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"Lord, man!" said Mahooley. "Don't you see me here twiddling my thumbs. What for should I hire anybody? To twiddle 'em for me, maybe." "You'll have a crowd here soon," persisted Sam. "Four men on their way in to take up land, and others following. There's a surveying gang coming up the river, too." "Moreover, you ain't got good sense," Mahooley went on.
Yet, angry and disgusted as I was, there was nothing for me to do except to swallow the humiliation, walk in, and twiddle my thumbs until the boorish lord of the manor waked to greet his invited guest. "I suppose I may enter," I said, sarcastically.
He had not been treated to much affection of late. His head drooped lower he began to twiddle the fob on his watch chain. "Won't you?" persisted Aggie. Jimmy studied the toes of his boots. "Won't you?" she repeated, and her soft eyelashes just brushed the tip of his retrousee nose. Jimmy's head was now wagging from side to side.
"My dear, I'm an old maid, I know, but you're not. And if you think for a moment that I'm going to sit here and twiddle my thumbs while there's a nice-looking bachelor in the next house, you're very much mistaken. Dear knows, Eve, I love Eden Village from end to end, but I never heard of an Eden yet that wasn't better for having a man in it!" "You're right," sighed Eve.
"Will anyone offer me a dollar for this unique figure?" "Leap at it, old top," said Reggie van Tuyl. "Twiddle, dear boy, twiddle! A dollar's reasonable." Archie twiddled. "One dollar I am offered," said the high-priest, bitterly. "One gentleman here is not afraid to take a chance. One gentleman here knows a good thing when he sees one."
Lettin' sech a story as this git all over town. By jiminy! if I was Mr. Haley, I'd sue ye!" "But what are we goin' ter do, Jason?" demanded Cross Moore. "Sit here an' twiddle our thumbs, and let that feller 't owns the coins come down on us for their value?" "You'll have to make good to him anyway," said Mr. Day, bluntly. "You four air responserble." "Hi tunket!" exploded Joe Pellet.
"Whatta you going to do Christmas Eve? Sit in your two-by-four and twiddle your thumbs?" Immediate sobs rose in her throat. "Lord!" she said, "I dun'no'! I dun'no'!" He set up the jangling again. "It's Christmas Eve, Marj." "That's right, rub it in," and looked away from him. "Come, Marj, don't leave me high and dry like this. Come, I'll blow you to a little supper, kiddo.
I twiddle your little good Andrew to assert it for us twenty times a day. Of all the dear little manageable men! It does you infinite credit that you respect him as you do. What would have become of me I do not know. 'P.S. I said two shawls a black and a white. The black not so costly very well. And so delicate of him to think of the mourning! But the white, my dear, must be family must!
I'm old Grayback from 'way back in Mervo. See! I've only to twiddle my fingers and there'll be a revolution and you for the Down-and-Out Club. Don't you forget it, sonnie." John shrugged his shoulders. "I've said all I have to say. You've had your notice to quit. After to-night the Casino is closed." "But don't I tell you the people won't stand for it?" "That's for them to decide.
She who might have married an Ambassador and queened it in Petersburg with the best of 'em she's in a whitewashed Convent, superintending the education of Dutch and Afrikander schoolgirls in Greek, Latin, French, Algebra and Mathematics, calisthenics, needlework, the torture of the piano, and the twiddle of the globes. He has something to answer for, that old crony of yours!"
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