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He was just the man for cross-examination, I saw at a glance a fancy witness, and, I believe, a Welshman. As he was a Christian warrior, I had to find out the weak places in his armour. But little he knew of courts of law and the penetrating art of cross-examination, which could make a hole in the triple-plated coat of fraud, hypocrisy, and cunning. I was in no such panoply.
I didn't waste much time except to throw on a few clothes; but, at that, I finds Auntie scrabblin' out ahead of me and Captain Killam already on deck. She's a picturesque old girl, Auntie, in a lavender and white kimono and a boudoir cap to match; and Rupert, in blue trousers and a pajama top, hardly looks like a triple-plated hero.
I was assured, years ago, that it would wear off and betray the brass underneath; but I must have been triple-plated. I have had rubs enough to wear out a wash-board, yet there doesn't a bit of brass come to the surface yet. Beauty may be only skin-deep; modesty, like mine, pervades the grain.
Later, he locked the door, pulled the chair over near a window from which he got a good view of the frowning butte at the edge of the level and stared out, filled with a sensation of complete disgust. "Hell," he said, after a time, "I'm sure a triple-plated boxhead, an' no mistake!" Sanderson did not sleep.
For the exceedingly moderate outlay of one lira Italian or twenty cents American I secured this combination, to wit, as follows: In the background old Vesuvius, like a wicked, fallen angel, wearing his plumy, fumy halo of sulphurous hell-smoke; in the middle distance the Bay of Naples, each larcenous wave-crest in it triple-plated with silvern glory pilfered from a splendid moon; on the left the riding lights of a visiting squadron of American warships; on the right the myriad slanted sails of the coral-fishers' boats, beating out toward Capri, with the curlew-calls of the fishermen floating back in shrill snatches to meet a jangle of bell and bugle from the fleet; in the immediate foreground a competent and accomplished family troupe of six Neapolitan troubadours men, women and children some of them playing guitars and all six of them, with fine mellow voices and tremendous dramatic effect, singing the words being Italian but the air good American John Brown's Body Lies a-Moldering in the Grave!
The whole truth flashed upon him: Envious ones had slandered him at home, as a coward. He walked onward in a flurry of rage. The thought that he had done anything to deserve criticism could not obtrude itself between the joints of his triple-plated armor of self-esteem. A swelling contempt for his village critics flushed his heart.
You'll notice the safe is strongly made, it's air- tight, fire-proof, the outer casing is of triple-plated drill- proof steel, the contents are valuable to me! and devilish dangerous, I'd pity the thief who, in his innocent ignorance, broke in to steal.
Norman is getting a divorce the decree absolute will be granted in March next. He wants me to marry him." "Will you?" Dolly looked up to meet MacRae's wondering stare. She nodded. "You're a triple-plated fool," he said roughly. "I don't know," she replied thoughtfully. "Norman certainly has been. Perhaps I am too. We should get on a pair of fools together."
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