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It's Teddy!" He stepped aside, and Manchester, entering deliberately, closed the door. Then he sat down dazedly. "He's gone, boys. The Captain's gone." The words came in a stammer through pressed lips. "I wish it had been I," muttered Swipes brokenly, when they were alone again. "It was all my fault." He burst into a wild sobbing.
The great height of the demigod for he stood a fathom and half in his stocking-feet offered a preliminary obstacle to this attack. But here, in the first skirmish of the battle, intellect already began to triumph over matter. By means of a pair of library steps, the injured householder gained a posture of advantage; and, with great swipes of the coal-axe, proceeded to decapitate the brute.
To de coal-cellar fer yours! G'wan! an' off dey goes! An' I gits busy ag'in, swipes de jools, an' chases meself here." Jimmy wiped his eyes. "Have you ever heard of poetic justice, Spike?" he asked. "This is it. But, in this hour of mirth and good-will, we must not forget " Spike interrupted.
That, to them, is the great attraction, apart from the contest between the rival schools. Some of these Olympians have been heard to say that Scaife's innings against weak bowling was no very meritorious performance, although the two "swipes," they admit, were parlous knocks.
"A fine day for the wedding," said the sexton to Swipes, the butler of Sloperton Grange. The aged retainer shook his head sadly. "Alas! there's no trusting in signs!" he continued. "Seventy-five years ago, on a day like this, my young mistress" but he was cut short by the appearance of a stranger. "I would see Sir Edgardo," said the new-comer impatiently.
You may get as royally intoxicated on swipes as on choice wine; win a name for yourself as the husband of such a wife; a name in sporting journals and shilling biographies: quite a revival of the Peerage they have begun to rail at! 'I would not wish to leave you, said Carinthia. 'You have chosen, said Fleetwood.
Embezzlement she should have said, and to one who knew as she did how badly the table of the master was supplied, the suspicion was almost unavoidable. For here she saw in plenteous show, and appetising excellence, a many many of the very things she had vainly craved from Mr. Swipes. And if it was so now in November, what must it have been two months ago?
We called it "swipes," and boys, however small, helped themselves to as much as they liked. Moreover, as soon as the game was over, all who had their house colours might come in and get "swipes" served to them freely through the buttery window. Both practices, I believe, have long since fortunately fallen into desuetude.
It takes a big situation to bring it out. Where did you ever see a child display this quality?" "I've seed it many a time in little dirty-faced swipes," Blister stated. "I've seed exercise-boys so full of class they put the silks on 'em before they can bridle a hoss, 'n' they bawl like you've took away their apple when they lose their first race. You've heard of Hamilton?"
Jim swipes the grub; I build the fires'n help cook'n wipe dishes for Jim when I ain't sick, 'n I mind Miss Kennett's babies right along, she most allers has new ones, 'n she gives me my lunch for doin' it." "Is Mrs. Kennett nice and kind?" "O-h, yes; she's orful busy, yer know, 'n won't stand no foolin'." "Is there a Mr. Kennett?" "Sometimes there is, 'n most allers there ain't."
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