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That's why I don't feel compassionate about your Ruby. She and I are in the same boat. We are both the victims of circumstance, and in New York so many of the circumstances are Steins." Paul's Case It was Paul's afternoon to appear before the faculty of the Pittsburgh High School to account for his various misdemeanours.
It seems wonderful how their thin steins can support, at a height of thirty or forty feet from the ground, the masses of huge orange-coloured fruit which depend in strings from their summits.
Dining-room bric-a-brac generally consists of whatever occupies the plate rail an interesting array of plates, pitchers, bowls, jars, cups and saucers, steins, cider mugs, and tankards. And here our cherished ancestral china finds a safe haven from which it surveys its young, modern descendants with benignant toleration.
His notions of art are liable to express themselves in pipes, steins, and other masculine bric-a-brac; but whatever his wills and wonts on the furnishing question, his room must show care and attention.
There were more good-natured cries, and healths proposed, and then Andy and his companions found room at the table. Dunk introduced Andy to several lads. "Oh, you, Dunk, your eyes on us!" Several lads called to him, holding aloft their steins. Dunk hesitated a moment and then, with a quick glance at Andy, let his glass be filled. Rising, he gave the pledge and drank.
"So the whole posse unmounts and ties their horses, and unlimbers their ammunition and equipments, and tiptoes into the house. And I follows, like Delilah when she set the Philip Steins on to Samson. "The leader of the posse shakes Ogden and wakes him up. And then he jumps up, and two more of the reward-hunters grab him.
Said Gretchen: "The one when they haven't the other." A very bright barmaid, thought I. Then I said: "Is this your home?" "Yes," said Gretchen. "I was born here and I have tended the roses for ever so long." "I have heard of Gretchen of the steins, but I never before heard of a Gretchen of the roses." "Herr must have a large store of compliments on hand to begin this early."
There were two of us, so it seemed, only I was stronger, or else my passion did not burn so furiously as his. The apartments occupied by Dan were all a bachelor could wish for. The walls were covered with photographs, original drawings, beer steins, pipes, a slipper here, a fan there, and books and books and books. I felt at home at once.
"In Germany mothers give their babies a sip from their steins before they are weaned ... that's what makes us such a great nation." If I didn't drink, at least the two mates and the sailmaker made up for me ... we had on board many cases of beer stowed away down in the afterhold, where the sails were stored.
So far from dampening anyone’s spirits this little contretemps only seemed to set things off at a livelier pace. They had a brisk ride home, and the wedding feast and the wedding cake were all that could be desired. What went with it was the finest that any of the guests ever tasted before or since, and the champagne was all but served in beer steins.
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