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"Think you, sir," asked Washington, gravely, "I have no occasion for my aides, that you make such a request?" Jack flushed with mortification and temper. "I supposed that, on the march, you could spare " "I can, my boy," interrupted the commander-in-chief with a change of manner, "and was but putting off a take-in on you.
'It is their thick skins, muttered she; 'at least so the Myttons said; but, indeed, I did not mean to be so personal as it was thought. 'But tell me. Why did you not get on with Mesa? 'That was a regular take-in. Not to tell one! When I began my German class, she put me out with useless explanations. 'What kind of explanations?
"Well, have you guessed it?" "Guessed it!" I echo, recovering my gravity. "Not I! my first is the first of all my second has no second my whole, I cannot tell it you! I do not believe it is a riddle at all! it is a hoax a take-in, like 'Why does a miller wear a white hat?" "It is nothing of the kind," he answers, looking thoroughly annoyed. "Must I tell you the answer?"
And he gave us six bottles of port wine, because he thought that would be better for the poor girl who had the baby than rum or sherry or even sparkling champagne. We were afraid to send the hamper by Carter Pat. for fear they should think it was another Avenging Take-in. And that was one reason why we took it ourselves in a cab.
Your prowess has proved your profession." "Reverend sir," said Kenelm, with his unutterable seriousness of aspect, "I am on my travels in search of truth and in flight from shams, but so great a take-in as myself I have not yet encountered. Remember me in your prayers. I am not an American; I am not a prize-fighter.
"As for them French hats and the way they have of rowing, they act it all for a take-in. Just let a six-pound shot in among 'em, and see how they'll throw off their French airs and take to their English schooling." "I'll not do that; for we might injure a friend. What are those fellows in the felucca about now?"
"We all have our burdens," said Gentleman Waife, as Sir Isaac took up the bundle and stalked on, placid and refreshed. The nomad, entering into civilized life, adopts its arts, shaves his poodle, and puts on a black coat. Hints at the process by which a Cast-off exalts himself into a Take-in.
Tidger read it through hastily, and then snatching the baby from her lap, held it out with both arms to her husband, and jumping up, kissed her sister heartily, patting her on the back in her excitement until she coughed with the pain of it. "You don't think it's a take-in, Polly?" she inquired. "Take-in?" said her sister; "of course it ain't. Lawyers don't play jokes; their time's too valuable.
Branghton, "that three shillings was an exorbitant price for a place in the gallery: but as we'd been asked so much at the other doors, why I paid it without many words; but, then, to be sure, thinks I, it can never be like any other gallery, we shall see some crinkum-crankum or other for our money; but I find it's as arrant a take-in as ever I met with."
What a devil of a take-in that is, ain't it? And he dove down stairs like a Newfoundland dog into a pond arter a stone, and out of sight in no time. "Now, you are as like Rufe, as two peas, Squire. You want to say, you was to Liverpool, but you don't want to see nothin'. "Waiter." "Sir." "Is this Liverpool, I see out of the Winder?" "Yes, sir." "Guess I have seen Liverpool then.
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