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"If she's bought the thingumbob at your own price, why don't you give it her?" asked a fourth. "I'll be hanged if she shall have it!" said Jones, panting for breath. He was by no means deficient in spirit on such an occasion as this. "And it's my belief you will be hanged," said Miss Biles, who was still working away at his back.
Therefore if you don't and I don't," Maisie concluded, "don't you think that when I see him this evening I had better just tell him we don't and ask him why in the world HE should?" The child, however, was not destined to enjoy much of Sir Claude at the "thingumbob," which took for them a very different turn indeed. On the spot Mrs.
Lawn-tennis, you know, and dinners, and what a bad match Ethel Thingumbob has made. But you talk another kind of slang; I dare say it doesn't mean much; you know you're not working at anything very much more serious than we are; still it's a novelty. When we go to a coursing meeting, we're all on the hounds; but you're on the hare, and that's so delightfully original.
"Mr, What's-his-name, have the goodness to what-do-ye-call-'em, the, the thingumbob." "Ay, ay, my lord," said I. "Afterguard! haul taut the weather main-brace." This was exactly what he meant. He was very particular and captious when not properly addressed.
Now I'm primed. Blenkinsopp major I remember something about, for he's one of the worst and most hopelessly stupid boys in the whole school I've caned him frequently this term, and that keeps a boy green in one's memory; but Blenkinsopp minor, Cyril Anastasius Guy Thingumbob Whatyoumaycallit, I don't remember HIM a bit.
The only thing vexes me," added he, with an intense air of mortification, "is that the worst scoundrel of the lot got clear off; that is a pity a downright pity." "Make your mind easy," replied Mr. Miles calmly, "he won't escape; we shall have him before the day is out." "Will you, sir? that is right but how?" "The honorable thingumbob, Tom Yates's friend, put us up to it. Robinson sighed.
When I saw those canvases, I felt the old Adam in me thirsting for expression. Before all I am an artist! I made a bargain with the old Parley-vous a pair of my young officer's boots for two canvases and the use of his paints. Agreed. On the one I did a ploughman wending his weary thingumbob home you know.
And in thingumbob retirement by the something-or-other stream you hit on the notion of splicing the lovely Lessie Lavigne. Poetry, by the Living Tinker!" "Do you want to hear how I came to cut my own throat?" snarls the boy, with white, haggard anger alternating with red misery and shame in his young, handsome face; "because if you do, leave off playing the funny clown and listen."
Oh, Sanford, do let me go! A man is going to will another man blindfolded, you know to find a thingumbob that he hid nobody knows where and he can't see a thing, and he doesn't know anybody and the guide man is Mr.
"Suppose she 'll wear a top-knot and a thingumbob, like every one else; and however shall I know her? Too bad of Fan to make me come alone!" thought Tom, as he stood watching the crowd stream through the depot, and feeling rather daunted at the array of young ladies who passed. As none of them seemed looking for any one, he did not accost them, but eyed each new batch with the air of a martyr.
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