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Still another ancestor of a collateral branch becomes Grand Master of the religious Order of the Teutonic Knights, and this fact induces Master Martin Luther, who was much more of a realist and a time-server and a trimmer than theologians give him credit for, to advise the Hohenzollern Grand Master to secularize his knights, to confiscate the whole Church property of the Order, and to make himself the overlord of Eastern Prussia.
He said Trimmer said Hector Ransom ought to drop Miss Rainey and 'hand her over to Joe Lane, Is that true?" "Yes," I answered. "The beast said that." "There was more," Joe said heavily. "More that im implied might be taken to imply scandal, which I believe Trimmer did not seriously intend but thought thought might be used as an argument with Hector to persuade him to jilt her?" "Yes."
For just then, in place of the steady strain, there were a series of short sharp snatches. "Eel, eel!" cried Dick; and at the end of a few minutes' exciting play, a huge eel was drawn over the side of the boat, tied up in quite a knot, into which it had thrown itself just at the last. "That's better," said Dick, placing the trimmer in the other basket. "I say, Dave, would a fellow like that bite?"
Stooped and lean Johnson, as chalk-white of face as ever, had paunchy and thin-legged Silas Trimmer by the collar, and over Biff Bates' intervening body was trying to rain blows into the center of the circular smile, now flattened to an oval of distress. "Break, Johnson, break!" begged Biff. "Don't put him out till you feed him all he's got coming." Thereupon he succeeded in extracting Mr.
Before him lay a basement hall leading to a kitchen, which, even at that moment, he noticed to be in trimmer condition than is usual where much housework is done, but he saw nothing that bespoke tragedy, or even a break in the ordinary routine of life as observed in houses of like size and pretension. Satisfied that what he sought was not to be found here, he followed the officer upstairs.
The doctor who had been with Van at Queenie's death arrived in the press, got wind of the crisis, and vehemently protested the truth. Simultaneously, the lumberman, Trimmer, drunk, and enjoying what he deemed a joke, hoarsely confided to some sober men the fact that Cayuse had done the murder.
"I guess I could tell him I was off don't know the father after all." "Sounds like a kid's excuse," commented McCoppet. "Like as not he'd take it out of you." The likelihood was so strong that Trimmer visibly paled. "I've got to give him somebody's name," he agreed with alacrity. "Has anyone died around here recent?" "Yes," answered McCoppet with ready mendacity.
Applerod he assigned the task of making a like examination of the Trimmer establishment, and each day felt more like a really-truly business man. He affected the Traders' Club now, formed an entirely new set of acquaintances, and learned to go about the stately rooms of that magnificent business annex with his hat on the back of his head and creases in his brow.
Trimmer came in to see him again, with a roll of drawings under his arm. The drawings displayed the proposed new bridge in elevation and in cross section. They showed the total stretch of altered store-rooms from street to street, and cleverly-drawn perspectives made graphically real that splendid length.
I fear the rogue will get some scent of that story of Ochiltree's but at worst, I have a hard repartee for him on the affair of the abstracted Antigonus I will show you his last epistle and the scroll of my answer egad, it is a trimmer!" So saying, the Antiquary opened a drawer, and began rummaging among a quantity of miscellaneous papers, ancient and modern.
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