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"What I vote," said Gowan, "is that each bedroom should have a show of its own, ask the others to come as audience, charge admission, and wangle the cash that way." "There'd be some sport in that!" agreed Lilias. "It's great!" declared Dulcie. "You bet it will catch on!" purred Prissie. Gowan's scheme undoubtedly caught on. It was so attractive that there was no resisting it.
I'd wangle a few dollars out of him. My grandfather's answer was a silent, granite smile. " just want to see what you can cajole out of the old man, eh? No, Johnnie I'll leave you to make your way back in the same way you've made your way to Washington ... from all accounts railroad fare is the least of your troubles."
"If it's me and my bag that's the trouble, you don't need to worry. After I've driven you both to the War Office, I can fudge round for a taxi. One can usually wangle one in the neighborhood of Whitehall." Before he had ended, he knew that his guess had missed fire. It wasn't his comfort that was disturbing her. "All right," she said reluctantly. "I suppose there's no other way.
I say, your Prioress never found us out, did she? What about that prize?" "There isn't going to be a prize, and you certainly wouldn't have deserved it! Look here, you'd better wangle yourselves off before it gets about who you are. I should get into a row, not you!" "Would the Prioress kick up rough?" "She'd probably think I'd planned the whole business, and encouraged you to come."
If it is senses, well, then, I know it is the best thing in the World, and a woman of my age can't have everything. I adore Jim! We are going to be married the first moment he can get leave again and I shall 'wangle' him into being a 'red tab' he has fought enough." "And if meanwhile he should get maimed like me what then, Nina?" She actually paled. "Don't be so horrid Nicholas Jim Oh!
"Tuppence" did not take at all kindly to the new order of things; he missed chasing the mice that used to live under the tent boards and other minor attractions of the sort. The draughtiness and civilization of the new huts compared with the "fug" of the tents all combined to give us chills! I had a specially bad one, and managed with great skill to wangle a fortnight's sick leave in Paris.
He told of his wanderings, his arrival at the Concho, of Chance his great wolf-dog, his horse "Pill," and his good friends Bud Snoop and Hi Wangle. Sundown could have easily given Othello himself "cards and spades" in this chance game of hearts and won moving metaphor! in a canter.
She slapped her partner on the back, and commanded, between sobs of mirth: "Elihu stop laughing! I guess we'd best wangle ourselves off!" But the girls had crowded round to examine the details of the costumes. "They're topping!" they approved. "Absolutely A1! Can't think how you did it! Diana, where did you get those togs?" "Sent to Petteridge for them," exulted Diana. "They came in that parcel.
We knew how to "come the old soldier"; we knew how and when to "wangle out" of doing this or that fatigue; we practised the ancient art of "going sick" when we knew a long route march was coming off next day. We knew how to "square" the guard if we came in late, and the others learnt how to dodge church parade. "'E never goes to church parade." "No; 'e was a fly one 'e was." "Wotchermean?"
I shall be all right." "It's my duty. Now what is there that you really can do? Burglary, of course, but it's not respectable. You've tried being a waiter and a prize-fighter and a right-hand man, and none of those seems to be just right. Can't you suggest anything?" Ginger shook his head. "I shall wangle something, I expect." "Yes, but what? It must be something good this time.
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