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"Bring us," I said, "a plain omelet and one dish of prunes." I waited till Peter Girofla translated this into French and then I added, "And on the side, please, two glasses of water and three toothpicks. Have the prunes fricasseed, wash the water on both corners, and bring the toothpicks rare." The waiter rushed away and all around us we could hear money talking to itself.
The toothpicks had to be asked for. All three Thropps wanted them. While Thropp was fishing in his pocket for a quarter, and finding only half a dollar which he did not want to reveal, the waiter placed before him a closely written manuscript, face down, with a lead-pencil on top of it. "What's this?" said Thropp. "Will you please to sign your name and room number, sir?" the waiter suggested.
He thought that the most prudent course to pursue would be to end at once so dangerous a debate, and for this purpose he addressed a question to Senor Don Cayetano when the latter, shaking off the drowsiness which had overcome him after the dessert, offered the guests the indispensable toothpicks stuck in a china peacock with outspread tail.
This plant is indeed one of the most remarkable of the Echinocactuses, owing to the size and number of its spines which are 3 in. long, almost as firm as steel, and are used by the Mexicans as toothpicks and to the gigantic size and great weight of the stem.
If he owns three feet of ground, enough to grow ten cabbages, or a few trees to slice into toothpicks, the fellow begins to talk of consolidated property, taxes, revenues, indemnities, a whole lot of stuff, and I have wasted my time and breath on patriotism. It's a bad business! Candidly, the 'Movement' does not move. I have written to the directors and told them so.
I'm not going to be shot down without a white man's chance." "You'll carry a gun, my son," said Sampson, "when we give it to you and then it won't be to shoot Mr. Denman. It's on your account, remember, that we're giving him a gun. Now, Mr. Denman, where are the pistols and toothpicks?" "The pistols are in my room, the cutlasses in the room opposite. You have the keys."
When I have done my worst, I pile bones an' olive seeds an' peelin's all over them articles of nourishment, stick toothpicks into 'em, an' havin' offered 'em what other indignities occur to me, I leave the place." Dextry and the girl were leaning over the stern-rail, chatting idly in the darkness. It was the second night out and the ship lay dead in the ice-pack.
Which shows what one shell can do, one of three which burst not far away at the same time. In time, the shells would get all the trees; make them into chips and splinters and toothpicks. "I'd rather that it would hit a tree-trunk than my trunk," said L . "But you would not have got it as badly as the tree," said the officer reassuringly.
Where the odorous avenues of lilacs stretched along, affording bouquets for maman and the children and toothpicks for ferocious young warriors from the garrisons, are odious lengths of wall. Everything is changed, and from the gardens the grisettes of Alfred de Musset are with sighing sent. Their haunts are laboratories now, and the Ile d'Amour is a mayor's office.
This is a more serious charge than Molly's assertion that they all use toothpicks." "I repeat that I do not believe there is an honest man in that Capitol." "Do you know this? Have you investigated the life of every man in the Senate and the House?" "What a good district attorney you would make!" "You are talking a lot of copybook platitudes with which you have allowed your mind to stagnate.
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