Good-looking?" "So-so, I believe," replied Kilsip, shrugging his shoulders. "Very ignorant could neither read nor write."
'Lizabeth brushed aside the question by another. "Do you love him? I mean so that that you could lie down and let him tramp the life out o' you?" "Good Lord, girl, what questions you do ask! Why, so-so, o' course, like other married women. He's wild at times, but I shut my eyes; an' he hav'n struck me this year past. I wonder what he can be doin' all this time." "Come and see." 'Lizabeth rose.
He snapped his fingers contemptuously as he spoke, and walked away to the outer door to receive the jailer, who returned at that moment. "Well," inquired the hunchback, "has anybody asked for me?" "No," answered Lomaque; "not a soul has entered the room. What sort of wine did you get?" "So-so! Good at a pinch, friend good at a pinch."
So he was called So-so; and a very nice soft name it is. The widow was only a poor woman, though she contrived by her industry to keep a decent home together, and to get now one and now another little comfort for herself and her child. One day she was going out on business, and she called her little daughter and said to her, "I am going out for two hours.
"So-so," he answered. She looked at him searchingly as he approached her. "Why I don't believe that you have slept at all," she cried. "I didn't feel very sleepy," he replied evasively. "You sat up all night on guard!" she exclaimed. "You know you did."
"And there's a good eh a good eh property, I believe?" asked the other in an off-hand way. "H'm so-so," said the Major. Whereupon this colloquy came to an end. And Arthur Pendennis got into a post-chaise with his uncle, never to come back to school any more.
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