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'He had quarrelled with his wife at that time and had sent her away from Nobble. Mrs. Smith was then living at Nobble, and Crinkett knew more about her than I did. She was mad after gold, and it was with Crinkett she was working. I gave her a lot of shares in another mine to leave me. 'What mine? 'The Old Stick-in-the-Mud they called it.
Henry, watching their departure, missed an easy serve, and endured the reproaches of his partner. "Rutley, I want the key of the billiard-room. Rutley, get it at once." "I think I know where it was put last," said the butler. They went up the steps, and waited until Rutley came. Jim Langham called him a slow-coach, a tortoise, a stick-in-the-mud, and a few other names.
That is the only real cowardice, I think especially as I am going to do it " And later she said, belligerently: "If I had been a man I could have at least assassinated somebody who was prominent. I do wish Rudolph was not such a stick-in-the-mud. And I wish I liked Rudolph better. But on the whole I prefer the physical coward to the moral one.
Mr Fitzwalker Tookey looked very grave and high-minded as he made the assertion. "But there's nothing of that kind. It's all open sailing. Now, what are we to live upon, just for a beginning?" "You have means out there." "Not as things are at present, I am sorry to say. To tell the truth, my third share of the old Stick-in-the-Mud is gone.
He was a generous, kindly old man, but he suffered from the evil repute of some shortsighted neighbors. "If I gave up all I had in the world and went to the almshouse myself, they would still damn me for a landlord," he said, desperately one day. "But I never thought Mike Bogan would throw up his good chances. I suppose some worthless fellow called him stick-in-the-mud and off he must go."
That's easy enough," said Wilton, who had never found any difficulty in being left behind, or in being condemned to the brig. "We must make a sure thing of it next time; but it won't do to run away with a boat again. Hush up! There comes that old stick-in-the-mud from the Josephine," added Perth, lowering his voice to a whisper. The gentleman thus discourteously alluded to was Mr.
"You'll show me nothing," cried Mazeroux, hanging on to his companion's arm. "You shan't touch the man." "One would think he was your mother!" "Come, Chief." "But, you stick-in-the-mud of an honest man," shouted Don Luis, angrily, "if we let this opportunity slip shall we ever find another?" "Easily. He's going home. I'll inform the commissary of police.
"But what's the other piece of good news that Miss Stick-in-the-mud has for you?" "Oh, I quite forgot. Where is it?" Her brother stooped and picked the fallen letter from the floor. "Thank you. Um-um-um-um-um. Oh, yes, 'Piece of good news for you. I write at once so that you may make your plans accordingly. I told you in my last letter, did I not, of my sister-in-law's sudden death?
"Why, really, now that you make me think of it, I believe I should like it amazingly, and I could leave my niece with Lady Lady Stick-in-the-mud; what the deuce is her name? The wife of the Chief Justice, you know. You ought to know, really I never remember names much;" he jerked out his sentences irately. "Certainly, Lady Smith-Tompkins, you mean.
At this point of the conversation, Mr Tookey entered the hall-door, and some fashion of introduction took place between the two strangers. John Gordon led the way into a private room, and the two others followed him. "Here's a gentleman anxious to buy my shares, Tookey," said Gordon. "What! the whole lot of the old Stick-in-the-Mud? He'll have to shell down some money in order to do that!
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