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From the second step the night clerk looked down at her as though she were a specimen that ought to be pinned on the corks at once, and he said loudly, "No, ma'am. Neither of 'em. Got no rooms vacant with bawth, or bath either! Not but what we got 'em in the house. This is an up-to-date place. But one of 'm's took, and the other has kind of been out of order, the last three-four months."
But he did not suffer his composure to be put out by it: he drilled us in the positions and steps in a manner the most precise; and, when he had brought us far enough to dance a minuet, he played for us something easily intelligible in three-four time, on a /flute-douce/, and we moved to it as well as we could.
In the monotonous three-four time beat of the wheels he could conjure up her voice even the colonial trick of clipping the final "r" in words ending with that letter as to which he had often rallied her, while secretly liking it for this, like a touch of the brogue, can be winsome enough when uttered by pretty lips.
"I wonder," Rip's eyes were narrowed slits as he leaned back against the wall. "Look at the facts. The Survey ship which charted Sargol they were dirt-side there about three-four months. Yet they gave it a clean bill of health and put it up for trading rights auction. Then Cam bought those rights he made at least two trips in and out before he was blasted on Limbo.
I noticed that he looked gaunt, and I found a bitter satisfaction in the thought that, perhaps, in Helen's "three-four months" he had not seen, until that night, either of the women with whose lives his own had been entangled. "Just one more," begged Kitty, when Helen stopped. "You're my only hope; do sing, Helen." Dropping the mandolin, Helen began without accompaniment "The King of Thule:"
Then, in three-four weeks you can kick Truax & Fein in the face and beat it. Say, girlie, that's fine! Say, tell you what I'll do. Let's have a little party to celebrate. I'll chase out and rush a growler of beer and some wienies " "No! I've got to go out again." "Can't you stop just long enough to have a little celebration? I I been kind of lonely last few days, little sister.
"You get out of here with your Ennis!" she cried. "I wouldn't wouldn't marry him if he was the last man on earth. I I just despise him!" "And that's real lucky for ye," snickered the man. "I heard him say lemme see yes, 'bout three-four days ago, as he wasn't nowise partial ter carrots. It's a wegetable as he couldn't never bear the sight of."
"Nice work," Satan interjected from time to time, with smooth irony. "Sure. Go ahead. Like to hear your plans." McGarver broke in: "Cut that out, Marvin. You're a `Satan' all right. Quit your kidding the little man. He's all right. And he done fine on the job last three-four days." Lying on his mattress, Bill stared at the network of the ratlines against the brilliant sky.
There are you, growin' middle-aged and not married to some good-'earted chap as 'd give you three-four children I could pet in me old age. Wodjer want to go fallin' in love with some chap as 'as got a wife already? I know your principles. There's iron in yer blood, same as there is in that proud priest, your father. I know you'd break your 'eart sooner 'n have a good time with the professor. My!
I reckon when you said it she got to seein' a picture of one of the young fellows gunnin' their uncle." "One of them. You just said James wasn't with her." "No, he come first. Maybe three-four minutes before the others." "What time did he reach the Paradox?" "It might 'a' been ten or maybe only five minutes after we left yore uncle's room.
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