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This, with the three pound fourteen already in the heel, made a total of seven pounds one shilling. "I'll tell you," said Wicks. "Let Carthew and Tommy and me take one pound apiece, and Hemstead and Amalu split the other four, and toss up for the odd bob." "O, rot!" said Carthew. "Tommy and I are bursting already. We can take half a sov. each, and let the other three have forty shillings."
He had a gun on his shoulder, and carried by the claws the body of a rook with white wings. 'Oh, Herbert, cried Constance in dismay, 'did you shoot that by mistake? 'No; Stanhope would not believe there was such a crittur, and betted half a sov that it was a cram. 'But how could you? Our uncle and aunt thought so much of that poor dear Whitewing, and Best was told to take care of it.
His eyes come up in hate, glaring at Joe who stood there across from him, hands now extended forward in the stance of a karate fighter. Joe could follow the other's agonized thoughts in his expression. There were medics available and though the wound was a decisive one, it need not be fatal, not in this day of surgery and antibiotics. No, not fatal, the Sov Officer decided.
"What do you say, old fellow, about a 'Sweep for the Cup. Why, a 'sov. is nothing to the like of you, and there will be such fun at the lifting." This was said to me one morning about nine, just as I was preparing to get my shaving utensils into working order before turning out to the warehouse.
I'd got nothin' i' the world, and he knowed it. After a bit he begun to relent a bit, though nobody 'd iver had expected sich a thing. But so it was. He took to sendin' me a sov a week, onbeknownst to anybody, and most of all to mother. Well, mother sends me a sov a week from the beginning unbeknownst to anybody, and most of all him.
"As a representative of my government, a military attache checking upon possible violations of the Universal Disarmament Pact, may I request what you are about to do, captain?" Joe Mauser looked at him emptily. "How did you know I was here and what I was doing?" The Sov colonel smiled gently. "It was by suggestion of Marshal Cogswell. He is a great man for detail.
Ulmus Abelicea, Sibth & Sm. Prod. Fl., Graeca, i., p. 172. Planera Abelicea Roem. & Schltz. Syst., vi. p. 304; Planch, in Ann. des Sc. Nat. 1848, p. 282. Abelicea cretica, Smith in Trans. Linn. Sov., ix., 126.
"You had best close up the bargain and be quick about it," he said; "for not one penny more will you drag out of me. I'll give you a gold sov. for each of 'em, and that's as much as I can manage. They will take a sight of training, and then there's the risk." "Very well," said Mother Rodesia, "I suppose I had best do it; only they are worth more.
"I'll make you a nice hot supper, miss, in half an hour," said the woman, maternally, as if she were going to give it her. "No, thank you. Bring me a two-penny loaf, and a scuttle of coals." "La, miss, no more than that out of a sov'?" Having shown Mrs. Grip her father was a Yankee, she darted upstairs, with her candles. Zoe came to meet her, and literally dazzled her.
It was not easy to laugh at that, so to cover Alma's confusion the men turned the talk to their usual topic, horses and dogs, and I heard a great deal about "laying on the hounds," which culminated in a rather vulgar story of how a beater who "wasn't nippy on his pins" had been "peppered from behind," whereupon he had "bellowed like a bull" until "soothed down by a sov."
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