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I've dealt with Samuels for three-four years." "Yes, sir; but you have never yet paid any account; and I believe I am right in saying that this opal is not the first thing coming from our house that has been pledged I can't say you did it on the other occasions." "You had better not," rejoined Algernon. He broke an unpleasant silence by asking, "What further?" "My master has sent you his bill."
Galloway whether Jenkins was a little after or a little before his time; but on this particular morning he had especial need of him, and had come himself to the office unusually early. One-two, three-four! chimed the quarters of the cathedral. "There it goes half-past nine!" ejaculated Mr. Galloway. "What does Jenkins mean by it? He knew he was wanted early."
Had she told Helen, too, that Ned Hynes what was he to my betrothed? "Can't you rest somewhere and just show for the ceremony?" I said, "Nelly, you're not strong." "There's not a place big enough for a mouse. But did you mean it? Do I really look well to-night? Am I just as beautiful as I was three-four months ago, or have I " "Oh, do slip out and 'phone the Star!
I cobbled her up next mornin' when the brook shrinked. 'An' where did you find the bridge? Some fur down-stream, didn't ye? 'Just where she allus was. She hadn't shifted but very little. The brook had gulled out the bank a piece under one eend o' the plank, so's she was liable to tilt ye sideways if you wasn't careful. But I pooked three-four bricks under her, an' she was all plumb again.
He'd never take a second mortgage." "Naw, naw, that ain't gonna be the way of it a-tall. It will be fixed so's Old Salt's mortgage won't go into effect till the first one's paid off." "But then till the first one is paid off maybe it will be three-four days Old Salt's five thousand will be unsecured." "It won't be unsecured. It won't go out of Saltoun's hands. He'll pay off the mortgage himself."
An' I've seen the time myself when I was hi-mighty glad I'd l'arned to count stitches. "Land sakes! Some o' them whalin' v'y'ges lasted three-four years. Cap'n Am'zon was in the old bark Neptune's Daughter when she was caught in the ice and drifted pretty average close't to the south pole. "You know," said Cap'n Abe reflectively, "the Antarctic regions ain't like the Arctic. 'Cause why?
At its best it is a dancing anecdote, a story told in a charming variety of steps and gestures. It is intoxicating, rude, humorous, poetic, above all melancholy. When he is happiest he sings his saddest, does the Pole. Hence his predilection for minor modes. The Mazurka is in three-four or three-eight time. Sometimes the accent is dotted, but this is by no means absolute.
He has played second alto in the band for thirty-five years without a promotion, and is by all odds the worst player I ever saw, being only entirely at home in the key of C; and he can't play three-four time to save his soul. But his devotion is marvelous. He is always the first man down to practice.
"A good chance to get yoreself lynched. Shore. It was all that." "Say, I'd like to know where you come in, stranger. Jack never said anything to me about any feller yore size." "Jack is like me. He ain't tellin' all he knows. And while we're talking about Jack, I'll tell you something. And that's to keep away from Farewell for three-four days." "Why for?" "So's to give Jack a chance to cool off.
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