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"And so Master Stanhope came seeking the bird that had flown," twitted Radisson's mother-in-law. "Faugh faugh to have had the bird in his hand and to let it go! But ta-ta!" she laughed, tapping my arm with her fan, "some one else is here who keeps asking and asking for Master Stanhope. Boy," she ordered, "tell thy master's guest to come down!"
If you succeed it will be no end of a feather in your cap, but if you fail," he concluded the sentence with a pantomimic gesture expressive of strangulation. "But there," he added, "I've no fear of that; I never saw such a fellow as you for pulling through; good-bye, old boy; ta-ta; `be sure you write."
I left my niece, walked round the Churchyard as fast as I could, trying to make people believe I was busy, and just as I came to Doctors Commons I stumbled against Larkins, who used to travel for Jackman and Larkins. 'Hullo, Whittaker! said he, 'haven't seen you since you left. Lucky dog! Wish I could do the same. Ta-ta; can't stop. A year ago Mr.
"You bet it's 'a pair' that will take your 'two knaves, you and your Lord Brownstone," returned Golly, dropping a mock courtesy. "Ta-ta; I'm going on the stage." She went first into a tobacconist's and sold cigarettes. Sometimes she suffered from actual want, and ate fried fish. "Do you know how nice fried fish tastes in London, you on 'the Oilan'?" she wrote gayly.
"Ah, Pierre, you have done finely for us all!" And there oozed over my Lady Kirke's countenance as fine a satisfaction as ever radiated from the face of a sweating cook. "How?" asks Pierre Radisson, pursing his lips. "Sir John hath dined twice with His Royal Highness " "The Duke is Governor of the Company, and Sir John is a director." "Ta-ta, now there you go, Pierre!" smirks my lady.
When I come back from abroad, I'm going to commence to play this game in a manner that'll rather astonish you, and a certain other person. Ta-ta, guv'nor." Mr. Benjamin Levy was a smart young man, but he had a narrow escape that afternoon, for as he was sauntering up and down the platform at Waterloo, whom should he see within a dozen yards of him but Mr. Maddison and Miss Thurwell.
He changed his lodgings for a third time, and, much surprised at his wife's continued silence, sought out a cousin of hers named Joe Pett, and poured his troubles into that gentleman's reluctant ear. "If she was to ask me to take her back," he concluded, "I'm not sure, mind you, that I wouldn't do so." "It does you credit," said Mr. Pett. "Well, ta-ta; I must be off."
There is something else at the back of it all, which I can only see very dimly yet, but which will come as a crasher, I can tell you, when it does come. At present I won't say anything about this, only keep your eyes open and be prepared. Ta-ta! "Your obedient son, "BEN. "P.S. Don't worry about Xs. They won't come out of your pocket in the long run, I can tell you. Wednesday evening.
'Pretty! exclaimed the composer scornfully. 'It's a good deal more than that, and you know it. I don't care there's somebody else feels deuced proud of me, and good reason too. Well, ta-ta! There are disadvantages in associating with people whose every word, as likely as not, may be an insidious falsehood.
"Because I say so that's enough, ain't it?" "I say Polly " "I've told you you're not to say 'Polly," she interrupted archly. "You're awfully good, you know but I wish " "What? Never mind; tell me next time. Ta-ta!" She ran off, and Christopher had no heart to detain her. For five minutes he hung over the parapet at Westminster, watching the black flood and asking what was the use of life.
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